Let's see if I get more appreciation here. Acrylic on board canvas, and I don't draw that much... Only when I'm too tired to do other stuff.

What. The. Actual. Fuck. Did I just watch? This whole show was a masterpiece but I understood nothing about Instrumentality or what everyone went through in the final two episodes.

i was gonna stream it for my friend to see if we could get a specific episode in higher quality but i dont have a disc reader so cant do that lol.. maybe it would say the year when im actually using it but! im just curious because its not on the box either. i tried googling it but i couldnt find it. idk

I’ve been thinking about the train scenes in Evangelion lately, especially the way Shinji is repeatedly shown sitting alone on trains, surrounded by people but completely disconnected from them.

The obvious interpretation seems to be that the train represents Shinji being stuck in a cycle. He keeps moving forward physically, but emotionally he’s basically going nowhere. He’s constantly being carried along by circumstances and other people rather than actively choosing where his life is going.

A train is also something where you don’t control the direction you’re going. You get on, sit down, and the train takes you somewhere. That seems almost too perfect for Shinji, considering how often he simply accepts whatever happens to him rather than making his own decisions.

There’s also something interesting about how isolated he looks despite being surrounded by other passengers. Nobody is necessarily preventing him from interacting with them. He’s physically in the same space as everyone else, but psychologically completely separated.

So what do you guys think?

Are the train scenes primarily a metaphor for Shinji being passive and unable to choose his own path, or are they more about alienation, repetition, and feeling like life is moving without him?

Hey everyone, looking to get rid of these brand new model kits as a bundle if anyone is interested send me a message. I've got a lot more figures as well just hit me up thanks!😄

so I bought these off someone earlier this year, and wasn’t paying attention that the platinum collection would come loose/without the box. I wasn’t aware that the movies came with a box also until recently.

i did find someone on eBay who sold me the Blu-ray Disc of EoE by itself, because the quality of the orignal dvd release was so bad that I wanted to get rid of it.

because of that, I have the slightest hope that someone out there doesn’t want the boxes. if just like to have them to keep them together easier, especially for my incoming move.

but if I can’t, I might try and trade someone for the thinpaks—or sell these entirely for the cheaper Blu-ray, even if that means no more Fly Me To The Moon.

A little appreciation for Evangelion's Shonen battle series AU manga, Campus Apocalypse.

Set in an a universe where the Evas are magic weapons and the are humanoid entities whose cores have to be collected by the heroes.

It's an underrated series that features interesting twists on familiar characters.

Some bits I really enjoyed:

Kaji raising Shinji for 3 years prior to the series. Fatherly Kaji is always great and it provides a pretty good Watsonian explanation for why the Shinji here is more stable.

Misato still having her conflict between genuinely caring about the kids and having a mission to accomplish.

Shinji and the others having more of a genuine sense of companionship than usual. They really have more of a true companions vibe here.

Asuka's backstory (having to kill BOTH of her parents when she was little and the Angels possessed them) and her growing to respect Shinji (and maybe more).

The sense of humor. Seriously, the horse head bit is gold.

If you've finished the series and movies, but still have a hankering for Evangelion, I recommend it.

hi can anyone give me a list of art books
and what language they r in

(i don’t mind if they r in japanese or english)

mainly but i rlly wanna collect the art books but i only know about 2 of them currently!

i’ve just finished collecting the omnibus collection and want to move onto other books so any other books would be greatly appreciated recommendation!!
Thank you

Hey everyone, there might already be a thread about this here, or maybe this question has even been answered already, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.

I’d love to find the origin of the meme featuring Ayanami staring at the computer - specifically, where the Ayanami in the meme came from. I’ve asked the AI several times; it said it was from the game Ayanami Raising, Girlfriend of Steel, and I watched gameplay videos on YouTube but found nothing. I searched for CG images and found nothing either. Please help me... 😭😭😭

EDIT: GUYS, I FOUND IT! THANKS, EVERYONE!❤️
You can find it in episode 11 of NGE at the 8:53 mark

Has anyone read this one?

They look amazing together, I love how blokees make it

First of all I want to clarify that I liked most of the stories contained in the book and I think that they had some interesting concepts, but being 100% honest, I started reading Cordwainer Smith because of Evangelion, hoping it would be more profound about the topics of collective consciousness and the sort of stuff that happens in the later episodes of NGE and EoE, but the closest thing there is was just some Psychics that formed an universal goverment. I'm not saying that this makes the stories bad or anything, but I had other expectations for it.

Right now, I reached the first half of the book (The Rediscovery of man collection of stories), and I'm thinking about giving it some rest to the author. Do you know if there's other material that could have inspired the concept of human instrumentality in Eva?

Series 1 and 2 booster boxes got delivered today!

Does anyone have the book or know where to see more of the inside of the book. I was wondering if it would be worth it to buy it. As far as I saw the artbook has some "screen shots"/cells from the original anime and some sketches but I would like to see/know more about it. So if you have one or if you can point me to more information I would be grateful. Thank you.

I recently finished Neon Genesis Evangelion and watched the film End of Evangelion, and I really liked episodes 25 and 26 of NGE. I know they’re controversial, and I understand a lot of the criticisms: the production constraints, the sudden abandonment of the conspiracy plot, the lack of action. But I’ve been thinking about this psychological dimension to some of the negative reaction. It may sound harsh, but was there a kind of “crabs in a bucket” mentality in some of the negative press?

I don’t mean that everyone who dislikes the ending secretly wants Shinji to suffer. I wonder whether, for viewers who strongly identified with and related to Shinji’s loneliness, self-loathing, fear of rejection and bleak view of himself and other people (with the hedgehog dilemma), his breakthrough at the end might actually feel uncomfortable. For most of the series, Shinji’s worldview is something like: I need other people’s approval to have value; people will eventually hurt or reject me; I don’t really like myself; withdrawing is safer than putting myself out there. Then episode 26 starts dismantling that worldview. Shinji doesn’t suddenly become happy. That’s actually what I loved about it. His conclusion is that there is a chance he can end up loving himself and I found that very satisfying.

It also hit me personally because parts of Shinji’s worldview reminded me of how I thought during my own adolescence. As I’ve gotten older, my view of myself and of other people has changed considerably. So when Shinji realises that the Shinji he hates is not some immutable identity, I found it genuinely moving. The alternate-reality sequence especially drove that home for me: under different circumstances, he could have been very different. Therefore the person he currently believes himself to be is not the only person he is capable of becoming. He can finally take responsibility, do what he actually wants to do. And that made me wonder: when an audience has spent an entire series identifying with a character because that character expresses their own alienation, can it sometimes be uncomfortable when that character begins to outgrow the worldview that created that relatability?

If someone deeply relates to Shinji’s bleakness, perhaps a hopeful conclusion can feel false, unearned or even alienating, because Shinji is starting to move somewhere the viewer isn’t ready or willing to follow him. That’s what I mean by the “crabs in a bucket” idea. Not literally wanting Shinji to remain miserable, but perhaps becoming attached to the version of Shinji whose suffering validates your own worldview, and therefore resisting the moment he begins to change it.

Again, I don’t think this remotely explains all or most of the criticism of episodes 25 and 26. The structural and production criticisms are completely understandable. But I’m curious whether people think this could be one dimension of the ending’s divisive reception.