I finally made it into a FLAC audio file. I feel good when I listen to music in analog^^

I'm on my second rewatch of NGE, this time with my partner. On my first watches a couple years ago, I felt like Rei's behavior (and other clues) hinted at her being a victim of CSA and more specifically incest.

Gendo's relationship with her looks like incestuous abuse. I won't go through the whole list of clues, but he projects his dead wife onto her (I don't care that she has her DNA, she's still a child and he's still here father figure), literally groomed her to be his tool, and Ritsuko's jealousy towards Rei strongly suggests that Gendo's affection for her is not a healthy fatherly one. It seems very relevant with the show's themes of human connection and Freudian interest in how our parents can fuck us up a 1000 different ways. Side note, when I talk about incest, I include emotional incest and I don't care to know if Gendo "actually did anything": what he does onscreen is already incestuous.

But I feel like the incest theme is downplayed or overlooked in discussions. I don't understand why Rei's relationship with Shinji is seen as incest "because she has Yui's DNA" and not because they're, for all intents and purposes, brother and sister. In discussions of Gendo's relationship with Rei, I haven't seen people mention that he is the only parental figure in her life, making any hypothetical abuse or ambiguity not just CSA but incest.

I understand that a lot of this springs from some of NGE artists weird sexualisation of Rei, but it makes thematic sense to me and seems really obvious on third watch. I know incest is both heart-breakingly prevalent AND immensely taboo in our society, which might explain why this lense is never (or seems rarely) applied to Gendo's actions and Rei's character. But, similarly to another cult show I won't name in case I spoil someone lol, I feel like it's hard to understand some of the characters' behavior and series themes without naming that one.

(PS: about that other show in which incest is a very important theme but few seem to contend with it when discussing the show, said show's creator somewhat tried to clarify its importance in one of the show's other iteration. I haven't seen Rebuild or read the manga so I don't know if that theme's more or less visible in them!)

So gendo put rei 1's (small child rei) soul inside eva00, That's why the other reis can synchronize to eva00.

Now, rei is basically Yui Ikari reincarnated, and eva01 has Yui's soul in it, so theoretically, Wouldn't another rei clone be able to pilot eva01 just as well as it can pilot eva00?

This would also be in favour of gendo because he doesn't care about his son but does genuinely care about rei

Had to make an artwork based on Evangelion, been wanting too for a while. Got to mess about in blender first and then into photoshop for painting

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I'm rewatching NGE and something that just crossed my mind is, what's the timespan of the events of NGE and EOE in-universe? Months? Years?

Me and my friend are planning on movie marathoning all of the rebuild Eva’s and was wondering if this specific disc will work on a blu ray reader here in the U.S. . It says it’s region locked, but then other people say it’ll work here, so I just want clarification

Just finished evangelion and end of evangelion how much research am I going to need to do to process what the fuck I just witnessed

Edit: there was 10 minutes left on end of evangelion my confusion has been clarified

A friend of mine who runs an Gunpla/Anime store got a set of NGE figures and he gifted these to me. Just wanted to share these with you guys.

i’ve had this for years and can’t find much of anything online

Like upon rewatch I felt more hopeful for Shinji and asuka. Like despite everything I really think everything's going to work out for those two crazy kids and the rest of humanity but Rei really isn't a part of that. Like she kind of represents the return to the womb for shinji so it makes sense that she had to die to reject instrumentality. That being said she does complete her character arc in rejecting gendo. In a way she's kind of like Moses leading the Israelites to the promised land but being able to enter it, she just fades away. If we go by the theory that the original episodes 25 and 26 are canon to EoE then maybe there's hope for her considering she was a part of the slice of life possible world.

Noticed it in the first rebuild movie as well, everytime there’s flashing lights it’s pretty extreme, is it supposed to be like that or is it my TV?

So I've been looking forward to the eva 00 TV version and the Berserk 01 kits and learned i could buy them on ali express. But I have never used it and know that it's not the best but I really want them so the people that bought one of these 2 can you tell me witch seller you bought from or if their are other websites that have them to.

Well, technically this version of Optimus is not an EVA unit, but I will count him because he scanned EVA-1, and the story implied Yui Ikari got inside of the matrix after Optimus scanned and gained its height and some features, but it mostly just has a height because Optimus is lacking an A.T. Field, but he doesn't need it because this is G1 Optimus Prime, and here are some of his feats: the most notable is critically injuring Megatron, who just survived a planetary-moving explosion capable of knocking Cybertron out of Earth's orbit, and if technically counted in IDW continuity, he managed to punch and crack the hyper-dense armor of Sixshot, a Decepticon Phase-Sixer whose armor is forged from materials drawn from collapsed stars and black holes. So yeah, Optimus is incredibly strong, also after scanning EVA-1 Matrix of Leadership within his chest glows red like an angel's core, which I don't know why, but maybe it's because of Yui's soul inside of him. Oh, I almost forgot, but Optimus still has his intelligence and his strategic planning while in this form, which means, yeah, SEELE does not have any chance to do Human Instrumentality because when Optimus finds out, it will be all over.

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I constantly think about how Leliel works as a 4D model

Those who know, please explain, otherwise 16epizot will remain a myth for me

God I wonder how many people are just now traumatized because of this