/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

I've never watched the remake movies because from what I heard they're absolute shit and not worth watching but I do consider the main tv series and the follow-up film to be a masterpiece or at least one of the best things anime has seen. Just the amount of detail that went into art and animation alone makes it better than more than half of all anime that has aired in the last 10 years.

The only thing I didn't like about it was the lack of explanation regarding the lore. Yes, I understand that you could have read that information in booklets or some of the videogames that were made and due to the internet it's now easily available by just reading everything on the fanmade wiki but I still think it would have been a more interesting watch had they made certain things more clear in the show itself.

Also, I'm sure I don't even have to mention this but at this point Anno is just milking out the series to earn as much money from it as he still possibly can.

>>4058

>whos your favorite character

>asuka because shes cute

reifags btfo

>>4093

I actually read the mango before i watched the show

i dropped it when toji died

>>4107

i always prefered asuka

>>4106

>tfw no equally autistic senpai to be the reason for not killing yourself

Back to the topic of his childhood, I read on his official website that he didn't really study during HS and wasn't even planning on getting in college/university and only did so on request of his parents. That must have been hard for someone living in a country where it's expected of students to focus on school 24/7 to prepare them for a life of wageslavery, where the concept of "laziness" or lack of motivation barely exists because it would make their entire hivemind system come crashing down. That probably played a large role in his parents' attitude towards him.

>>4107

What's the appeal of Rei anyway? She barely speaks in the show and doesn't have any personality to speak of.

>>4111

https://web.archive.org/web/20160614020904/http://khara.co.jp/hideakianno/personal-biography.html

The original page for this seems to be taken down for some reason.

>In 1976, he was accepted into Yamaguchi Prefectural Ube High School. While the school was famous for being an elite stepping stone toward passing the entrance exams of prestigious universities, during entrance ceremonies Anno decided not to pursue further studies, feeling they were a waste of time. In the art club, he devoted his efforts toward manga, anime, and tokusatsu, and as a member of the astronomy group of the school earth science club, he would scrutinize the stars in the heavens. But at the same time, he would spendan inordinate amount of time playing mahjong with his friends.

>The fluctuations in his test scores, ranging between 8 and 98 percent, reflected the degreeto which he was interested in the subject being taught, which resulted in the school faculty flagging him as a problem child. One particular subjectthat Anno excelled in flunking at was English, a state of affairs that began when he rebelled against his English teacher during his first year in junior high school. But thanks to a makeup exam where the answers were given out prior to the test, he was able to graduate with no questions asked. As it so happens, Japan's university entrance exam system was completely revamped the year Anno was set to apply, and the then-new National Standardized Primary Examinations for College Entrance were established. English was a required subject in the exams, and as a result, Anno's enthusiasm for the university entrance exams evaporated and his interest in studying waned even further.

>He hardly studied at all in the one-year period after he flunked his college entrance exam, a time in which he was supposed to be studying to retake it the following year. Instead, he worked part-time making morning and evening newspaper deliveries, played mahjong, religiously recorded episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam as it was first broadcast, and engaged in other manga- and anime-related activities day in and day out. Eventually, his parents and his former high school– which was desperate to not have its alumni acceptance percentage lowered – begged him to pursue a university education, and thus Anno finally resolved to study and prepare for the entrance exams. But then, leafing through the numerous university brochures he had gathered aimlessly, he noticed one college, the private Osaka University of Arts, was willing to approve applications based not on scholastic test scores, but rather on successful display of required skills. Furthermore, upon learning that acceptance into the Department of Visual Concept Planning was (at the time) based on providing original continuity sheets (a detailed form of storyboards), Anno's mind was put at ease, so he went back to goofing around.

>>4114

He sounds like a cool guy tbh

>>4058

Speaking of the movies, I suppose it's both a dumb question and a moot point at that when one can generally just download whatever shows they want dubbed or subbed if they're savvy enough, but are the movies being pushed (morseo by the rights holders than fans) as the "modern" or "proper" way to watch Evangelion compared to the original TV series or something? Just wondering since from what I've seen (looking for games at multimedia places, sometimes I drift into the anime shelves), the prior DVD prints are pretty fucking expensive (the original run is at $70+ for a set or $13 for individual volumes, and last I saw a Platinum set around it got bought at $130) yet I don't recall hearing about it having been picked up for a compilation reprint/bluray release here (Japan apparently did get a bluray set though). Thus, the Rebuild movies are effectively the only reasonably affordable way to own the series in some format on disc (officially anyhow; seen some cheap apparent bootleg same-case DVD compilations around). I mean, I know Funi seems to have rights to dub/print the Rebuild movies here, but what exactly is preventing the original run from getting another print at present too? I know not every series gets the rights bought up due to low interest when the prior distributor goes belly up (or even do anything other than sit on the rights for years as the case sometimes is), or internal issues can cause an active one to lose their claim at the license (like Aniplex refusing to allow Funi renew the western rights for either Fullmetal Alchemist anime), but I'd think that a series like Evangelion would see continued distribution over the years as a whole, given its reputation even here in the west. Because clearly there's demand that could be sated when preowned prices of the older prints are that high, and yet that hasn't happened for over a decade now.

As mentioned above I suppose it doesn't matter much with the nature of the internet, but it's something that's been in the back of my mind for a while. Does no one own the rights to the original series here anymore in the west? Do they, but opt to do nothing with it, and if so, why?

>>4948

>*slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

What? What the fuck does that even mean?

>None of that shit means or contributes anything

I have no idea how you can contribute to an anime you didn't make but I'm pretty sure those people talking about psychology-influenced stuff in the show are in fact looking for meaning.