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50% anime fans are idiots.
50% assholes.

You read the fanfiction some of them have written and you tend to agree.

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Originally posted by wu_konguk:
Hmm episode 8. Now if memory serves me correct a certain character favourite of David A makes her fist appearence in that episode   

Ah, yes. Asuka. From what I've heard, she's very annoying. But she looks cute as hell. I can make that latter claim just looking at the side of the new Eva box I got that came with the DVD. I'll be looking foward to it.
 

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Originally posted by spacepilot3000:
 Ah, yes. Asuka. From what I've heard, she's very annoying. But she looks cute as hell. I can make that latter claim just looking at the side of the new Eva box I got that came with the DVD. I'll be looking foward to it.
 

Oh Asuka.  The bitchiness is completely evaporated the farther you go into the series.  Well, maybe not exactly, but you'll understand why exactly she's like that.  Plus, she is incredibly cute.

On a related Evangelion topic, is it possible to be both a fan of Asuka and Rei? Because I seem like the only person who "loves" both of them with no ill will toward the other.

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@nurdbot & nerdlingus- that's good, I'll know to steer clear of anime fan boards in future- someone might get hurt... again...

@evan- Rei is great, I only wish she'd been developed more in the series. I have a sort of love/hate relationship with Asuka- when she's bitchy she can be annoying, but eventually you see throught that and realise she's probably more fragile then all the other characters. Then I really feel sorry for her. And this happens as early as episode 9.

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Lurrr: I can link you to the crappest anime fanfics.

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Originally posted by evan:
On a related Evangelion topic, is it possible to be both a fan of Asuka and Rei? Because I seem like the only person who "loves" both of them with no ill will toward the other.

Sure.  Why not?  I think that Rei is pretty cool.

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Originally posted by evan:
 
On a related Evangelion topic, is it possible to be both a fan of Asuka and Rei? Because I seem like the only person who "loves" both of them with no ill will toward the other.

YES. 

Rei is awesome, not to mention H-O-T.
I've already made my comments on Asuka.   

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Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Lurrr: I can link you to the crappest anime fanfics.

Ahhh, Anthony Dantuono, where have you gone?

Anyway, I used to despise Rei...but that was only 'cause she reminded me of an ex-girlfriend who would Never. Talk. Ever.  Years have gone by and I sympathize with her more and more, poor girl.  Plus imagine how cold she must have been during the movie.     

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Pitt: Pffft, prepared to be dazzled.
 http://www.tmffa.com/old/x/tales_of_adam01.txt

Look for the other 4 by him if you want to be bedazzled by the crappiness.

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I'm gonna have to back Spirited Away. I'm not much of an anime fan and I still fell in love with that film.

I also have Princess Mononoke which is good too.

I dunno if this counts as anime, but some of the animatrix films were OK. I think that kinda counts as Anime for Dummies...

I have to say I didn't like Akira. Too out there for me.

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Just saw Bebop the movie. All in all, pretty cool, but it doesn't measure up to some of the better episodes of the series. Still serious kicks ass though.

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I, too, love both Asuka and Rei. They're so gorgeous, it makes up for the fact that Asuka's got major issues and Rei's a ice queen. Shinji doesn't have very much to redeem his whininess..
Ritsuko and Maya are still my favorite characters, though. I've cosplayed both of them.

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I think this was in one of the few issues of Animerica I picked up, but said issue listed all these themes and "facts" about Evangelion.  Taking Sigmund Freud into consideration,  Asuka's the id and Rei's the superego.  There is this tension that tends to rip the two apart, and why Shinji can only side with one at a time.

If you don't believe the fan-fics involving hot three-way sex. Lol

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Is anyone here a fan of the show Case Closed, I got into it a few weeks ago. It's a rather clever show about and really smart Lawyer named Jimmy that gets turned into a little kid. He then changes his name to Conan and starts sloving cases with his girlfriend who doesn't know that Jimmy has been turned into a child. It airs on Adult Swim at 10:00 est. and 1:00 wst.

