No.20624
This has always bothered me
>be asked to pilot amazing robot
>be asked to live with hot girls who are forced to interact with you
>hate all of it
Why?
No.20625
Lack of confidence and self-hating. Didn't you watch the anime?
No.20627
Robots are dangerous. Eva's girls are 3DPD.
No.20630
There were already shows about boys controlling giant robots around that time period. Anno wanted to subvert the trend. People who spout: "Get in the robot Shinji" either did not watch the show or did not realize that it was about understanding that it is okay to exist; that it is okay to love yourself and it is natural for you to be hurt and to hurt others in life.
No.20632
>>20624
You haven't browsed >>>/r9k/ lately, have you?
No.20636
>>20632
Why would he go to such a horrible place?
No.20642
>>20632
>>20636
Yep its a place anyone would want to visit.
http://archive.is/Way04
No.20646
Because you have the worst possible taste in girls, OP.
No.20668
>>20624
>grow up alone
>used to being alone
>enjoy being alone
>be forced to live with damaged strangers who are abusive and judge your every action with disapproval
>even worse, they're girls so you can't even joke around with them like you would a guy
>then be told the entire fate of the world rests on your shoulders
>if you fuck up everyone is gone
the real question is why didn't they find someone else
No.20683
>>20624
Anon, he's gay and a hikki by nature.
Forcing him to live with a bunch of chicks is the opposite of a good time for him.
He also lacks roboting experience. Too much pressure to ask him to pilot that thing with the fate of the world in his hands.
No.20684
>>20683
>Too much pressure to ask him to pilot that thing with the fate of the world in his hands.
This. He's a quiet and shy guy and definitely doesn't like the very idea of piloting the giant robot and saving humanity. He just want to to be left alone.
No.20691
>be asked to pilot amazing robot
<a task of which he had zero knowledge, and when he pointed this out, everyone said, "That's okay. We just need a warm body inside the robot."
<and then they roll out the previous pilot's mangled, bleeding body
>be asked to live with hot girls who are forced to interact with you
<one of which is a self-absorbed slut with daddy issues
<the other is a self-absorbed, abusive cunt with mommy issues
>hate all of it
<with good cause
When you want to talk about a series, it helps to have watched it.
No.20727
Despite Shinji being someone I dislike the guy has been legit fucked over hard. Rebuild in a way was even worse to him as he is actually a bit more well adjusted then he was in NGE.
>He is given even more pressure then before due to finding out the truth of Lilith
>Gendo outright let's him suffer the beam attack for a good bit while he screams in pure agony
>No one really gives a shit about him and only see him as tool
>In the unit 3 shit he actually tries to fight back but can't due to the very high fact he'll kill Asuka
>Father uses a way to force unit 1 to mangle unit 3 in the most fucked way possible while he can feel unit 1 tear and eat unit 3
>Rei the one person who genuinely loves him with no strings attached and wants the best for him is eaten
>Fused into the Angel while it tries to kill everyone
>He while trying to save her causes the 3rd impact
>3rd movie just fucks him harder then NGE ever could
No.20732
Shinji is just a huge faggot that only wanted the gay angel dick.
Just ignore the story and enjoy the mecha action.
No.20847
>>20732
>only wanted the gay angel dick
Oh, really? Hm, but why is that so? Well, I don't know… Let me think…
Maybe because Kaoru is the only one who was really kind to Shinji, wanted to help and support him?
No.20859
Eva is the one anime that killed of the Super Robo genre. It's influence makes people think that every show with giant mechs needs some form of DEEEEPPPPP and MATURRREEEEEE themes that will be prioritized more than mech battles. Not only that, it inspired the So beta can't even masturbate Male Characters to be mass produced in bulk and polluting mech anime with their Beta bullshit. Fuck Annon for creating Eva. The fact that he keeps remaking Eva after all these years in proof that the shows popularity was only a fluke. Fuck Anoo and I hope that a Godzilla goes to Japan and rampages Tokyo to visit's Annoo Doghouse and chomps off his head like Gendo.
No.20862
Wasn't EVA meant as total fuck you to Otakus but ended up being popular?
No.20865
>>20862
It was, Anno tried to repeat the same idea with the animation project with all the shorts and the MeMeMe video, which also became popular with otaku. At this point I think the 3rd rebuild film is on indefinite hiatus mostly due to Anno's spiteful nature and his internal conflict of making a living on the people he "hates."
Either way it doesn't matter because Anno is a hack with mental problems and Darling in the Franxx is going to end up better than the trainwreck of the Eva rebuilds anyway.
No.20870
>>20859
>every show with giant mechs
>deep and mature
>So beta can't even masturbate Male Characters
No.20871
>>20865
The final film is being made.
No.20874
>>20871
Got a source on that? I'm anticipating a disaster after the clusterfuck from the last film.
No.20894
>>20876
>april/17
Development limbo can be a curse. Sometimes it's better to not come out of it.
