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GorfZaplen posted:Are we watching the Director's Cut versions of the applicable episodes for this simul? Yah. I encourage people to talk about the differences when the time comes though!
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Dec 29, 2015 03:48
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Also, these blu-rays are gorgeous. HD remastered old anime is baller as hell. The first episode is just a drat good introduction all around. One thing that's always stuck with me even as a dumbass teenager is how the second episode is paced. It's something I've really grown to love; we don't immediately see the climax that the first episode was building towards and we're left wondering what the hell happened for a little while. It was the first time I ever saw something like that in a show and it made a hell of an impression on me. It wouldn't have the same impact in movie format though, so I understand why the first Rebuild movie showed it chronologically. I wanna type more things but I gotta get some sleep and maybe I'll be more coherent in the morning.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:56
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These two episodes were really good. I'm gonna keep up with this.
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Srice posted:Also, these blu-rays are gorgeous. HD remastered old anime is baller as hell. Seeing really nice transfers makes me nostalgic for film.
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Srice posted:One thing that's always stuck with me even as a dumbass teenager is how the second episode is paced. It's something I've really grown to love; we don't immediately see the climax that the first episode was building towards and we're left wondering what the hell happened for a little while. It was the first time I ever saw something like that in a show and it made a hell of an impression on me. It wouldn't have the same impact in movie format though, so I understand why the first Rebuild movie showed it chronologically. It also plays with the viewer a bit. Nobody says a word about Unit 01 going berserk and smashing the poo poo out of the Angel, so a fresh viewer might be led to assume that Shinji managed to beat it somehow. But then you get to the end, and welp. Motto fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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I managed to quite thoroughly miss the simultaneous portion of the simulwatch, so I'm still on episode 1. I'd forgotten how goofy a lot of it feels, like the 50m/s missile and the three people giving their expressions of outrage at the failure of the mine in order of their seating positions, the closest sitting down to allow the next closest to exclaim in his turn. Still, the art and character designs are still gorgeous even after 20 years.
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Dec 29, 2015 06:09
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Motto posted:It also plays with the viewer a bit. Nobody says a word about Unit 01 going berserk and smashing the poo poo out of the Angel, so a fresh viewer might be led to assume that Shinji managed to beat it somehow. But then you get to the end, and welp. Yeah it owns. I really don't like what Rebuild 1.11 does with the equivalent of these events by rewriting the events to go in chronological order, so EVA-01 going berserk happens more or less immediately after the events of "episode 1". Spoiler tagged just in case.
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Dec 29, 2015 06:22
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Dec 29, 2015 07:16
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Haven't watched Evangelion for many years and I still have memorized so much of it. And yeah, Misato's voice is kinda too young/high.
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Don't forget that Misato's voice is Sailor Moon and Evangelion was made at the height of that shows popularity. Eva loved casting it's female characters against type, Rei is Megumi Hayashibara, most famous for being female Ranma at the time.
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Dec 29, 2015 08:42
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mistao doesn't sound too young if you listen to english like a cool kid
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Yeah but then you have to listen to Kermit the Frog as Shinji.
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Sakurazuka posted:Yeah but then you have to listen to Kermit the Frog as Shinji. It's awkward as hell but ultimately fits the character.
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Bit late cause I was exhausted last night. These first two episodes were more than enough to hook me when I originally saw them. Although I had already seen Gunbuster and The Wings of Honneamise before so I had some idea of what to expect from Gainax. They also did a pretty good job making me sympathetic to Shinji as well, Gendo is a truly hateful person from the outset and even Misato and her extremely messed up lifestyle didn't win me over. Highlight being Misato's 'joke' to Ritsuko over the phone, loving hell lady. On rewatches I find it quite interesting how quickly Sachiel breaks through to the Geofront, it just blows a hole through the city/armour layer like nothing.
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l33tc4k30fd00m posted:They also did a pretty good job making me sympathetic to Shinji as well, Gendo is a truly hateful person from the outset and even Misato and her extremely messed up lifestyle didn't win me over. Highlight being Misato's 'joke' to Ritsuko over the phone, loving hell lady. Indeed, indeed. Shinji might be a whiny, sullen sot, but it's not as if he doesn't have drat good reason to be as he is. One of my favorite establishing moments ever is the bit with Shinji, Gendo and the elevator: not a word between them, but an awkward silence that speaks volumes. Also nthing all the praise for the pacing in these first episodes; everything's handled so tantalizingly, and I knew, I'd be seeing this one through. (Much to my fathers chagrin, of course; the first time I watched, he watched with me, and he never really cared for anime. I was 15-16, as I recall.)
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Honestly Shinji acted like a normal, if somewhat awkward, kid up until he entered Unit 01's chamber.
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resurgam40 posted:
I have a similar story. I was watching it on my new desktop just prior to leaving for college in 2002 and my father walked into the room, declared "That's porn!" and walked to the basement to shut off the power. From that point onward I was a lot more careful not to watch anime with other people around. Of course, that also led to me not watching ANY anime except things that were recommended to me for the next 10 years (pretty much only code geass and ttgl), so clearly it was worth the embarrassment.
