So I started watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. I must say I'm enjoying it. Though Asuka is annoying the shit out of me.
Particularly in episode 10, there was this moment where Asuka was explaining thermal expansion and used her breasts as examples of things that may expand if they get warmer.
wtf
Then when Shinji naturally isn't sure what to do in this situation she calls him a "boring boy." like was he supposed to fuck her right there on the table? Would that have been alpha enough? Confusing bitch.
This flirty then mean trope is shit tier.
Leo Clark
yeah she's a crazy slut, but mostly because she's got all those other issues and insecurities
James Lee
girls are confusing
Connor Perez
Keep watching she gets more sexually frustrated
Matthew Hall
>>Then when Shinji naturally isn't sure what to do in this situation she calls him a "boring boy." like was he supposed to fuck her right there on the table?
That's probably what she wanted, fucking slut
Justin Watson
At least some sort of reaction would have serviceable.
Chase Parker
Shinji is one of the only males she has contact and are not gushing for her. Kaji is the other. Can you see a pattern here? Half the series she is trying to seduce shinji or get him to feel something for her. He has better scores and better field resulds as a Eva pilot than her. Misato, their temporary """"mother"""" figure seens to like shinji more. He somehow got some friends that visit him almost daily. She is desperately in love, at least for the first half of the series.
Jeremiah James
If this happened in RL I reckon pretty much everyone wouldn't know what to do
Gavin Russell
There are girls like this all over the world at every age. Prepare to be very confused for life, user.
Nathan Ward
Asuka's whole MO that episode is that she's starved for attention. The ending reveals there are things about her she doesn't want anybody to know about. Her character arc for the rest of the series is based on this internal conflict.
Dylan Johnson
She wanted him to say "they don't need to expand, they're perfect the way they are, baby" or something.
David Walker
She would call him a pervert and leave the pool He would get confused and sad When he arrived home she would be naked on his bed
Brody Ward
Then he wouldn't have needed to be so fucked up
Kevin Turner
She thinks sex means adulthood. She was acting sexual and making him blush to establish a peking order where' she's the adult and him still a boy. She's always seeking to be in the lead her ego depends on it.
Leo Sanders
I don't remember anything from Evangelion other than lots and lots of screaming.
Landon Martin
I only remember the Kaworu episode.
Jack Anderson
I remember the elevator shit, rei exploding, and shinji and kaworu being gay as fuck.
Grayson Robinson
>this post formatting How am I not surprised such a blatant newfag would contact such a shit thread as this?
Isaac Russell
>2k17 >watching Eva Just don't. You need to spend a sufficient amount of time to understand everything it offers you.
Josiah Barnes
I remember my dick feeling tingly when I saw Kaworu. I was 9 at the time.
Brandon Smith
So, are you sucking cocks for money now?
Nolan King
Yes, Anno ruined my life.
Kayden Myers
>ruined
Gavin Bennett
Are you twelve or something?
Nathan Cooper
You misspelled saved there user
Jason Cox
>Confusing bitch. It's almost as if she's a teenage girl.
Luke Roberts
i remember the last episode ending with the most pretentious monologue i've ever sat through, it was like watching /lit/ jerk themselves off on how great their taste is.
Angel Parker
"Pretentious" is the ultimate meme criticism. Calling something pretentious is admission that you lack the capacity to express why you didn't like something. Rather than admitting that you didn't fully understand it, you simply imagine that it and everyone who likes it is playing a big game of pretend and that you're "above" it.
Carson Price
I think he doesn't realize that Shinji is gay
Caleb Price
you realize that me saying its pretentious is the reason why i didn't like it? instead of letting the show speak for itself it had to go on this 10 minute monologue at the end to make sure i understood how deep and thought provoking it was.
AND IT WAS INCREDIBLY PRETENTIOUS FOR THAT REASON. what part of that is hard to understand? my stance seems pretty clear and i understand it completely, that doesn't stop it from being a shit way to end a series.
Gabriel Perry
How exactly is any of the last two episodes in instrumentality pretentious? you have characters LITERALLY speaking their absolute uninhibited mind.
Jack Young
Asuka is fucking infuriating. She's not even a "tsundere," she's just fucking nuts. No wonder Shinji turned into a fag, Kaworu is the least-stressful partner for him in the show, except maybe for Kaji, and he'd STILL have to turn into a fag to be with him.
Michael Lopez
That's what End of Evangelion is for
Asher Collins
how is it pretentious? do you understand what that word means because its pretty clear the monologue was desperate to make sure i was impressed.
James Rivera
It did not try to pretend to be anything else or grander than what it was at all, It's what happens INSIDE instrumentality, you can be mad all you want at the budget cuts but the original endings were good for what they were. Or have you not watched EoE?