Or do come out, even if it's trash, just so we can have closure
No.20963
>>20894
I just want it to finally end.
No.20980
>>20870
Star Driver was great. It's weird though that the Trio literally looks like Tai, Matt, and Kari from Digimon though.
No.21139
NGE was overrated to begin with, the only good thing it did was kill the over-saturation of mecha shows.
No.21166
>hey, 14 year old kid, you're going to war
>also you'll be fighting horrible alien monstrosities
>but you get to drive a cool tank
>but the tank is also a horrible monstrosity, and you get to share it's pain
>but you get to hang out with cute girls
>but one them is an insufferable bitch and mentally ill, and the other is an inhuman abomination
>why aren't you having fun?
No.31110
>>21166
He just wanted a mother's love
No.31118
>>31110
I expected something comfy like a hug
No.35287
>>20668
Cos EVA-01 was the essence/soul/spirit of Shinji's mother. Hence the good synchronization rates.
No.35309
>>20668
>the real question is why didn't they find someone else
The only thing about Eva that will never stop being so confusing, is how he hell do people manage to miss the point that not a single person higher up than Misato gives a fuck about saving the world?
Hell, the only organization in the world vaguely interested in protecting anything, was the Jet Alone devs.
No.44874
Evangelion was so popular that Japanese zaibatsu named a disc after Blue Rei. Then changes her plug-suit color scheme.
>why?
No.44891
>>44874
She looks good in black
No.44903
>>20627
Anno intentionally tried to make the girls unlikable and got disappointed when people waifu them.
No.44993
>>35309
Because the Illuminati want to bring about third impact, that's why.
No.45003
EVA is like Seinfeld except where Seinfeld is terrible people having bad things happen to them for comedic purposes EVA is terrible people having bad things happen to them for dramatic purposes. The only reason anyone even talks about it still is because the plot was so oblique and requires a thesis worth of unexplained background information to understand. I'm also not immune to being a sucker for mystery but that's all EVA has going for it. No one talks about Nadia which is terrible people having bad things happen to them for no reason because its plot is straight forward.
No.45008
>>45003
I wish Nadia was more popular.
Shinji was originally supposed to be a girl like Nadia, but then they changed her into a boy.
Shinji is whiny Nadia with a dick.
No.45012
>>44903
He really must have been fucked in the head from depression to forget that people can be into to femdom and hatefucking.
Hell, even for Rei, even if you say that kuudere didn't take off that much back then, people have been getting off to mysterious/alien bitches just fine before.
No.45021
>>45008
>Shinji is whiny Nadia with a dick.
In line with that, I always liked to imagine a constantly PMSing slutwhore of a Shinjiko who can't pilot for shit, and instead of being depressed about existential stuff throws fits over not enough vegan lunch items at NERV's caffeteria.
No.45038
>>20865
>It was, Anno tried to repeat the same idea with the animation project with all the shorts and the MeMeMe video
He didn't make that.
>>44903
>Anno intentionally tried to make the girls unlikable and got disappointed when people waifu them.
No true.
No.45054
>>45003
>requires a thesis worth of unexplained background information to understand
>Episode 23 shows that Gendou has pissed off Seele by going against their plan
>a shot in episode 24 or 25 shows a bunch of Nerve and Seele agents dead form a gun fight, Misato among them
<I DON'T UNDERSTAND I NEED AN ADULT
>movies flat out show everything that happened, removing any need to be able to add one plus one
<FUCKING ANNO JUST GIVE IT TO ME STRAIGHT
No.45057
>>45054
What would you suppose the ratio of people that watch Evangelion for the first time go to the internet to figure out what just happened versus the number that do not is?
No.45061
>>45057
The honest, depressing answer is that probably a ton of people didn't understand what happened despite the show explicitly stating "This all takes place during Instrumentality, but we don't have the time (read: budget) to show you the whole thing" and dropping more than enough hints to figure out what happened. I'm sure it's the same people who love the concept of death of the author because they can never pick up on hints left by a creator in his works.
No.45064
>>45061
100:1? 1000:1? 10,000:1? 100,000:1? 1,000,000:1?
No.45106
>>20624
>Why?
>hates robots
>hates woman
>killed the love of his life with a robot
gee i dont know.
>>20630
>Anno wanted to subvert the trend
by making the exact same shit?
No.45231
>>20624
He's a tremendous bitch. Didn't you watch the anime?
No.45232
>>20624
Because he is a huge faggot.
No.45233
>>20668
>Abusive
Everything Asuka said about Shinji was true
No.45237
>Shinji was born, the mother holding him in her arms
>Gendo gets closer to him, pokes his face and says
>"Shinji, get in the fucking robot."
>The mother responds
>"He just got out of the fucking robot."
No.45238
Not gonna lie, I haven't seen that comic posted in a long time and that "we order them in bulk" line got to me.
heh
No.45240
>>20624
To be honest, Gendo was a terrible father that neglected him and practically forgot his existence after the mom died until he was needed to pilot the EVA. He never cared for him.
