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Super Best Friends Thread 5: There's a Skeleton Inside Each of Us
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DoktorEvil
Banned
It's a story of the human condition under depression and the ways to combat it. The robuts and other shit is window dressing. It's a really great character study.
I'd say that's on the writer that the main message is so clouded that it isn't received by the majority of the audience.
YesManKablam
Member
Low.
It would only take like 4 episodes.
Unless it's Pat playing, then we wouldn't even get to the police station.
So Atlus is now below cacpcom in my list of VD companies. At least with cacpcom I know that I will get my games from them (The only capcom game I play is MH)
I refuse to get hype for P5, because I am not even sure if I will get to play it. Who knows they might even Regionlock it, just for the fun, just for the lulz
I refuse to get hype for P5, because I am not even sure if I will get to play it. Who knows they might even Regionlock it, just for the fun, just for the lulz
bitches
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
But Shinji is still the focus in EoE! His problems are directly there and drive everything, but we also get all the other plot points more tied up as well as some of the best imagery in anything ever.
It is, though. They directly talk about how it's up to the pilot and that's one of the reasons Gendo wanted Shinji, because he knew he could manipulate him into doing what he wanted.
It is, though. They directly talk about how it's up to the pilot and that's one of the reasons Gendo wanted Shinji, because he knew he could manipulate him into doing what he wanted.
I don't actually side with the two endings being alternate, I take Episodes 25-26 as what Shinji is seeing and EoE being what is actually happening. When he wakes up and chokes Asuka it's after the omedetou scene. Because I take that scene as Shinji accepting his responsibilities and manning up, manning up to deny instrumentality, which is why everyone congratulates him. I don't like the idea of that's him accepting instrumentality, because that makes the show ending the bad ending.
He directly talked in interviews about how he didn't have any of the EoE stuff in the original series because he didn't want to force something in there that he knew wouldn't work and that he wouldn't be happy with. He was excited to do EoE because it gave him a chance to end the series the way he wanted to from the start.
He directly talked in interviews about how he didn't have any of the EoE stuff in the original series because he didn't want to force something in there that he knew wouldn't work and that he wouldn't be happy with. He was excited to do EoE because it gave him a chance to end the series the way he wanted to from the start.
Nova Bovington
Member
MONICA! I like EVA and all, but GitS actually makes sense and actually has something to say and questions to ask other than
'People are dicks, I guess, but that's ok, I think. And the only way I can be happy is if I let myself be happy!'
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Aaron-Lagann
Banned
I don't think you understood Evangelion. It does make sense and has clear messages that aren't those.
That sounds perfect since the goal this year seems to be completion in 7 days before the girl from the ring hijacks their television.
YesManKablam
Member
Well, Cthulhu failed and we know that Liam breaks one of the LPs, so I'm guessing they're getting the shit haunted out of them.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
I think Liam breaks a One-Off.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
i wanna see them play one of the creepy mysterious jugos from last year
My issue is I don't think the pool is that deep at all.
I think they told you it was. So you go in and goes up to your ankles and you leave dissapointed.
Nova Bovington
Member
It's a show about how the world will never be as great as you hope it is or can be and the only way you can be happy is by accepting yourself for who you are, despite all your faults and fetishes for choking and masturbating over comatose girls. You have to actively work towards creating the conditions of your own happyness and not let it be dictated by other people, technology or religion.
I think I understand Evangelion just fine.
YesManKablam
Member
It would be funnier if he broke a week long one, and turned it into a one-off.
The reason why ghost in the shell, the anime series in particular is good is because it doesn't really have anything to say all it does is suggest you think about things. There isn't any firm stance. It just presents you a possible future based on previous events and gives you things to think about. The anime is really good at this because a lot of times they can give you that thought in the span of an episode.
Like " what if this was an issue with the future" and then they come with simi plausible reasons as to how that would come about, a cool futuristic CSI kinda thing, and just lets you think about.
Its not like brazil where its like bureaucracy is bad
Its like " cyber bureaucracy is bad, cyber bureaucracy is good. How do you feel about it "
Its very open.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
No, you don't, because the series isn't about accepting yourself. There's a whole plot point where Shinji tries to do that and it make everything worse. The single message is to not lock yourself off from society. You can't run away from your problems and you have to accept the reality of your situation.
If thats really the case this show does that poorly
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
No, it does it super well, because Shinji doesn't fucking do it. Shinji closes himself off more and more until literally everyone and everything is fucked.
While what you mention is one of the few things I actually will give credit to eva for.
Its lessened with " everything is screwed, oh wait... I don't care about anyone and they never really gave me reasons. Actually I think a lot of them are shits, huh I well I guess everything is screwed. "
YesManKablam
Member
I tried watching Eva once.
Shinji's a bitch.
Shinji's a bitch.
Phantasmal Repose
Member
I like EVA, but there were a lot of times where I didn't understand what was happening. Not sure if it was because I didn't pay enough attention or if the series is just confusing in general.
i feel the same.
Me neither, skeleton Korra.
YesManKablam
Member
I found this image on the funny pics thread.
It's been a day, but I'm still dieing.
It's been a day, but I'm still dieing.
Phantasmal Repose
Member
I found this image on the funny pics thread.
It's been a day, but I'm still dieing.
The true joke here is that some people still buy bootleg movies.
Banana Aeon
Member
I was pretty sure the bootleg economy was killed by glorious torrents.
But you can't be buying bootlegs from baseheads anyway.
DoktorEvil
Banned
I don't care about the EVA haters:
Y'all motherfuckers need Mitsuragi.
Purple haired waifu is best waifu.
A younger, more 13 yr old me would say Askua.
Y'all motherfuckers need Mitsuragi.
Purple haired waifu is best waifu.
A younger, more 13 yr old me would say Askua.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
EVA Sucks. Gundam was the better mech series anyway.
Aw man, that's gold right there.I found this image on the funny pics thread.
It's been a day, but I'm still dieing.
Amsterdam is fun you guys. Not to derail the topic or anything. Watching my friends lose it after having consumed their drug 3 hours before was amazing.
RTTP friender origins:
Born in the Caribbean, schooled until high school in the Caribbean then moved to Paris, France for my engineering degree I'm currently working on.
Wrong.
ScionOfTheRisingSun
Banned
It was though.
ScionOfTheRisingSun
Banned
It wasn't though.
Most mech series don't really interest me as much as other stuff, Mechs are awesome and all but they work better in game form if the story isn't going to carry them, so the last mech related series I can think of that I really enjoyed that wasn't Zoids, was Code Geass.
I always got the impression if you're watching EVA for mechs only, you're probably missing the point, which is unfortunate because I thought the story was nonsense, so Mechs or not, nothing was going to keep me interested.
YesManKablam
Member
Slow day at work.
Rebuild 3.0 was garbage and it wanted to capture the original feel of the series with something that was clearly headed in a different direction. Even the Japanese audience thought it was pretty bad.
EoE was fine for what it was building to, but I really can't say I thought the last ten episodes of Eva were that great anyway. So the ending worked well for the series.
EoE was fine for what it was building to, but I really can't say I thought the last ten episodes of Eva were that great anyway. So the ending worked well for the series.
YesManKablam
Member
Some son of a bitch stole my toilet seat.
Who does that?
Who does that?
DoktorEvil
Banned
I came in for the robuts, but stayed for the human interest/depression.
Besides, the Units were less robut & more angel.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
People who don't have a toilet seat.Some son of a bitch stole my toilet seat.
Who does that?
YesManKablam
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