Honestly...

Honestly, if you were placed in a world ending situation and was forced to pilot a monstrous being made from the dead soul of your mother at such a young age. How would you seriously react to it? Would you be emotionally destroyed like Shinji? Or a tough kid like Toji who's bravado is what got him killed.

>not!nukes don't work against alien monsters
>a robot punching it in the face does
I fucking hate mecha series

Eva does a reasonable explanation that the alien monsters have a field that cannot be penetrated except for that exact same field. lo and behild, Evas have that field.

>Or a tough kid like Toji who's bravado is what got him killed.
Toji's bravado had nothing to do with anything, he was just unlucky enough to get stuffed into unit 4.

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The cross bombs are nukes. But EVA is EVA, the reason they use gigantic robots is for the sake of Human Instrumentality Project, not Nuking The Enemy.

But Shinji was fine all the way up until Bardiel where he understandably didn't want to risk killing his friend. Everything before that he was the main one leading the attacks against the Angels and had the most kills out of the trio. Even after that he didn't completely shut down until EoE.

I genuinely don't know why people make Shinji out as if he was a crybaby the entire show when he held his shit together pretty well up until the shit really hit the fan.

So this retard doesn't get eva at all? Ok.

I'm pretty sure they haven't even actually watched it since Shinji's reason for being mad at Gendo is revealed pretty early on and has literally nothing to do with any of the stuff in the comic.

>that comic
Are people that dense? Shinji's issue wasn't that he was piloting the EVA, it was his fucking dad calling him after literally ditching his ass without a word and then calling him again after a prolong period of time like he's some sort of expendable test subject.

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Because he is a crybaby. Do you ignore how he spends all his time getting pushed around by Asuka and putting himself down around Misato? He doesn't even want to get in the robot, he just does it because people pressure him to.

>people taking a humorous comic seriously

Holy fucking kek.

>Or a tough kid like Toji who's bravado is what got him killed.
Shinji was fine in situations where he actively went out of his way to perform as poorly as conceivably possible. With his level of plot armor, a braindamaged chimp could've piloted the eva to success. Probably would've done a better job, too.

If I were in his position though and I knew everything that had and was about to happen, first thing I'd do would be to kill my dad, and then I'd kill myself.

Post the cool song my dudes.

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>humorous

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The whole Zeruel fight before Unit-01 runs out of juice is HYPE AS FUCK

Piloting a giant robot soundd like a great idea until you find out the hard way its an artifficial being that some asshole decided it should be linked to your nervous system so you feel every blow, cut and dismemberment.

What's hard to get about Shinji being mental case?

just don't get hit, casual

Does he not like Battle Orchestra and Rebuild?

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>I want all the fun without any punishment for failure
Git gud, scrub.

This guy gets it

>thats like watching porn and hoping the guy will just fix the fridge and leave

Ive seen a porn like that. the repairman was a super uggo and it disgusted me watching that shit

You're going against fuck off aliens that have stretchy appendages that can pierce armor in the best scenario, not some playground bully.

And you're going against those aliens in a giant robot with giant weapons and a magical force-field, you pussy.

>dude haha eva's so dumb why wouldn't a 14 year old kid want to pilot a giant weaponized robot , when I was 14 I was so cool and never made any mistake, I'd totally be up for the challenge without any hesitation

Injuries suck because they cripple you for months or life. But you can skip all that shit piloting an eva. Just get high on adrenaline and fight through the pain. The evas themselves do it all the time when one of the rarded fucking humans aren't getting in their way. But if all you do is stand there and cry and feel sad and focus on how much everything sucks for yourself, yeah, you're gonna feel all the pain right away, because that's the only thing you're focusing on.

>it's another "i take satirical webcomics seriously" episode

>this is shit
>ACTUALLY IT'S SATIRE SO IT'S GOOD

didn't said it was good, you're getting upset over nothing

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>umad?

Toji didn't die though.
And his bravado had nothing to do with what happened to him.

He was a kid arguably abused by his father, without a mother and probably a high functioning autist who after something like 8 years of his natural life gets a call from his dad to come see him only to get picked up by some random hot chick and get thrown around in a warzone without any reason for being there. He is then told by his dad to get in a giant robot made of his mom without any formal combat training and told to go fight the space monster whom just vaporized half of the local military detachment guarding the location, all while his father guilts him for wanting nothing to do with his dead beat ass. All in all Shinji did ok for everything he went through and he still got shit on in the end rofl. Also will there ever be a decent Eva game where you pilot the units and fight Angels in Souls like combat learning each meme from each individual Angel, of course with VN elements so we can date best girl Misato :^)

Why not put the field on nukes?