No.45255
>>45021
But that is basically every 3D woman ever, so the anime would have hit too close to home for a lot of the audience.
>>45038
>not true
Not him but got source on that?
>>45106
>killed the love of his life with a robot
And that robot was his mom.
No.45259
Why do people somehow both over complicate and under complicate Eva at the same time? Eva isn't nearly in depth as some say but those who say there is no depth are wrong.
No.45267
>>45255
>Not him but got source on that?
i keep reading that he wanted otakus to hate the girls, but i havent seen any source about that
No.45272
>>20624
>hey son
>I want you to pilot this giant robot that killed your mother and fight giant monstrosities that threaten to wipe out all of humanity, no pressure though
>and also you're gonna live with this woman who's at least en years older than you but kinda pedos on you and will treat you like a child
>and a rude bitch
>and a bitch who shows no emotion at all and you first saw barely clinging to life after exiting the very same robot I want you to pilot
<lel why is shinji such a fag
I fucking hate this crap.
No.45280
>>45272
he needed to play more videogames and less faggy cello music.
No.45285
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>>45280
Cellos are a chad instument.
No.45289
>>45272
<lel its totally ok to let some thots walk all over you
No you faggot, Shinji could have allieviated some of the problems he had by not being an infuriatingly spineless bitch. Sure, he has problems i mean BIG fucking problems with his psyche and his dependency on older figures but it really boils down to him being unable to gather the courage or spirit to fight on his own.
But does this mean Shinji is totally unlikeable?
Absolutely not
Because the audience is supposed to be sympathize with Shinji, his indesiciveness and meekness are there to amplifiy his weakness in this setting, making him the 'victim' of something bigger in the world. How can you autists not see this? Does it hit too close to home so you'd rather shift the blame to someone else?
I dont want to waste a theses worth of analytics on some moving japanese pictograms so ill leave it at that
No.45292
>>45289
What the fuck problems did any of that whores have that shinji could fix? Asuka was fucked up cause of her mother and depended on older figures like shinji did, see: her trying to dick that one cool guy whose name I forget. And rei is just an emotionless bitch by design. The fuck could shinji do to help them? He even tried to get rei to smile and ultimately it didn't work. I never said he's not sympathetic or unlikeable either, but I hate when people make his situation out to be some grand fantasy when it's actually really fucking shitty.
>I dont want to waste a theses worth of analytics on some moving japanese pictograms so ill leave it at that
Nigger why do you come here if not to discuss anime?
No.45294
>>45285
>chad instrument
shinji really was a lost cause.
>>45289
>But does this mean Shinji is totally unlikeable?
>Absolutely not
wait, people liked shinji?
No.45296
Shinji is a fucked up guy but everyone around him doesn't help, he was actually starting to balance half way through the show, then shit hits the fan and Misato someone who he genuinely trusted tried to molest him and force him into sexual relation after Rei one of the few who gave a shit about "died". Shinji is still a cunt who keeps runing way from his issues but I'd say half of his issues are due to the dysfunctional cast around him.
No.45322
>>45292
>He even tried to get rei to smile and ultimately it didn't work.
To be fair, if you consider the fact that in the end she dumped Gendo at the instrumentality and gave Shinji alone the choice to bring back humanity, hanging out with Rei was probably one of the only things that didn't spectacularly backfire into his face.
That is if you ignore rebuild and the fact that humanity was better off tang'd. SEELE did absolutely nothing wrong.
No.45333
Reminder the only time Shinji is likeable as a character is in the SRW games where he has people like Koji Kabuto and others like the getter team to get him to man up. Even in one of the Alpha games he even gives space jesus Yamato shit for being a pissy faggot
No.45334
>>45294
>wait, people liked shinji?
Shinji is basically a polite and well-meaning young man.
Yes, he suffers from some retarded notions about the viability of quitting his new job, but everyone else seem to have those same notions. They fucking tell him to go back where he came from if he can't take the heat, regardless that the fate of the world depends on him and two other mentally unbalanced kids. So it seems more like the setting is retarded, or the writer, not so much Shinji.
No.45340
>>45322
Speaking of Rei and rebuild, despite what many on /animu/ think of rebuild , Shinji follows his Father's foot steps where gives up everything and everyone's well being for the sake of a woman.
No.45342
>>45296
you cant rape the willing, anon.
No.45378
>>45296
>Misato someone who he genuinely trusted tried to molest him and force him into sexual relation
IIRC she just offered to comfort him the only way she knew how. The farthest she got was touching his hand, and when he withdrew she apologizes and leaves. As far as molestation and forcing goes, that's too weak to qualify.
No.45452
>>45340
The big difference being Gendo is a dependent faggot who does everything for his waifu because he is too mentally weak to live otherwise.
While rebuild Shinji grew some balls to save his waifu, only to essentially be handed the role of a protagonist in a CBT femdom doujin for all his efforts.