I have a music box that plays “Beautiful World”. :)

Since we seem to be sharing Eva stories...

People forget that the like/love debate has been going on since the time of fansubs. This is only the latest iteration.

It’s dramatic and heavy. And very weird. But I wouldn’t say it’s sad.

But at least we get a lyrical “Fly Me To The Moon” song in the end credits to soothe us.

Evangelion was the first ever anime boxset I got. $120 for 8 DVDs each in their own individual Amaray case. Was the first series I ever binged and while I had seen a few episodes beforehand (I had VHS tapes of episodes 10/11 and the episode where Unit 01 eats the Angel), this was my first time watching from beginning…

Find a sub. Don't watch a shitty dub of one of the best shows ever made, lmao

That I just attribute to people having a love for the first Dub they saw of the series, same as people who hold the dubs of DBZ higher than the Japanese voices.

That’s the thing, I get both sides of the argument. Both have different contexts that, in and of themselves, work fine for getting Shinji from point A to point B of this particular arc, so it’s not like one is “more right” than the other in my mind. “Like” is closer to the original Japanese, but “Love” feels closer to…

No one who uses American English says “mustn’t”, but people are all up in arms about Netflix not using “I mustn’t run away.”

ADV.

T b-side to beautiful world was a rearrangement or remaster (I forget which) of her earlier fly me to the moon single.

If JoJo and Crunchyroll can get all those songs it’s because Universal it’s the one who owns part of the rights over JJBA anime, and guess in which label are those songs under?

Because “I’m so fucked up” was an edgy translation of a line that actually was more along the lines of “I’m the worst” (“...Saitei da”).

I nearly abandoned Eva during the first episode because it seemed exactly like what you described. It was the standard cheesy anime tropes with cutsey anime girl Misato, the over dramatic “Get in the robot or we’ll send out that unconscious girl laid out on the stretcher who’s covered in bandages!” spiel, and the…

I actually really like The End of Evangelion as its like watching Anno just yelling FU! to the audience for 90 minutes. Furthermore, its actually quite prescient as anime fans and Otaku that the film expertly critiques has become worse then at Eva’s time.

It makes me wish End of Eva wasn’t released on Netflix at the same time. Maybe release it nine months later or whatever, so the new people can work themselves into a lather over how much they hate the show’s ending, convince themselves that the “true” ending will be satisfying and then watch the implosion.

On one hand it is a brilliant deconstruction of the “Real Robot Genre” of anime most notably Mobile Suit Gundam which is much more popular in Japan then the west. As such a lot of what is interesting in what is says is often lost on some who are not fans of the genre. On the other hand and this is more easily grasped…

Arguably in retrospect Eva’s greatest issue is that it made its mecha exterior too enticing and interesting. Eva, especially by the end, is more of a rumination on depression and human connection that occasionally giant robots are in rather than a giant robot show that has some headier themes. I’d go so far as to…