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testtubebaby
Apr 7, 2008

Where we're going,
we won't need eyes to see.


GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Come on, how is it "weird" for a show to depict a fourteen-year-old boy jerking off to a fourteen-year-old coma girl's tits in her hospital room :rolleyes:

Just another day in glorious :japan:

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mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Dr_Amazing posted:

I always thought it was weird how sexulized the characters in Evangelion were since the show clearly states they're all 14.

It makes more sense when you realize the show's chief demo were idiot pubescent kids. The problems are that catsuits are a timeless source of sexy and those idiot kids watching the show grew up and took their fetish with them.

Killer robot
Sep 6, 2010

I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it!
Pillbug

Hydrolith posted:

Pretty much.

There was zero reason for that character to be designed to be sexy other than "hurray T&A", which is objectifying.

I think it's not really a coincidence that Shirow's since basically given up manga to focus on making porn art.

moerketid
Jul 3, 2012

Dr_Amazing posted:

I always thought it was weird how sexulized the characters in Evangelion were since the show clearly states they're all 14.

Isn't this applicable to almost ALL anime?

Kugyou no Tenshi
Nov 8, 2005

We can't keep the crowd waiting, can we?

moerketid posted:

Isn't this applicable to almost ALL anime?

Evangelion seems to have been one of the few non-erotic anime that didn't up-age the characters involved in sexual/sexualized content when it was released outside Japan, so it didn't get the Nowy pass.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

poptart_fairy posted:

Nothing you say will convince me that Old Snake isn't a woman in drag.

Speaking of woman in drag, check out this Tony Stark.

10 Beers
May 21, 2005

Shit! I didn't bring a knife.

Android Bicyclist posted:

at least post pics.

Also, dear gods, maybe please put what character they're cosplaying as?

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012






Left to right: Alex, Clover, Sam from Totally Spies/

InequalityGodzilla
May 31, 2012

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VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

If they ever make a Powergirl movie, she should be the first at the casting call.

KillerEggplant
Apr 2, 2011

Dr_Amazing posted:

I always thought it was weird how sexulized the characters in Evangelion were since the show clearly states they're all 14.

It's been suggested that Evangelion is deliberately creepy to point up the creepiness of the standard anime tropes it's using, as a critical comment about the genre. No idea how accurate that is, but it's an interesting theory, anyway.

Beefstew
Oct 30, 2010

I told you that story so I could tell you this one...

VendaGoat posted:

If they ever make a Powergirl movie, she should be the first at the casting call.

I would ideally have Tallest Silver play Peej. She really gets the personality down.









Of course, we'll never actually get a Power Girl movie because DC has a strict "No Fun Allowed" policy with their films.

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan
Is Power Girl still allergic to sticks?

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



KillerEggplant posted:

It's been suggested that Evangelion is deliberately creepy to point up the creepiness of the standard anime tropes it's using, as a critical comment about the genre. No idea how accurate that is, but it's an interesting theory, anyway.

Sounds like that theory was invented by Evangelion fans.

glomkettle
Sep 24, 2013

I'm pretty sure no one hates Evangelion fans more than the director. What that means with regards to that particular theory I couldn't really say.

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

KillerEggplant posted:

It's been suggested that Evangelion is deliberately creepy to point up the creepiness of the standard anime tropes it's using, as a critical comment about the genre. No idea how accurate that is, but it's an interesting theory, anyway.

It's also been suggested that vaccines cause autism

glomkettle posted:

I'm pretty sure no one hates Evangelion fans more than the director. What that means with regards to that particular theory I couldn't really say.

Well, it's their own drat fault. Legit depressed crazy person pours his heart and soul into a project that delights millions of people, only to get piles of death threats when it's over because he "didn't end it right." I can't think of a more appropriate and level-headed response under those circumstances than re-doing the ending so that everybody dies and including screenshots and photos of some of the death threats in a montage.

Idiot fans are the worst :smith:

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer
I didn't really did Evangelion. It wasn't the 14 yer old girls or anything, it was just the whiny protagonist who just... sucks the entire show down with him. He basically just never stops being a whiny asshat, even when he's driving a giant fuckoff robot.

I watched the american version so I have no idea what the hell people are talking about with the coma girl and I'm pretty glad about that.

That girl's an amazing PG.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I watched the american version so I have no idea what the hell people are talking about with the coma girl and I'm pretty glad about that.

It was a thing in one of the movies, either Death & Rebirth or End of Evangelion, I forget.

Erebus
Jul 13, 2001

Okay... Keep your head, Steve boy...

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I didn't really did Evangelion. It wasn't the 14 yer old girls or anything, it was just the whiny protagonist who just... sucks the entire show down with him. He basically just never stops being a whiny asshat, even when he's driving a giant fuckoff robot.

This is actually more of the focus of the theory that the show is deliberately off-putting. Evangelion is meant to take all the tropes of anime (the unassertive main character wimp, the emotionless girl, the drunk sexpot, etc.) and crank them up to 11 to show that they're all horrible, broken human beings and you really shouldn't be liking these people.

