Good discussion in last thread. Keep it going.

For posterity and in case things like reverse image search do not work, give due credit to those who create Rei's images by indicating author and/or source if known.

Discussion always welcome, but offer an image, if available.

>Previous thread:
>>4413123

>General archive:
https://pastebin.com/nzPXrU5D

Apologies also for the slow creation of a new thread. I have been busy, but read the discussion from last time since I left.

>>4416512
We must recall that something has long been off about Anno --- whom I often think of as a very successful fool who doesn't understand what he created --- and it seems he's always been uncomfortable with how Eva was received, hence the wholly unnecessary Rebuilds and their bungling of Rei and the story in general.

>>4416542
>>4416609
Something I remind myself often. Rei was the strong one, and we honour Rei in being strong and seeking strength, mentally and physically. It is a waste of life to not do so otherwise --- even if we should not be here.

>>4417031
A horrible realization when I actually made the connection.

>>4417423
...et super hanc petram aedificabimus ecclesiam nostram.

>>4417448
I have seen that video. It's a nice one, even if it fakes being older than it is. Music is part of the soul's resolution, and we all have days we need music.

>>4418812
>>4418813
Hope you're doing well. Life's a cruel mother, but a good teacher. It all really comes down to interpretation. Even Anno, the creator of EVA, had changed his outlook on life after his magnum opus. Trying to change it's form by writing a sequel. Rebuilds are Anno's Evangelion. His reinterpretation of the meaning that Evangelion originally held. He is not God. He's just a man like any other trying to mimic God. Something more akin to the devil. Like an ape trying to mimic man. The irony, Rebuilds came after NGE yet pale in comparison. They are not the successor of NGE, but a half-assed sect.

Hi /c/ute Rei thread

>>4418813
Why did Anno decide to destroy Eva? When i first watched 3.33 i almost cried because of how bad it was.

>>4419055
Earthquake

>>4419041
Don't touch Rei

>>4419041
Bad touch

>>4419055

> Why did Anno decide to destroy Eva?

Because he realized that he was the asshole the whole time. He was angry at the Asuka/Rei fandom because he intended his characters to be unlikable. But like the boomer he is, he didn't understand that his customer is buying escapism.

He only realized after the fact that he'd done it to himself from the start. His audience was NEVER going to reject Rei for being an emotionally stunted Oedipal fuck doll, nor Asuka for being a bitchy, traumatized tsundere.

It was always going to be Shinji that caught the audience's wrath.

Anno didn't realize that until well after End of Eva.

This scene right here...

Is Anno admitting to himself, that if Evangelion had been as forgettable as Aquarion or RahXephon, if he'd stuck to the formula, none of the Asuka/Rei fandom would have happened.

He did it to himself, and that's what really hurts.

>>4419216
I don't know who you are, but you are not welcome here, especially since you are incorrect about lumping in Reifags with Asuniggers. Anno himself distinguished them, and in doing so revealed his bias wholly against Rei, as shown in just the last thread alone. He has demonstrated a remarkable capability to misunderstand his own creation, over which be lost ownership when he released it publicly. The Rebuilds further are just as much a cash grab as they are him wishing to 'revisit' Eva, which did not need to happen.

>>4419216 #
I don't know who you are, but you are not welcome here, especially since you are incorrect about lumping in Reifags with Asuniggers. Anno himself distinguished them, and in doing so revealed his bias wholly against Rei, as shown in just the last thread alone. He has demonstrated a remarkable capability to misunderstand his own creation, over which he lost ownership when he released it publicly. The Rebuilds further are just as much a cash grab as they are him wishing to 'revisit' Eva, which did not need to happen.

>>4419216
You are incorrect about lumping in Reifags with Asuniggers. Anno himself distinguished them, and in doing so revealed his bias wholly against Rei, as shown in just the last thread alone. He has demonstrated a remarkable capability to misunderstand his own creation, over which he lost ownership when he released it publicly. The Rebuilds further are just as much a cash grab as they are him wishing to 'revisit' Eva, which did not need to happen. Your vulgar speech also betrays a disposition which is not suitable or desirable here. While we can agree that Anno is at fault, I do not know you.

>>4419221
Talking in these threads attracts both desirable and undesirable duscussion seekers. Undesirables like:
>>4419216
>>4419218
Who post unrelated crap like that when they instead could say all that while using Rei pics. It would be alright if everyone simply followed the base rule about posting here. Post with a Rei picture. Also, why did >>4419220 get deleted? And why are those posts still here?

>>4419225
The deletion was me making my own edit, as I wished to rephrase part of my post. No worries about that. Though yes, this being a public board does necessarily involve these things, you are reight.

>>4419226
>The deletion was me making my own edit, as I wished to rephrase part of my post.
I see, I thought the jannies got to you. Sometimes the leave stuff like >>4413138 just to smear these threads that are ultimately immortalized in the archives.
>you are reight.
As are you.

>>4419218
What kind of dialogue is that? Is that real or a joke? Looks like a lowkey porn

>>4419241
Nah, just Anno's way of saying "Fuck you" to the fans.

when it reins it pours

Farmer Rei is cute.

>>4419221
Watch your language.

>you are a teenager again
>you are going to school
>you step on REI AYANAMI
>you RUIN her bento
How do you apologize?

>>4419575
Geez forgot pic

>>4419575
>you step on REI AYANAMI
How? Am I inside of an Evangelion?

>>4419579
No, you are in the alternative universe where Rei is a schoolgirl running to not be late for school

>>4419621
Yeah I got that. What I don't get is how I could possibly step on her. Is she laying down on the ground? You don't just step on a running person.

I love Rei gatekeeps low iq people

>>4419686
How does she gatekeep them?