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My first exposure was some mad bastard playing a VHS copy on all of the tvs at Target. I clearly remember the fight with the first angel on multiple televisions.
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My first exposure was in 2000 when I got all of Eva + Death/Rebirth + EoE burned on 2 cds as a gift. I installed RealPlayer to watch it and a year later, I was selling Dragonball bootlegs. The early 2000s was a crazy time to be a fan. Our local bootlegger actually had a shop in our local mall back then where he made a killing off 2-3 episode VHSes, import video games, Gundam models, and japanese snacks. This was like, three stores down from the local Borders and a floor below Barnes and Noble.
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Feb 7, 2021 08:17
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Paper Lion posted:I always thought that everyone was congratulating him for joining the LCL when I was a kid. Then again, when I first saw this it was all in Japanese on VHS tapes shipped over here. I was 7 and no one knew any better.
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Feb 8, 2021 01:13
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I finished watching it with my boyfriend today and he quietly asked "...can you please make it make sense" after ep 26 ended and I gleefully responded "nope!" Thankfully 1) I didn't get dumped and 2) He's down to watch Death/Rebirth and EoE. If he isn't hooked by EoE I won't try to get him into the Rebuilds because we're in a LDR and FaceTime is limited so I've gotta prioritize. So glad he stuck with it after realizing I conned his rear end by saying "oh yeah, it's a robot show, you'll love it!"
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Feb 8, 2021 03:02
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the escape goat posted:I finished watching it with my boyfriend today and he quietly asked "...can you please make it make sense" after ep 26 ended and I gleefully responded "nope!" I just think the TV ending is so unsatisfying as a conclusion to the literal plot of the show and EoE delivers incredibly on that front.
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Feb 8, 2021 03:32
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25/26 do just straight-up tell you what the show is about though, so they're useful if you're confused.
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Feb 8, 2021 03:34
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If you’re watching them in one shot skip Death and Rebirth and just go straight to EoE, the 24 minutes of new animation that make up Rebirth are the beginning of EoE. Death will just recap everything you just watched in the series, which would be helpful if you’d been away for a while but is less necessary if it’s still fresh in your mind.
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Feb 8, 2021 03:38
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absolutely do not skip 25 and 26, jesus christ
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Feb 8, 2021 03:54
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:absolutely do not skip 25 and 26, jesus christ
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Feb 8, 2021 03:55
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:absolutely do not skip 25 and 26, jesus christ
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Feb 8, 2021 04:06
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Animated Drawings To Replace Webmasters > Neon Genesis Evangelion megathread: absolutely do not skip 25 and 26, jesus christ f'reals though I don't see a reason to feel like 25/26 are unsatisfying when you have EoE sitting right there to wrap everything up. Go right to it.
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Feb 8, 2021 04:20
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Feb 8, 2021 04:37
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:absolutely do (not) skip 25 and 26, jesus christ
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Feb 8, 2021 04:43
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JazzFlight posted:I know this is blasphemy, but if someone new to this were to watch it, I’d recommend skipping 25/26 and just watching EoE straight after 24. If they wanted a little more, I’d tell them to go back and watch 25/26 or just move on to the Rebuilds. Do not listen to this poster.
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Feb 8, 2021 04:44
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I don't even get skipping them. Watched the whole series for the first time only a couple weeks ago and if you've made it to 24, you're pretty much all in at that point. If they're disappointed you can just immediately watch EoE. I liked them, and I think the upbeat feel of 26 just made EoE have that much more of an impact.
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I’ve showed Eva to many, many people. I always do the full series, then Rebirth, then EoE Why the gently caress does anyone think skipping 25 and 26 is a good idea oh my god, that’s just an insult to the viewer’s intelligence. I do appreciate that you’re willing to admit how blasphemous that idea is though. He did catch the frame where Asuka has an eyepatch and is looking forward to how that comes about. After digesting it for a few hours, he digs 25 and 26 a lot more. We’ll watch Rebirth next weekend then EoE a few weekends after that. the escape goat fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Feb 8, 2021 05:08
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I miss the days when I completely forgot about 3.0 + 1.0
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I feel like it's easy to tell someone to skip 25/26 when you view End o Evangelion as a replacement for them. I know that when I first got into the show that's how I was sold on EoE and was encouraged to skip those two episodes to get to the "real ending" quicker. Dumb internet lore bullshit being what it is, it wasn't until my 2nd or 3rd watch through that I actually came to appreciate what 26 set out to do.
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The first time I saw 25 and 26, I went in knowing their reputation. Afterwards I was like "Those are the episodes that everyone hated? That was amazing!" As a side-note, I just guided my friend, who's a big Twin Peaks and Lynch fan, through Evangelion, and it's one of his favorite things he's ever watched. For comparison, he likened episodes 25 and 26 to the last episode of Twin Peaks season 2, and End of Evangelion to Twin Peaks season 3 episode 8 (which is, uh, intense).
