By popular demand. And because seriously, what the FUCK.
On what grounds? You claim impossibility of them getting better without explaining why and with a patent absence of any strong evidence of such in canon material.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time was initially listed
with a running time of 154 minutes and a G rating from Japan's Film Classification and Rating Organization.
Online Hate Took Evangelion Creator Hideaki Anno To A Dark Place
Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion, is an anime icon. He says he’s done with the series. With its fame and popularity came haters, who took him to a very dark place.
At one point, twisted online comments made Anno contemplate dying by suicide.
In a recently aired NHK program, Anno opened up to film crews for a frank and honest interview. The name of the program is Professional: Shigoto no Ryuugi (Professional: The Way of Work), and the show followed him over a four-year period as he finished the latest Evangelion. “Professional” is a word that Anno told NHK he didn’t like and wished had been changed in a humorous exchange during the closing credits.
The program showed the ups and downs of the creative process, and how Anno would go back to fix the script late in production. This would then, of course, impact the release schedule.
During the show, he was very clear about how he felt about Evangelion. “With this [movie], I’m done with Eva,” he said. Of course, that doesn’t mean Evangelion will necessarily stop, but as of now it appears Anno won’t be doing it and is moving on. He seems more than ready, too. When NHK asked if he had any emotional attachment to Eva, he immediately replied, “None.”
In another segment, Anno opened up about how he felt after reading an online thread in which commenters discussed how to kill him. The incident occurred when Evangelion was airing on TV over twenty years ago.
Anno has battled depression for years—a battle that he has been open about. It’s rare to see this kind of frankness in Japan about mental health. The topic, as Japan Today points out, has long been taboo. That is beginning to change.
“For me, I’m trying to work hard for society and people who love anime, but there was this thread on how to kill Hideaki Anno,” the anime creator told NHK. “They kept writing the absolute best ways to kill me, such as, I could be killed this way or that. When I saw this, I stopped caring about everything—like, making anime. I’d had enough. One time, I thought about jumping in front of a car. Another time, I thought about jumping from the company’s roof.” NHK asked what stopped him, and Anno replied, “Because that seemed painful. Dying is fine, really, but I didn’t like the idea of experiencing pain before death.”
It’s so easy to make flippant comments online. Those words, however, have meaning. And that meaning can impact people in a deep and profound way.
And the series has been a reflection of Annos mind since his post Nadia depression, so I don't know what people were expecting for Rebuilds ending.
Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Mar 27th 2021 at 11:05:47 AM
Watch SymphogearThey wanted to see the end of Shinji's story, not Anno's, but Anno apparently went full self-insert with Shinji this time, to the point where the movie literally portrays a world without Eva as drone footage of Anno's real-life hometown.
It's not the tone of the ending people are having trouble with, it's that it feels jarring and out-of-place, both for Eva and for Shinji. And that's not even counting the shipper outrage over Shinji having moved on with his life.
Not really seeing how its not the end of Shinji's story. Its literally just an homage to ending of the first Xenoblade, but somewhat more meta. Nothing wrong with that.
Watch SymphogearA lot of reviews do point out it ends up being more Anno than Shinji as a character at the end. The fact that the character he gets with is someone who isn’t developed like the rest gets pointed out as a negative even in glowing reviews with that + the action being lifeless.
Whereas before Shinji and everyone in Eva represented him and his issues + some characters taking inspiration from people he knows. By the end it’s just Anno wearing a Shinji suit being with his wife.
This is even reflected in how divorce Mari is from Eva, even when she’s implemented into the story past with certain characters. She’s not written to fit in with anything else in Eva due to who she’s based on(+Kaworu), despite Anno being completely willing to do so with everyone else he knows.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Mar 27th 2021 at 10:09:45 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but Amanda Winn-Lee has posted her thoughts on the Netflix release on her Twitter account here
.
Suffice to say, online fandom and parasocial relationships can be toxic...I might had contributed to that myself when I was a younger man.
"Fan, a Mega Man character."Okay what she reveals is pretty fucking insane.
I'm aware. What I've been able to piece together based on Youtube videos (I know there's a wiki entry but I haven't checked it out since October) is that it technically takes place in the Rebuild continuity, but each season is a separate story unconnected to the previous ones. Hence why Kotone is a newcomer in both season 2 which takes place in the school setting timeframe, as well as in season 3 which is Q-era.
I don't know if she appears in further seasons because the guy who uploaded the cutscenes I saw claimed that seasons 4 and 5 didn't get CGI cutscenes like the prior ones.

Still true, though.