>why wouldn't a 14 year old kid want to pilot a giant weaponized robot
You asked the question but didn't give any answer.

>I don't know what a rhetorical question is
>realistic characters are dumb, I'd rather they be a self-insert power fantasy

Evangelion Jo is probably the best EVA game in terms of action. But a lot of its non-combat gameplay is a watered down Secret of Evangelion.
Also you can only play as Eva-01 which is fucking mind-boggling. Give me the 3 main units dammit.

These fields are only generated by living beings and EVA's are alive.

This is a pasta and has nothing to do with video games.

He dies in the manga. He also more or less died in Rebuild, as Shinji is given one of Toji's shirts to wear and he is never mentioned by his sister at the start of 3.0

He didn't do "ok". Maybe he did "ok" by the lowest possible standards imaginable. Most people when they go through rough lives don't turn out weaker than a normal person; they turn out stronger. Shinji somehow did the opposite. Why? Because he's inherently a weak, pathetic person. He'd always be that way, no matter how his life leading up to that had been. So fuck him, and fuck everyone who defends him.

So make cheap EVAs with nukes attached to them.
It's not like nips haven't ever convinced themselves not to direct things loaded with ordinance to other things, killing themselves in the process.

They're only generated by living things. The big secret is that EVA units aren't actually robots, buy cyborgs.

>Anyone in Eva
>Realistic
Good one.

Instead of making a few giant bipedal EVAs, make many small ones without limps but a propulsion rocket and nukes

>He doesn't even want to get in the robot

Maybe because the very first time he did so he almost died and the third or so time he almost gets melted alive? Yet despite that he still put on his big boy pants and kept getting in it regardless.

>look at my tiny hands
I know the perspective is fucked but I just can't help it.

Also explained. Only a handful of individuals are found that can actually pilot an EVA unit, and there is no making a "cheap" one as they're all staggeringly expensive.

Original series or get out

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If Toji had died in Rebuild then his little sister wouldn't have been anywhere near as kind to Shinji as she was.

Whatever
Post lewds of her

>make cheap EVAs
Kind of hard to make a cheap super robot alien clone whatever. And regular EVAs work well enough. And the goal of SEELE isn't just stopping Angels.

And a funny thing - one of EVAs does do a kamikaze attack with an N2 bomb close to the finale. It survives, too!

Also they once penetrate AT-field with a really big gun. It takes the energy of all of the Japan to fire, though, and only works because the target isn't very mobile.

EVAs are organic beings, they're clones of a giant alien being. The armour is more like restraints, really.

>Create a show that's industry commentary on how 99% Japanese mecha pilots are the same type of derivative macho character
>Somehow this is some deep thing that's talked about for decades with a full dividing line of people being assholes to each other over the incongruity of the plot and characters.

I had no idea it was this easy. If someone were to create an anime about a hamster piloting a mecha, would it also get boorish nerds complaining that the hamster isn't fucking the female half-Japanese deuteragonist when it should, because that's the manly thing to do, and how deep it is that the hamster has crushing ennui over the pointlessness of it all?

They're all basically modified clones of Adam, which is bipedal, and lilith, which was presumably bipedal.

Then there's the whole "fuse a human soul" thing, and then you have to find a pilot that can actually work with it.

I think this comic was just joking OP, they (probably) aren't serious.

As to some people in this thread
>Implying most 14 year olds in first world countries would do any better than Shinji

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I want to fuck that semen demon

I never get the "Shinji didn't get in the mech" meme. He literally got in the mech every time and there was one time where he ran away but came back, otherwise he was doing a good job piloting it. Shiji is actually pretty based.

He wasn't enthusiastic enough for most people who expected him to be a standard hot blooded anime protagonist.

heh

Wasn't Jet Alone hypothetically able to fight Angels?

Angels have are are surrounded by AT fields, which basically let the angels go "nuh uh" to anything and everything that enters that field. It is basically superpowered autismal personal space that they have total dominion over and can only be nullified by a similar autismal personal space field of a similar being (in this case, evas).

Damn, so there's no way to modify the clones so they are smaller and limbless? It's easier to pilot a rocket than a giant death cyborg, so we could lower the criteria for the pilots

>and there was one time where he ran away but came back
Did you miss the part where NERV sent people after him to forcefully bring him back? He never had the luxury of leaving.

