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[ SECRET POST #254 ]

⌈ Secret Post #254 ⌋

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16: I agree completely with this, except for the fact that I've not seen the new movie yet despite the fact I've been spazzing about it since I found out months ago about it. I'm so looking forward to it though and terrified at the same time. When I watched Eva for the first time I was his age and really identified with him. I rewatched it recently and understood so much more and it actually broke my heart on some many different levels... I was scared I was going to hate him now I'm older and (hopefully) wiser. I still identify and still love him as a character. I'm secretly scared again to see the new movie... I don't want to lose my love for him as a character.

tl;dr - I agree, haven't seen the new movie though and I'm scared it might change my view on him.

21: Talent is all over and I personally can appreciate certain things in most creative things I see even if it's not my thing. The stuff I was into a few years ago I may not be into anymore but I still love them on some level and I can't bring myself to look down on anyone for what they enjoy. So please don't take this the wrong way when I say I'm glad you're ashamed of yourself, it means you're not an complete asshole even if your own interests have changed.

25: I actually snapped today and started to download the damn thing. I'm worried now after seeing this secret. I want it to be awesome like everyone on my flist says it is. I'm still going to give it a shot though and keep hoping until I'm proven wrong. I'm sorry it didn't do it for you though ♥

16. That's how I feel too! Every time I watched Eva, I wanted to take Shinji home with me and hug him and bake him cookies and stuff! :P I just related to him so well. Every time some one complains that Shinji is too weepy, I ask them how they would react if their absentee father forced them to rick themselves to save the world.

And have you found a sub of the movie? I'm having so much trouble with that...

25. I love TTGL! It's a lot like FLCL, so if you liked that, you'll love this.

16: Yeah, totally! I like how... oddly real he was as a character. I liked a show with an anti-hero~

I haven't come across the movie in any shape or form yet and I'd take subbed or unsubbed right now... D: Sob.

25: I shamefully haven't seen FLCL yet either X);;;

OP here for #16:

SEE THE MOVIE. DON'T BE SCARED.

(probably no spoilers below, but I talk a bit about the movie)

I actually kinda wasn't looking forward to the movie when I heard that it was going to be recaps of the series (it kinda is, but with new animation--some taken straight from original storyboards--and new plotlines/holes) when it came to the first two.

But seriously, please see the movie. I saw it, and I want to go see it practically every week. I don't care if it's 1000yen per.

Shinji's predicament will break your heart more. The movie totally changed my opinion of him (it only made me love him more), but that's because they added certain bits where you figure out that he really is doing this for his friends and to be liked by people--and that he was really being manipulated by a bunch of adults he wants to please. It's very sad.

I first saw the series when I was 12, and I was turned off by the ending. XD; But two years ago, I saw it again after nine years and realized "Oh my god. This is what this is about." And Shinji's character intrigued me. He is probably the only recorded anime character who regressed instead of progressed. He's realistic. That's why it hurts SO MUCH when I see him like this, cuz we can all identify with him on some scale.

tl;dr here, too ^^;;; But I'm just passionate about Shinji.

Not tl;dr for me at all ♥ I like your passion about him as a character, I totally understand the feeling. It's been a real exprience rewatching Eva and being completely blown away almost ten years later still. It's a wonderful feeling to have watched it as a child before and as an adult now and still feel for the children characters.

Believe me, I want to see this movie so bad and I've wanted to since I heard about it fear and all... I'm just not sure when I'm going to be able to unless things go insanely well and things fall into place in such a way I'll get to visit a friend in Japan soon but regardless... I'm really looking forward to seeing it, whenever that may be.

Randomly, thank you ♥ I love rambling about eva to people, espeically people who don't dismiss Shinji as a whiney little brat for no reason. He's a great character and it's a wonderful brain-fuck of a show. I have utter love.

EVA really does just keep on trucking. I was blown away two years ago when I watched the series again (and then the movies for the first time, oh god). When I first watched it, I felt more compassion towards Asuka, but the second time, I realized more about Rei and Shinji as well. The children are just so complex, each and every one of them--that you can't help but want to just hold their hands.

I really hope you'll be able to see it, it's definitely worth every penny you put into it. And when you do, please tell me!

People who put Shinji down for no good reason other than seeing him on the surface as a whiny child annoy me. He does whine quite a bit (but mostly at the beginning of the series, as far as I remember), but it's like I said--it's understandable and he's just a normal kid. If I were a normal kid and someone told me to go and sit in a robot and risk certain painful death (and mind-rape), I'd be all "uh, dude, no."

The show was a total brain-fuck, indeed. The movie moreso O_O I just felt so bad about Shinji...and then I wrote a whole essay about EVA for my final for my gender studies course.

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