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Now how in the hell are you going to call Asuka an Id, when you have Unit-f*ing-01 in the same damn show.  I think it was more likeThe three females were portraying for shinji the "Three faces of mother" "Mother" (Misato) "Person" (Rei) "Woman" (Asuka) of course to build dramatic tension each of the female roles, the trio completely assumes these roles [Rei has no real face other than just a person who interacts, Misato assumes the role of nuturing mother, and Asuka drips with bold feminism] at the same time they also are horrible at being in these roles.  Rei is tottally indifferent to people, Misato is an Alchoholic, and Asuka can't get past her own pride.  So Shinji seeking to re-connect with these matronly atributes he has never truly known only finds himself more astranged to women, and his concept of mother than ever before.

In the industry we call this "Drama."

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Originally posted by Pitt Clemens:
So Shinji finds himself more astranged to women, and his concept of mother than ever before.

And then Nagisa Kaworu shows up trying to persuade Shinji to bat for the other team.

Poor chap.

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Thing is about Kaworu. He was one of the only characters (apart from his mother) to show Shinji true affection. This is also probably why he felt so betrayed by him/it.

Now I like both Rei and Asuka with more of a leaning to Asuka. Just one thing

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Don't people think that Shinji getting together with Rei is abit sick. I eman she has thesoul of the the mother of all humans (Lilith) and her body is the a clone of his own mother. Just seems abit sick to me

I was just looking through ANIDB (great site) and I saw an extra episode called "After the end". Now I posted a pic in the anime pic post with the same name but I thought it was a mock up pic but now I am more curious, does anyone know about this episode?

Anywho. I just started reading One Piece and I have got to say it is great. I mean it has a guy made of Rubber and pirates, what more do you need?

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Go Rei. Yay Rei! Rei. Yep.

(Not that I hate Asuka, mind... it's just Rei has the whole... 'Rei' thing going... if I have to pick only one mentally disturbed 15 year old, it's got to be her.)

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@Wu

Yep, I agree.
But thats only because I've seen the series now.

For the first half (or was it two thirds?) the Shinji and Rei thing was definately plausible.

And as with Slacky, I'm all for Rei.  I used to hate Asuka until I saw EoE but either way Rei still rocks my boat.   

Reminds me of that Seat car ad playing on UK tv at the mo....

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Slacky, shame on you trying to sound 'not so bad' by telling yourself she's 15.
Down one more I think.

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Really?

Oh well, she's still mentally disturbed and cool. Like all the best women are. Except for the ones that try to kill you. Stay away from those ones.

Incidently, wu_konguk when did that whole

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Rei is a clone of Shinji's mother and carries the soul of Lilith

thing come up? Though, now that you mention it, it makes a lot of sense.

Is that in that last movie? I'll see it one day...

(Of course, the possiblity exists that it came up in the show and I forgot about it... it's been a while.)

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Around episodes 22-24 (not sure about 25 though) and yes, in the Eva movie too.

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Originally posted by nerdlingus:
 And then Nagisa Kaworu shows up trying to persuade Shinji to bat for the other team.

Poor chap.   

And you know there's a good possibility that in one short night, he may have just stepped up to that plate...and took a whack at it.   

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Crap, damn spoiler box temptation!

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...and took a whack at it.

Didn't he do that at the begining of EoE? Whoops, I'm thinking of something else 

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Originally posted by wu_konguk:

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and her body is the a clone of his own mother.

That bit alone makes it very, very wrong.

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I mean, sure, she's not really his mom, but it's still incest.

 

Originally posted by Nurdy:
Crap, damn spoiler box temptation!

Resist the temptation, Nurdy.  You don't wan't to end up like me.

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Originally posted by David A:

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I mean, sure, she's not really his mom, but it's still incest.

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Yeah, but I don't see Rei as the kind of person who's interested in a physical relationship. It's obvious she has an emotional attatchment to Shinji (which I read as 'love') but I don't think that extends physically. Either way, we all know that Shinji would end up with Asuka anyway.

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Originally posted by Lurrr:
 Didn't he do that at the begining of EoE? Whoops, I'm thinking of something else   

Ugh, only a mentally screwed up Japanese boy could do that.

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Well, you know what they say when an opportunity arises.


Edit.

For those that do read fanfics and have seen the Eva series etc.. then I recommend this fic. Its comedy based, so there isn't much shippyness in it if any at all.
Without trying to sound to much like a plug though, do read, its one of the funniest fics I've ever read.

