>>211961154 No, that's always been the norm unless you were malnourished.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:10:39 PM No.211961380
>>211960636 (OP) Because you where supposed to be 14 while watching it. Which denounces an epidemic of arrested development, because there's still 40-50 years old discussing who's best girl. Andit's obviously Misato.
>>211961380 >there's still 40-50 years old discussing who's best girl. Fuck, I'm in that age range. No discussion needed to recognize Rei as best, though. You dumb cunts need to stop fighting it. >>211962604 You can leave now. Both/tv/ and the living world.
>>211960636 (OP) Sounds like a personal problem, you may be self inserting as Shinji. They’re all extremely damaged child soldiers, the one you’re supposed to lust over is Misato
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:44:24 PM No.211967365
>>211961025 >>211961154 To clarify, 10 years is the average for girls, not boys. That's why all girls were taller than all boys in the last years of middle school. That's also why they end puberty at 15-16 while men end it at 17-18.
>>211960636 (OP) I watched this show, and I liked it, very well written and it definitely stands above anime as a work of art. My main problem that I never understood was how it criticizes Shinji for seeking external validation from the adult figures in his life. Like 14 year old kids should not be chastised for enjoying the approval/praise of a maternal or paternal figure. But this is the central conceit of the show. Shinji wants external validation but he needs internal validation. Maybe this is a weird Jap thing I can't understand but it always bothered me. Its especially bizarre to me because a lot of the problems Shinji & Asuka experience are simply due to them being 14 years old. Especially Asuka.
>>211967833 Its not just them being young, both are the way they are because their parents abandoned them. Their problems aren't even their own fault but the show wants to put the onus on them and not the adults that fucked them up and continue to traumatise them.
>>211960636 (OP) It doesn’t. It’s told from the perspective of a 14-year-old and explores his anxieties and insecurities, part of which is his emerging sexuality and how it applies to his those around him.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 6:08:05 PM No.211968039
>>211964933 >society expects you to not find that sexually attractive
>>211967960 This. >”Shinji, all of these world threatening disasters are my doing but YOU are a bad person having doubts and insecurities even though you are a 14 year old boy and I’m not even going to attempt to guide you.” The “Shinji is pathetic” claim is tired and misguided. Although I do think the “get in the robot” meme is funny.
>>211968299 That was my point in this post >>211967833 The central conceit of the show chastises Shinji for seeking external validation in Misato and his father. Which is bizarre because he was an abandoned 14 year old. His character arc is obtaining internal validation, but I don't see anything wrong with an abandoned 14 year old getting external validation for doing well from a mother figure, like Misato.
>>211973519 Based Pen Pen. The only character that had his shit together.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:53:31 PM No.211976138
>>211971015 That is the central point of the show. Shinji wants external validation but needs internal validation. I'm sorry your a moron with low reading comprehension.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:56:32 PM No.211976276
>>211961380 That was not the central conceit of the show at all. Your mind is poisoned by the god awful rebuilds lmao.
>>211966496 >The people who made this were 40 year old Otakus Of course they were you dumb shit, should 14 year olds be making shows for 14 year olds?
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 10:04:00 PM No.211976601
>>211967833 >>211968987 Absolutely every adult in the show is fucked up. Gendo is fucked up, Misato is fucked up, Akagi is fucked up, Fuyutsuki is fucked up, Kaji is fucked up. It's natural for Shinji, a 14 year old boy, to seek validation from the adults around him, but when all of them range from womanchildren to nihilistic madmen it becomes more important for him to be able to live without depending on the validation of such people.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 10:06:11 PM No.211976681
>>211960636 (OP) Anno is a free mason (hidden), and the whole manga / show is about what the masons believe the solution to everything is.
>>211973890 Weird... that name- Asura came into my mind yesterday, seemingly unprompted, I never even played it but thought of this game. Jung was right about synchronicity.
>>211976681 To be fair, SEELE was doing their best to escape the cycle of death and rebirth and they achieved it in the original TV ending. End of Eva is the neutral ending where the angels reset the world again with Shinji and Asuka as Adam and Eve. The rebuild is the bad ending where it's basically just life as we know it.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 11:41:46 PM No.211980366
It's overrated and not deep at all. They made the story up as they went along
>>211980895 >Rebuilds fucking sucked. I don't even remember them IIRC First one is just the same as the tv show but worse, second one only gets interesting when it splits from the tv show by having a different climax to an angel fight third one is mostly original stuff but worse fourth one is like a new end of evangelion, which is neat but overall still worse.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 1:16:39 AM No.211984248
Rebuilds are great because they made me get over evangelion and get on with my life. Haven't thought about it for years until I saw this thread
>>211985606 The original was a captivating, transcendental, once in a lifetime experience. Not easily forgotten. The Rebuilds helped diminish that strong memory until it was lost like tears in rain. Which is what I said, retard.
>>211960636 (OP) Saw this is currently on netflix. Is it a good adaptation/format to watch the show? I've never seen the series before and I'm curious. I just don't want to be missing anything if the netflix dub is weird or something.
>>211989286 For some reason isekais make you trans and you immediately dress up as your mom when you were 11. Scientists are still studying the exact cause.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 3:35:43 AM No.211989626
I'm a 38 year old black guy from Montana and I know Rei is best girl.