Elijah Lopez
ok let me say this, cut the monologue from the series completely, does it stop the rest of the story from being engaging or interesting, no.
the end adds nothing but some faggot jerking himself off to the viewer.
Nathan Jones
You have to understand that the last two episodes were supposed to be what End of Evangelion was, except Anno blew the budget on strippers and had to recreate the concept of instrumentality with zero funds. In my opinion the last two episodes managed to communicate the director's intentions just as well. I don't find introspection or monologues inherently pretentious, do you?
Cameron Robinson
Shinji is also in love with her but he is naive as fuck and doesnt do enough to show it as shown in the EOE when he is about to enter instrumentality and it's having an introspection.
Rei represents it's the sincere self - according to anno that's his trait that he based her on anyway - shinji says he did but he knows he is lying to himself and percieves Asuka as someone that will reject him no matter what he does.
Lincoln Long
i find them incredibly pretentious and a garbage way or relaying the authors thoughts to its viewer.
if you can't find a way to get your philosophies/ themes across to the viewer without info dumping monologues you are a shit author.
Parker Taylor
Watch End of Eva first, that entire monologue happens during a scene there.
Samuel Evans
seems relevant to the thread atm
Sebastian Smith
In a show where the entire cast's problem was a failure in communication, Instrumentality was the perfect way to bring across his themes.
Juan Wright
he hasn't gotten to ep 24 yet
Carson Gonzalez
>Shinji is also in love with her No? Here's what is actually canon, an excerpt of Shinji's relationships from the Death and Rebirth book:
The Fatal Disease
A cowardly soul. A heart full of want. A desire to be loved. Ikari Shinji. The day he headed for the land of destiny was coincidentally the day of the first Angel attack in 15 years. His father’s order. The adults’ expectations. An injured girl. “I mustn’t run away.” He repeats like a spell and pilots the Eva. Sortie. Berserk. Battle. Defense. Strategy. Defeat. Ambush. Crushing. Retreat. Berserk. Destruction. He has several meetings of chance as he continued to battle the Angels. Ayanami Rei — Bandages. Mysteries. Indifference. An object of interest. Mother. Soryu Asuka Langley — Girl. Perplexing. Formidable. Indecipherable. Sex. Katsuragi Misato — Adult. Superior. Meddlesome. Soldier. Family. Ikari Gendo — Harsh. Commander. Hatred. Anger. Father. Father. Father… Many words and looks were directed at him. But, he closed himself away in the deep, dark depths of his heart, and simply hid himself. Just staring timidly from the shadows… But, the words “I love you” cleared away the darkness in his heart. Nagisa Kaworu. The Fifth Child. A kind boy. The first person he opened his heart to. But, Kaworu turned out to be an Angel. The enemy of man. Something not human. Betrayal. Despair. Regret. Anger. He gets in Unit 01 and wrings out those complicated emotions as he kills Kaworu. The first person to tell him “I love you.” The first being he opened his heart to. With his own hands…
Logan White
see thats where i disagree, i thought the themes were already delivered it was clear that communication and teenagers being forced to face extreme conditions and struggling with their realities was obvious. i didn't need anno ramming his hardon down my throat, i hated the way it came across to me.
Ethan Taylor
Woops, meant to reply to
Landon Howard
Shinji is in love with Kaworu. He just lusts after Asuka.
Kevin Wilson
Shinji only goes gay for Carl because he's his ideal self.
Benjamin Robinson
Aaaaaaanannndndnddndnd?
Thomas Peterson
I want to talk a little about the ending of EoE.
Given that everyone lost their clothes when turned to LCL, and shinji left unit 01 naked when he untanged himself, why isnt asuka (and maybe even shinji) naked during the last scene? Censors? To avoid giving the fans an even stronger AsukaXShinji implication?
Brandon Lewis
He was nekkid while finalizing the cancellation, where he's in a blue zone with his head on Rei's lap
But he's clothed when he's actually untanged and talking to his mama, in the orange of the LCL sea
Ethan Miller
Yeah, but why? It strongly implies he got tanged with everyone else, at least for a small while in the sea of lcl. The same for asuka. Why are they clothed after? The bandages specially. People can imagine the form of their own clothes too?
Brayden Phillips
>tfw Asuka shows up naked and Shinji goes for round two
Luis Brooks
It's not even consistent with him doing the same thing before. And I think they may have added that line about his clothes transforming into a plug suit because they forgot what he was wearing before they started animating.
