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>>212509692 (OP)
>TUMBLING DOWN
That'll be Superman's box office in 1 week.

yes I fucked up the spoiler don’t bully me

>>212509692 (OP)
>what the fuck did I just watch
the best movie of all time

>>212509692 (OP)
slop that tranime fags will shill into their graves.

>life is...le hard!

>>212509692 (OP)
Berserk mogs it and the Eclipse is more impactful than "le Christian imagery apocalypse"

>>212509692 (OP)
I've tried to kms to this song while pretty fucking drunk once

>>212509787
>"le Christian imagery apocalypse"
it's more Jewish really. it draws a lot from Kabbalah and Instrumentality is basically Tikkun Olam. the underlying psychological concepts and ego death that Shinji goes through draw from Buddhism.
the only reason there are crosses and shit is because Anno wanted spiritual imagery, but didn't want to use Buddhist imagery because it would be too heavily scrutinized by Japanese audiences. which ironically had the opposite effect on the Western audience.

asuka

>>212509879
>which ironically had the opposite effect on the Western audience.
we didn't scrutinize it at all and thought it looked awesome and was basically the rapture which just intensified all the intended themes at play?

>>212509931
>we didn't scrutinize it at all
maybe you didn't (I didn't either) but there are a lot of retards who screech about "muh meaningless Christian symbolism". there's always a couple in these threads. the point of it is that the show had broadly spiritual themes which Anno wanted to convey with the imagery, but it didn't adhere strictly to a single religious canon. and so he chose foreign (to Japan) religious imagery so that people wouldn't get hung up on it not being "true" Buddhism.

it does have similarities to rapture, and also Buddhist ego death, imo it's closest to the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam, but they're all similar concepts anyway. a lot of religions have similar themes and ideas just presented through different lenses. that's why I say it's just a broadly spiritual show, Anno was clearly inspired by several different religions but doesn't stick to any one in particular.

>>212509692 (OP)
Go back to /a/

>>212510077
Free Palestine.

>>212509692 (OP)
Tone whiplash, a cute song juxtaposed with terrifying imagery of the end of the world.
They do the same in 2.0

>>212510077
literally every great artist in history has employed imagery they didn't understand just because it looked good. the greatest never admit it.

>>212509879
It's neither christian nor jewish, it's abrahamic because japs think that shit is cool and just take bits and pieces of it and craft stories around it, really no different than how westoids take other cultures and do fun shit with them like put samurai in the wild west.
Nothing in Evangelion relates to the Bible at all outside of random words.

>>212510163
>Nothing in Evangelion relates to the Bible at all outside of random words.
the punchline to this joke is this applies to every branch of christianity as well.

/tv/ always gets confused by the christian imagery red herring

>>212509692 (OP)
Mmmm Orange Fanta

>>212510188
Correct, mostly because most abrahamic myths are transliterations of egyptian mythology and greek ontology, so the end result is a weird pastiche.

kino

>>212509692 (OP)
Being honest, Rei was Shinji's mom cloned, right? But the final rebuild revealed that actually, the thing all along was Shinji's mom hid her soul inside Shinji himself.
Don't you think that adds a bit of context to Rei, Lilith and Shinji? Given what Genji was doing with Adam?

>>212510433
Rebuild is not canon.

>>212510251
You can understand this if you study Elder Scrolls Lore in the school of Kirkbride. West and East are unironically unified in that madman's vision.

>>212510433
>But the final rebuild
nothing after EoE is canon.

>>212509692 (OP)

>>212510463
>>212510450
Well EoE has Shinji's mom in Eva float off into the universe.

Rebuild is fucked up. It presumes EoE happened and then somehow shit rebooted. That's never explained so it sucks.

>>212509803
Hope you are doing better now anon

>>212509803
try again faggot

What is the appeal of this show and anime in general? It just seems like juvenile shlock aimed at 16 year olds. Why are the main characters always teens? The stupid robots beating up aliens or whatever just seems too silly to take seriously. It's always full of tropes, terrible writing and are poor from a artistic standpoint. Why are there millions of people who obsess over this shit?

hardcore feeling the porcupine stuff at 30. I both long for human connection yet fear being rejected, betrayed, depended upon, etc

>>212512132
So capeshit but with sexy teens? Looks like an improvement over western "media".

>>212509774
it really is

>>212512132
Can't tell if this is lazy bait, but I'll answer anyway. Shonen anime are aimed at teenagers, and NGE is a shonen anime and it's aimed at teenagers. If you think of shows for teenagers as being dumbed down, formulaic, and not dealing with serious or substantial themes, NGE, unlike most shonen anime, is an example that that doesn't always have to be true. It's a show with mechs and waifus that deals with problems teenagers face, and it's really good, which means it's for adults as well. It's so beloved partly because the teenagers who watched it hadn't seen anything so artistically grown-up before.

>>212509896
Based

>>212512132
>t. Seen a few clips of anime on YouTube and is an expert

>>212516089
Yep
>I've never watched it before but ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG!

>>212509692 (OP)
Mobile Suit Gundam for pseuds

Something that got lost about evangelion was how it was a direct response to gundam wing, where a teenaged virginal mech pilot (heero yui) is played as a badass for actively rejecting pussy.