Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime)

[rachelmanija]

I started printing my memoir last night. I continued at 8:00 am today. I'm still printing the thing. With my advance check I will buy a new printer that isn't slow, evil, and insane. You don't want to know

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[rushthatspeaks]

Your printer is a scary, scary thing. Best of luck managing to get another as soon as you can!

Actually, I'm one of those Evangelion-loving people, for reasons that I will go into deeply in my LJ at some point, but which center on: 1) the opening theme, still one of my favorites; 2) Kaworu Nagisa, who turns up and talks sense and behaves wonderfully and is one of the people I admire most in all of anime despite having precisely eight minutes of screentime; and 3) the ending, frankly. At the time I saw it I was coming out of five years thoroughly immersed in academic analysis of Christian and Jewish millennial esotericism and going into four years of immersion in academic analysis of Greco-Roman syncretism and the history of magic and alchemy, and, actually, the ending and the plot made perfect sense to me. Maybe you have to have spent too much time with Abiezer Coppe. At some point, actually, I want to do an annotated summary of the way I thought Eva resolved (which of course may have absolutely nothing to do with Hideaki Anno's intentions-- if there's one thing I agree with everyone else on about Eva, it's that the show is TOO insanely cryptic sometimes), but it would require a horribly extensive bibliography and I wouldn't be able to do much with it so I keep putting it off.

My love for the show may also have something to do with the fact that I assumed from moment one that the angels were really angels, which is a personal quirk of mine, so the switch in mode toward the end didn't surprise me.

Of course, I long ago accepted that much of what I love about Eva may well have a lot more to do with what I brought to it than what's there, but I honestly can't tell anymore, and I do think at least some of it is there. Especially Kaworu. Man, I love that guy.

[rachelmanija]

I like the opening theme too. And Kaworu was cool but only in the show for eight minutes. I probably would have liked it better if he'd showed up half-way through.

The funny thing is, if the show had ended when Kaworu... left... I would have liked that ending better, even though it was less resolved. Shinji's therapy session drove me batty. I'd enjoy hearing your analysis of the end (and middle, and beginning) though.