Wyatt Richardson
>Y..You too
that would happen
Blake Baker
I honestly don't think he was. He never gave a shit when she was gushing all over Kaji or going on dates with other boys. He was sexually attracted, but he would have acted that way with any attractive girl living in such close quarters with him. They could have became friends if those light-hearted episodes continued a bit longer, but shit hit the fan so they just stayed as co-workers with hormonal tension.
Not every single detail in Eva has meaning. Sometimes it's that way just because.
Ian Adams
You can't deny that Asuka is gorgeous.
Hunter Adams
HAH!
Hudson White
Are you sure you arent mistaking it Dragonball Z?
Easton Baker
Asuka is beautiful.
Lincoln Peterson
>having to post spinoff games and fanart HAH!
Juan Evans
Literally both of those were neither of those things?
Nathan Gonzalez
>one is a screencap from the actual show >the other is official art You're a special kind of retarded.
Christopher Cruz
>namefag thinking his opinion matters Asuka looks like a man in canon.
Ryan Edwards
Asuka looks good in anything.
Nicholas Diaz
Spears definitely look good in Mansuka.
Dominic Reed
What's the matter kid, afraid of using a name because everyone will know that everything you say is stupid?
I detect underage. I can spot it instantly.
Leo Hall
>still resorting to fanart Enjoy the manfaced tranny.
Rei will always be the best and most beautiful.
Joshua Garcia
kek, even in fanart Asuka still looks like a man in a wig.
Ian Reed
This sounds pretty succinct, but accurate. Interesting interpretation there, user.
Ian Powell
I can: Asuka is not gorgeous.
Jason Roberts
>wtf Fuck off.
Aaron Price
That isn't even the worst of her. I'm convinced people who actually like her watched this back when they were 12 and barely followed the dialogue, they just fapped.
Elijah Young
All she wanted was to be Shinji's girlfriend but he was too goddamn retarded to make any move on her. She even took the initiative and asked him to kiss her, but still: nothing. It's really frustrating being in love with a gay kid.
I know what you're going to say: he was under a lot of stress and juster boy etc. You know the best way to relieve stress when you're a boy? Sex with Asuka every night.
Kevin Kelly
>2 hour bump wtf
Caleb Anderson
>Not saying "I don't believe it. Can you give me a demonstration?" R9k+1 get out of my board
Brody Edwards
What the hell happened to that post.
Wyatt Nelson
>*Kaji's girlfriend ftfy
Parker Perry
Yeah you have a lot to go through. I feel bad for the guy, he doesnt want none of this bitches shit and she just keeps pushing and pushing in her bitchy way and cant figure out why he wont respond.
Glad she gets what she deserves in EoE
Bentley Parker
Asuak's only good side.
Nathaniel Young
She was just throwing herself at him because Shinji refuses to acknowledge her no matter what she does, and she was all heartbroke.
Levi Wilson
Maybe a mod with a brain will see it and you'll get the ban you deserve.
Levi Clark
I just watched this show for the first time a few days ago and I wished I never have. To sum it up, all the plot did was take left turns. it never really got any where and just kept doing random crazy shit that made no damn since.
Lucas Roberts
She had been throwing herself and him long before shinji was around.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
How? I watched it as a dumbfuck teen and the plot still made sense.
Jaxon Rogers
She loved Kaji far before she ever met Shinji, and continued to love him after she met Shinji. Kaji is the only one she calls out for during her mindrape.
Leo Phillips
Hey, heres a wacky idea. Maybe he just had no interest in her in the first place. Its not like she has a stellar personality to go for.
Evan Turner
yea I remember that flash back scene, where she got on top of him, ripped open her shirt and was begging for the dick, but he said no, your just a kid.
Aaron Ramirez
>fool talking about brains thinking I'm OP
Joseph Murphy
Of course you are. The thing that makes you a fool is you thinking you saying you're not the OP will make anyone believe you.
Nicholas Gonzalez
>no interest >jerked off to her tits
Ian Ross
I remember Shinji constantly cowering somewhere in a fetal position after running away. This little whiny fuck was so goddamn pathetic.
Jason Ross
you're obvi one of those retards that thinks anything can be shooped so why do i even bother
Christopher Rogers
You see, those titties wont abuse the fuck out of him and be a bitchy cunt. Thats fair game, its what they are attached to that horrible for him
Angel Brooks
>He doesnt rewatch it biannually Its still good even after the 15th rewatch
Jonathan Martinez
He was only interested in her body. That's why he only made a move when she was sleeping or in a coma. Like a porn star or fuck doll.
Owen Hughes
>ur a retard for no accepting something that's not confirmable as evidence durrrr
Carson Collins
Neither of you can prove shit. Just drop it
Daniel Sullivan
The fact that you said "obvi" and didn't correct it, makes me think you're as new as OP, if you're not him. You don't even capitalize anything. Hello faggot police.