>anime that women will never understand: the comic

>Dissing Futyutsuki

Not without an AT Field, which they wanted to artificially create eventually. But Jet Alone got sabotaged so the plans never took off

Jet Alone was proof of concept for the non-NERV scientists and non-SEELE government. When asked about the AT Field, they expressed confidence that it was only a matter of time. NERV couldn't object publicly since they didn't want to play their hand that EVA units aren't robots, they sabotaged the project's reactor instead.

It lacked AT-field, so I doubt it. I think they had to destroy it to prevent any chances of funds getting diverted into the program, though.

The humanity isn't that advanced to modify alien genome. And we don't really understand EVAs and its true potential. And again, the goal was to stop Angels only on the surface, there's a shadowy Illuminati type organization that wants to trigger the end of the world under their control because they believed they had a way for it to advance the humanity forward.

how are there so many people in this thread taking this comic seriously?

I'd tell them my salary would start with seven before signing.

The difficulty of piloting the damn things is not about how hard their controls are. It is about the fact that unless the pilot's soul is compatible with the Eva, the fucker ain't moving an inch.

It wasn't. Jet Alone was a doomed project from the very start which is why Ritsuko was so butthurt that they were spending so much money and time on it in the first place. And it WAS a fucking retarded idea.

>need a human pilot in order to form their own AT Field to cancel out an Angel's AT Field
>hurr let's stuff a nuke into a machine and make it remote controlled

It was a walking nuke but still wouldn't have been able to pierce AT Fields because there was no human pilot in it. In one of the art books though there's a concept for a massively upgraded Jet Alone though with some kind of AT Field piercing hammer, but I don't think it's canon.

Jesus fuck man what kind of childhood did you lead from 14-15? The only way anyone could be prepared for the giant robot combat is either to be decensistized to it or to be trained to for years to perform combat in it. So unless you grew up in a war zone I dont believe you could either empathize or sympathize with Shinjis situation so I dont understand how you are so quick to judge. Also mother fucking Shinji had arguably a 100% successful sortie rate so I dont know where you get the "barely performing" from you aspie retard.

What if we strap a normal rocket on the back of the EVA and have someone pilot the rocket? The robot might not move by itself, but the rocket will move it

Werent those never localized or am I wrong on that?

Sure, then find a bunch of people to throw their souls into the evas on a one to one basis, then find a bunch of kamikaze pilots who will blow themselves up who actually manage to be compatible with said souls.

The dummy plug system produces relative retard EVAs, so you wouldn't want them going kamikaze.

But you need to synchronize with EVA to produce AT-fieldo. This means getting in the fucking robot.

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At my current age I'd be scared as fuck to fight the angels but I'd be able to understand the behavior of people like misato and asuka , and not be as perplexed by them like Shinji is.

At Shinji's age I would have probably acted like him. Trying to run away and not knowing how to deal with being attracted to all these girls that I don't understand.

The EVA probably wouldn't activate. Only times we see EVAs move without a pilot is when 01 protects Shinji from debris and when it breaks the bakelite so Shinji can get in

Now we're getting somewhere, next clone someone like Shinji but make the clone a retard downs boy. Put the clone in the robot with bright colored horse shows, and then ready for take off

I don't think there's a single localized EVA game lol.
Jo is pretty easy to get through and there's a FAQ for menus and stuff though. There's a FAQ for Secret but since the appeal of that game is all the character interaction and plot, there's not much point if you don't speak japanese

People can rip it all they want.
Evangelion is rivalled only by Gundam in terms of its franchise staying power.
Even the people who hate it will acknowledge its impact, discuss its influence.
A hipster with a snarky comic strip reveals only his own benightment.
If you are on the internet and you haven't watched Evangelion, you are a fucking pleb.

r u mad buddy?

>liking the rebuilds
I hope you're jesting

Girlfriend of Steel 1 and Ayanami Raising Project both have English translations. I think Battle Orchestra had one too.

They were good until 3.0 happened.

>put autism field on bomb
>stab angel with autism nuke
>kaboom
wow

your opinion is incorrect !

What was the point of Mari in 2.0? And was she a legit sociopath? She didn't seem to be affected by anything, and just kind of showed up and beat up some dudes. Was it just to add a new waifu or something?

Does anyone actually like her?
>inb4 waifu thread

I was literally afraid of my own shadow at that age so it probably be about the same

>Have a teen react realistically to said situation
>Wow so deep deconstruction!

Yes Anno I know a whiny teen would be an emotional wreck here. It's a cartoon nigga.