Finished Evangelion on Netflix, overall I think the relationship between Shinji and Kaworu is definitely more subtle than the original dub/sub, however that doesn’t mean there isn’t clear attraction or homosexual feelings, so yeah, read into that what you like I guess.

Other that that it was mostly just weird to see something I know pretty well, but sounding totally different (it reminded me of the twin snakes MGS remake if that makes sense). I got over it but it did sort of stop me enjoying it as much again 12 years later. It was also nice to watch knowing what I know now about the 2 endings, along with the comments Anno has made since. His disdain for the vocal fandom of the show is pretty clear isn’t it? Quite funny to see them just destroy everything based on the massive backlash of the original ‘happy’ ending.

Anyway, next is to find my blu rays for rebuild 1.11 - 3.33. 2.22 is probably my favourite thing in all of Evangelion, so looking forward to getting to it.

Edit: also the end to EoE is much more upsetting a second time round. This time Shinji just being unable to get past his own self loathing and taking it out on everyone, unwilling to admit that he needs to solve his own problems and just failing to reach out. I get it’s meant to reflect on the people who wrote death letters and such to the studio but man, seeing Shinji utterly fail and lose his shit at others is hard after just seeing him rectify things in the series.

Oh my god that dream. I wouldn’t know how to sleep the next evening.

In my head it’s like a simpson’s artist drawing or something.

This looks pretty good, same people as Gurren Lagann and Kill La Kill.

From Wikipedia:

"The film is directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, both previously working together on Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill, with Nakashima and Trigger credited for the original work."

Seems that Imaishi left Gainex and founded Trigger. Nakashima might be freelance? I didn't see a company on his page.

I've never heard of Abenobashi, do you know of its on cruncyroll? Might be time for a subscription, with watching JoJo, HxH and now Neon Genesis Evangelion recently I find life action TV a bit more boring (still good stuff, but I forgot how much I love incredibly well timed vfx and battles etc)

Nice one dude.

I'm glad you're enjoying it Nina. You've just managed to reach the episodes I really like. Everything after the weird Dirac Sea/3D shadow angel up until Shinji fights Zeruel is really good. The episodes with Uni-03 are some of my favourite from the show.

Despite it having lots of flaws, I still love it. It's very good at getting around the lack of budget with smart use of static scenes and music and I don't think they really detract from it as it's quite a slow paced show in a lot of places anyway. There's the infamous elevator scene but I always felt people were hypercritical of that anyway, it's a show that loves to make you wait. I will be interested to see what you make of the ending, and especially what you make of End of Evangelion.

I am currently re-watching Diamond is Unbreakable because Ev wanted to see it after we finished JoJo part 3, and DIU is easily the best part i've watched. Currently reading Part 6, Stone Ocean, and it's definitely upping the weirdness and gore from previous parts. I dunno how they'll actually translate it to anime cos it's quite a step up from even the over the top nature of Part 5.

Furthermore to the violence stuff, how are they gonna animate the Bohemian Rhapsody stuff? Some off-brand Mickey Mouse style mascot?

The budget was pretty big but mishandled fairly badly from what I know. Production was on an episode to episode basis with Anno changing elements at a whim, which is why the gear shift is so no pronounced in the latter half. I think towards the end they ran out of cash though, and it shows

Yeah it's a very complex history and I doubt anyone has the full story. It definitely has a lot of last minute stuff going on, which is probably how they managed to do a lot of things as when you've funded a project with someone like Anno, from a studio like Gainax, based around updating and playing with old TV show formulas you can't really pull it when at the last minute they do a 180 and make it all about people's introspection. Mishandling of the budget is the best way of describing it i'd say.

Baki is satisfying. More impossible muscle groups the better.

I found Baki to be incredibly tedious. Surprised there's some love for it tbh.

Still going through the first season of JoJo and I can't believe

Frosty wrote:

I found Baki to be incredibly tedious. Surprised there's some love for it tbh.

Still going through the first season of JoJo and I can't believe

Spoiler:

they killed Ceaser. I'm not used to this happening in my anime.

I loved the fighting in baki reminds me of streetfighter

HxH was the good shit.

I am glad you enjoyed it Frosty. I tried my best to get as much into it but I think around 1000 words got cut in the end. Some of that was waffle but I am sure I could have focussed more on expectations in the end. I think, weirdly the title heading misleads cos they told me to focus on the binary stuff and then titled it about re-inventing shounen? eh. Writitng is weird.

@nina 

I am glad you liked it. I like both EoE and the final two parts. They're sort of intersting when viewed side by side, and EoE definitely has some interpretations of the things that are going on. It is very much tied to Anno's experience of depression, and in truth the terrible way he ended up leaning on people to help him.

Frosty wrote:

HxH was the good shit.

It's good. I think it tails off after the first 50 episodes.
Hisoka's is a decent character.

He's essentially the image I keep in my head when I read a Brooks post.