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Feb 9, 2021 02:09
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JazzFlight posted:I just think the TV ending is so unsatisfying as a conclusion to the literal plot of the show and EoE delivers incredibly on that front. You’re not entirely wrong but with easy access to EoE, there is absolutely no reason why they should do this. If one hates 25/26, cool, EoE will be the endgame. If they loved 25/26, poo poo is going to be all the much more powerful when everything starts tumbling down
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Feb 9, 2021 06:44
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Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dowwwwwwn
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I've been re-watching all of Evangelion for the first time in a decade or so and I think I actually like it a lot more this time around now that I'm not just sitting there going "Ugh what's with all this talking instead of fighting!" and giving more consideration to the characterization of everyone instead of just dismissing shinji as a whiny baby.
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Nuebot posted:I've been re-watching all of Evangelion for the first time in a decade or so and I think I actually like it a lot more this time around now that I'm not just sitting there going "Ugh what's with all this talking instead of fighting!" and giving more consideration to the characterization of everyone instead of just dismissing shinji as a whiny baby. This was more or less my experience when I rewatched it recently for the first time since childhood.
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Feb 10, 2021 02:11
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Oh, boy, that song at the end of Rebuild 2 is pretty terrible.
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Narzack posted:Oh, boy, that song at the end of Rebuild 2 is pretty terrible. fuckin what
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Feb 10, 2021 20:25
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Narzack posted:Oh, boy, that song at the end of Rebuild 2 is pretty terrible. this definitely ain't it
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Feb 10, 2021 20:25
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Not the credits song, the one that plays during the final ten minutes
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Narzack posted:Not the credits song, the one that plays during the final ten minutes
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Feb 10, 2021 20:39
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JazzFlight posted:The one with like, the little kids singing in Japanese? Yeah, I wasn't really a fan either, I would have much preferred another English-language song like in End of Eva or the dramatic choir singing like in Rebuild 3. Yeah, thats the one. The kid choir part wasn't as bad as the beginning with the really off-key atonal caterwauling
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Feb 10, 2021 20:45
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Narzack posted:Yeah, thats the one. The kid choir part wasn't as bad as the beginning with the really off-key atonal caterwauling Tsubasa wo Kudasai? Japanese pop song from 1970 that translates to “Please Give Me Wings”.  Of the two songs with kids singing in Rebuild 2, the song during the Unit 3 slaughter (Kyō no Hi wa Sayōnara) didn’t do it for me as music but it’s commonly played at school graduations. They were both chosen because they were thematically appropriate.
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Yeah, it's when Shinji is trying to pull Rei out. I just really didn't like the voice or singing of the person soloing at the beginning of the song.
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Feb 10, 2021 21:46
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Crossposting from wonderfest:Midjack posted:Godzilla Evangelion, coming this spring:
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To be fair to all our younger selfs, Shinji is a big whiny baby, even if he rightfully should be.
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if there happens to be any anime/joshi crossover fans here, I'm cracking up at Maki Itoh singing A Cruel Angel's Thesis and stretching beforehand, haaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEAlmvhi0UY
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shinji is super heroic because hes a scared peebaby who still goes out to get absolutely fuckin wrecked including basically dying like three times just so he can try and help its like how krillin keeps showing up to fights even though he is basically guaranteed to die and has doed twice before except shinji is a lil kid instead of a grown man
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Y'all talked me into it and im watching it. Last time i watched anime was the first time Adult Swim ran FLCL. Edit: Subtitles: We have to celebrate in style tonight. V/O: WE ARE GONNA PAAAAAAAR-TAAAAAY! UwUnabomber fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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Fereydun posted:shinji is super heroic because hes a scared peebaby who still goes out to get absolutely fuckin wrecked including basically dying like three times just so he can try and help Krillin and Yamcha are my favorite Z Fighters because not only did they keep trying for a concerning amount of time despite being mostly regular rear end people against, and along side, monsters: but they were also the ones smart enough to recognize this and just get out early. After dying like twice each.
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Regarde Aduck posted:My first Eva experience was buying 2 episodes at a time on vhs Same except my friend bought them and I just watched them lol
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Regarde Aduck posted:My first Eva experience was buying 2 episodes at a time on vhs Hel yeah tapes sucked
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The whole whiny Shinji thing is something that I never really got, even as a younger dude. He's a child, with a dead mother, an AWFUL father, stuck into a nightmare war that he doesn't understand or have any training at all for, he's abused and exploited by adults, tortured mentally by Asuka and beaten up by his peers, nearly dies over and over, is forced by his father to explode someone who finally starts showing kindness, and STILL keeps getting back in the Eva. AND HE'S A CHILD. It never made sense to me, the way people hate him. EDIT: Rebuild 3 should be called EVERYONE IS A TOTAL DICK TO SHINJI.
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