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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:


Incidently, wu_konguk when did that whole

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Rei is a clone of Shinji's mother and carries the soul of Lilith

thing come up? Though, now that you mention it, it makes a lot of sense.

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She was hinted at being Yui's clone in the flash back episode. When Dr Akagi is strangling her, she looks at her and exclaims "Yui" just before she kills herself.

the Lilith's soul bit is really confirmed in EOE

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If Rei and Shinji did it...oh wait, they did.  Well it may be as bad as having sex with his astranged half-sister, but it's not technically his mother, Rei has angel DNA and it's not like he's going in where he came out.

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That won't be much consolation when he sees the kids 

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@Wu: Nobody said it yet.. But a few posts up, the 'After the End' pic.. Is it the three children slightly older? With Shinji holding Asuka, and Rei naked as usual? I found that a while back and was dismayed to learn that it's only a REALLY REALLY good fanart.
And the whole Lilith and Yui and Rei thing... Who cares? Shinji's too busy strangling/jacking off over Asuka to get involved.
EDIT: Pitt!

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You should know that doesn't count! It was the LCL sea and the breakdown of the AT field, therefore everyone is the same person, therefore the two of them are more like conjoined twins than two people copulating. Just look at Rei's hands! ..I won't deny the suggestive nature of the pose, of course..

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Well this is the pic i found



Also from what I found out. "After the End" is an extra audio track from the End of eva adn some one made a fun sub of it using still frames. It's taking forever to download as well :grr:

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LUNCH!

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Would you mind telling me what parts of their bodies ARE maintaining their AT-fields?

Shinji takes Rei's hand and thanks her, Fade out....Fade in, new position.  Who's to say what happens during a dissolve?  The fact that Rei and Shinji are in a convoluted way related to eachother is not nearly as creepy as the fact that Rei is the angel of death.

Also: I do remember that fanart.  Damn near tricked me into believing that a second Eva series was pending.  Really put the fear of God in me, I tell you.

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Maybe the merging of AT fields is like the Great link is Deep Space 9 where the changlings merge into one, which for them was alot like sex.

The problem with the second half of the film is trying to decern reality to waht is going on in Shinji's head. There is a theory that the second half of the movie is all in Shinji's head basically with Shinji trying to convince himself that he deserves to live.

This goes with the bit on the beach when he is strangling Asuka, since Asuka can be seen as his self loathing. This kind of fits the fact that when he fails she say's

"How disgusting"

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Originally posted by Pitt Clemens:

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The fact that Rei and Shinji are in a convoluted way related to eachother is not nearly as creepy as the fact that Rei is the angel of death.

Um, yes, yes it is.  In fact, it's creepier.

You know, all of these spoiler tags are getting annoying.  Maybe it's time for that Eva thread that you and I were talking about, Wu.

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Aye. You may be right. If you can think of a good name for it then I'm all ears.

May be something like

Are you ready for Third impact?

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Originally posted by wu_konguk:
If you can think of a good name for it then I'm all ears.

Eh, I'm probably the wrong person to ask.  I'd probably just end up calling it "Asuka Strikes" or something.

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Originally posted by wu_konguk:

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Maybe the merging of AT fields is like the Great link is Deep Space 9 where the changlings merge into one, which for
them was alot like sex.

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This goes with the bit on the beach when he is strangling Asuka, since Asuka can be seen as his self loathing. This kind of fits the fact that when he fails she say's

"How disgusting"

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Continuing with the Evangelion/Freud connotations I made before, there really is an "Absolute Terror Field" that Sigmund Freud discussed.  In Freud's view, the AT Field kept human beings' souls seperate from each other, which is an interesting turn for a 'forcefield.'  Rei and Shinji's AT Fields merging together could be a sign that they finally accepted each other and would merge their souls.

On point two, in the original (illegal) subtitled version I had of End of Eva, Asuka's last line is ommitted.  Is this just because of the copy, or was it really like that in the Japanese version?

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Originally posted by evan:
On point two, in the original (illegal) subtitled version I had of End of Eva, Asuka's last line is ommitted.  Is this just because of the copy, or was it really like that in the Japanese version?

I'm pretty sure that her line isn't actually omitted in the Japanese version, but what exactly her line is varies depending on the translation you've got.  At least, that's what I've heard.  I've never seen EoE, so I wouldn't really know.