Neon Genesis Evangelion is bleak

[donferdinand]

I've been watching Neon Genesis Evangelion this week (never seen it all the way through before), and as a result have been having the scary, vivid dreams all week. Dreams that now seem very clearly related to the show, that are pervaded with the feeling of bleakness one gets from watching it. I rarely have dreams that are so flat-out unpleasant.

Comments

Learn to wield dark magics....

[miraclejones]

Thanks to NGE, the only Japanese I know is "embrace the universe like a blazing star," the line that shows up in the opening credits out of nowhere as the answer to "the angel's cruel thesis."

I have yet to sit down with anybody from Japan in an appropriate social setting, but I plan on busting that out after looking deep into their eyes and searching their soul. I will put my hand on their shoulder and say:

"Yo shinwa ni nare!"

("Embrace the universe like a blazing star" (as far as I know))

Then I will walk away, hoping this is not a ubiquitous Japanese cultural fragment, hoping that this will be a sufficiently strange and terrifying nugget to hear from a New York roundeye who does not appear to ever bathe.

[agabrielrose]

The bleakest time of my life was the afternoon I watched the entire Planet of the Apes series in one sitting on t.v. I don't know if this relates to your feeling because I can't remember anything about the films except the oppressive sense of dread that remained with me for weeks.

[static]

I once watched a Batman series marathon for three solid days. Each day I fell asleep and dreamt of Caesar Romero's Joker cackling wildly at everything I thought or did.

I am not a proud man.

[donferdinand]

Caesar Romero's joker is so festive! Those don't sound like bad dreams at all.

[kid_sportswear]

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