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Srice posted:The Evangelion blu-rays are out, and the busy holidays are behind us. It's time to watch the classic 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. I can't believe I missed this
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darealkooky posted:The first ep of evangelion is still loving genius and the standard I hold the first ep of every series to. The first six episode are drat near flawless. Probably the reason why they didn't really touch them at all for the rebuilds
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Dec 29, 2015 16:24
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I probably won't be able to watch until the weekend because of NYE stuff but I have been holding off on watching the blu Ray copies for a while now. So stoked to jump back into it.
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Kytrarewn posted:I have a similar story. I was watching it on my new desktop just prior to leaving for college in 2002 and my father walked into the room, declared "That's porn!" and walked to the basement to shut off the power. lol
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Kytrarewn posted:I have a similar story. I was watching it on my new desktop just prior to leaving for college in 2002 and my father walked into the room, declared "That's porn!" and walked to the basement to shut off the power. Lol nice
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I watched all of Nichijou in a public library and felt pretty ok about it.
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Dec 29, 2015 16:29
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Question for anyone that knows japanese: the word for angel they use is "shito" while the more common word for angel in anime is "tenshi". What's the difference?
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Droyer posted:Question for anyone that knows japanese: the word for angel they use is "shito" while the more common word for angel in anime is "tenshi". What's the difference? Shito means "apostle". Gainax asked for it to be translated as "angel" for the English release, though.
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Oh neat. They do use tenshi in the opening.
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I always have, and always will, love the roar 01 has.
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a kitten posted:Oh crap, it's Eva o'clock. Check again
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Droyer posted:Check again I'm sick today ok? 
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I'm doing this but I'm not holding back. I finished episode 8 last night. I will hold back on the discussion and keep it to the episodes watched. Hopefully, I won't get too confused. I never saw this before, so I didn't have a clue what happened after the first battle. I assumed the evil angel went away on its own and all was fine for some reason. Some thoughts: 1. The idea of having to use a power cord is really great. They could've invented some nuclear fusion or fission power source, but instead, they give the mech some sort of tether. Really nice touch. 2. Shinji's desire to not pilot the mech is fairly realistic. I wish they'd give us more detail on how he was selected, though. Just because he's the son of the director isn't the reason, I'm sure. That's just coincidental. 3. They don't tell us why the director treats his son like poo poo, and we should know that. I hope we find out. My guess is that the mom died in some way and Shinji is just a painful reminder of the wife, etc. The director is an rear end.
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Dan7el posted:I'm doing this but I'm not holding back. I finished episode 8 last night. I will hold back on the discussion and keep it to the episodes watched. Hopefully, I won't get too confused. The angel was killed at the end of the first battle. It exploded.
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Droyer posted:The angel was killed at the end of the first battle. It exploded. Later, I was happily surprised to see what happened after Shinji more or less lost it and somehow managed to destroy the evil angel. I guess another cool thing about the show is that Shinji, the reluctant hero, is really incredibly gifted in terms of sync'ing with his mech and fighting -- even if it's on an unconscious level. My guess is, and this is only a guess, as I've not seen past episode 8, that a large part of his growth will be Shinji's merging his conscious abilities with his unconscious abilities and becoming fairly bad rear end overall. Also, the fact that he's able to do more than Rei and is less willing, less trained, and less forthgoing about it all is pretty nice. At least, Shinji can do more than Rei can right now. So far, Rei's just been wounded and we've been threatened with the possibility of her piloting a mech by herself, but she hasn't yet except for when she shields Shinji and that was only barely piloting it and she still ended up wounded. I also hope Shinji turns the tables on his father somehow. The dad says, "Hey Shiji, you're pretty bad-rear end now. Let's do lunch." and Shinji says, "Why would I want to do that?"
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something to always keep in mind about shinji and his desire to not get in the robot is that any damage you take in an evangelion gets mentally transfered to you. it's kinda just thrown out in one sentence when ritsuko tries to calm shinji down about how it's not real, but in ep 1 when unit 01 it's arm gets ripped off, he feels as though he just lost an arm. when unit 01 gets pounded in the head he feels like that's happening to him, when (not really important spoiler for ep 3) he gets set on fire for several seconds he feels like he's burning alive and so on and so forth. the fact that shinji is A still keeping at it and B not a complete wreck mentally is pretty heroic, imo
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I'm not gonna watch this again but keep posting first thoughts cause they're great, it's nice reading thoughts from someone who hasn't watched the series 2 times.
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Mr E posted:I'm That said, I will definitely watch final run of episodes with everyone, because they are my favourite and were very important to me when I was a little Knorth A Doomed Purloiner posted:This show introduced a lot of Australians to anime due to a combination of being shown nationwide on free to air, and being a really good show that generated plenty of word of mouth. SBS actually gave it a second time slot just so new viewers could watch it from the start. SBS was the best channel oh my god  It was the first time I was ever actually into a TV show, I was really upset when our VCR broke and I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch one of the final episodes live...
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I cannot claim to have gone through a transcendent experience after watching Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was apparently a thing for other people, because the hype and the rumors were so huge that in the end I was already expecting something crazy rather than being surprised by everything. But my appreciation for the TV series increased by leaps and bounds the second or third time around, so I agree that it has definitely stood the test of time. One way or another, it is a very important work of art/entertainment and deserves to be critically discussed. There's a lot of both artistic and technical merit to be found here, in terms of animation as well as characterization and narrative, regardless of whatever you want to make of Hideaki Anno's underlying message (and whatever he is intending to do with the new films). That said, even if my posts won't be very frequent, I hope to try and catch up with the simulwatch this weekend.
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