Then everyone liked those people anyway and welp

Anyway here are some Ritsukos because she is probably one of the least popular cosplay choices from that show







GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

kirbysuperstar posted:

It was a thing in one of the movies, either Death & Rebirth or End of Evangelion, I forget.

It was The End of Evangelion, which was really just a re-do of the last two episodes of the series, and loving amazing for the level of dickery by Hideaki Anno. I swear you can hear him cackling throughout the whole thing.

Nobody succeeds at anything in the re-do episodes. Everyone fails, and most everybody dies horribly, and at the very end, Shinji decides to actually do something for himself for the first time in his miserable life and tries strangling Asuka, and fails at that, too. The last line of the last episode is Asuka saying "you disgust me."

"YOU WANTED A BETTER ENDING?!?!?! HERE'S YOUR BETTER ENDING, FUCKERS!!!"

edit:

quote:


This one is really clever.

GOTTA STAY FAI has a new favorite as of 00:23 on Mar 20, 2015

snipermonkey
Jun 30, 2010
I don't think they were supposed to be unlikeable, just screwed up people in a screwed up world. I mean one characters mother had committed suicide, main characters mother was dead and had a bad father, who tried to reunite with his wife and lastly a clone of the wife. Plus a post apocalyptic world being attacked by weird monsters among other things. That kind of explains their weird personalities.

Edit: I think the ending of the series was Lost bad. But didn't the shows budget get slashed and that's why the ending was kind of weird?

snipermonkey has a new favorite as of 00:29 on Mar 20, 2015

Dr. Lunchables
Dec 27, 2012

IRL DEBUFFED KOBOLD



Sweet anime chat, dweebs. At least fake like you're talking about cosplay.

snipermonkey
Jun 30, 2010
Anime is serious business.

veedubfreak
Apr 2, 2005

by Smythe

Lord Frisk posted:

Sweet anime chat, dweebs. At least fake like you're talking about cosplay.



They're standing on the wrong sides.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




*runs into the thread breathless and sweaty*

H-*pant* hey, stop caring about anime-

Lord Frisk posted:

Sweet anime chat, dweebs. At least fake like you're talking about cosplay.



sunuvabitch!

Boomerjinks
Jan 31, 2007

DINO DAMAGE
These two visited our booth at Denver Comic Con last year. They were drunk as fuuuuuuuck.



Colors are less accurate, but holy poo poo that coiffed hair.

Boomerjinks has a new favorite as of 02:51 on Mar 20, 2015

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

Boomerjinks posted:

These two visited our booth at Denver Comic Con last year. They were drunk as fuuuuuuuck.



Colors are less accurate, but holy poo poo that quaffed hair.

Drank hair? You're going to give me a coiffing fit.

Jamesman
Nov 19, 2004

"First off, let me start by saying curly light blond hair does not suit Hyomin at all. Furthermore,"
Fun Shoe

rodbeard posted:

Speaking of woman in drag, check out this Tony Stark.



You sure that isn't just Anthony Le?

Boomerjinks
Jan 31, 2007

DINO DAMAGE

joat mon posted:

Drank hair? You're going to give me a coiffing fit.

My apologies. Here's a cool Jesse cosplay, complete with Coffees.

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

Boomerjinks posted:

My apologies. Here's a cool Jesse cosplay, complete with Coffees.



Your homophonia has been noted.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

joat mon posted:

Your homophonia has been noted.



:v: they're not as funny :v:

McPantserton
Jan 19, 2005

IRONICALLY SWEALTERING
Armored Sailor Scouts, starring Jessica Nigri and friends!


Queen Ariel by Lanthea Cosplay, not finished yet and obv a bathroom selfie but it's looking so nice I thought I'd share anyway


One million ruffles in a Sakizou design by Becka Noel Studios

boo_radley
Dec 30, 2005

Politeness costs nothing

Say Nothing posted:

Post things, not words.


:v:

Liar Lyre
Jun 3, 2011

Here to deliver
~Bad Opinions~

McPantserton posted:

One million ruffles in a Sakizou design by Becka Noel Studios


I think this is the only costume that has ever made me hungry.

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


Liar Lyre posted:

I think this is the only costume that has ever made me hungry.

Me too :heysexy:

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Have a Gumball.

InequalityGodzilla
May 31, 2012

Would.

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



Liar Lyre posted:

I think this is the only costume that has ever made me hungry.

Not Mayor McCheese? Or Big Mac?

Norse Code
Mar 10, 2007

DON'T AWOO - $350 PENALTY

McPantserton posted:

One million ruffles in a Sakizou design by Becka Noel Studios


Oh man, this makes me yearn for Vienetta...

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McPantserton
Jan 19, 2005

IRONICALLY SWEALTERING

Norse Code posted:

Oh man, this makes me yearn for Vienetta...

It's designed after a vienetta so I suppose that's good!

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