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ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I believe it’s a recreation of a scene from one of the endings of Evangelion. My hazy guess is the movie “End of Evangelion.” Asuka (on the GPU) lies unconscious in a hospital bed. Shinji (incel protagonist) stands over her. He shuts the door to the hall and breathes heavily for a few seconds, then this shot with white instead of gray.

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  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hello? Yes, I’d like to have unread what I just read. Yes, I’ll hold.

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    • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I sort of regret watching it myself and never rewatched

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      • ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Now I’m curious!!

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    • ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The overall story about why the author did it is interesting, because it is part of his ongoing hatred of how the fans treat the property.

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, I read that and… the author is still a piece of shit.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh dear god…I thought you were joking.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Don’t do this to me

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  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lol wtf

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    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If you’re wondering what narrative purpose this scene serves, you have to consider the whole series. It’s a mirror of a scene in episode one where Shinji also stands on top of a female character with a bodily fluid on his hand, but for a whole other reason: Shinji was told to pilote a giant robot he’d never seen before to fight a giant monster. He refused. The injured girl was brought on a strainer and he was told if he didn’t pilote the robot, she’d have to. The ground shook because of the robot, the girl (named Rei) fell from the strainer and Shinji rushed to see if she was okay. He looked at his hand and saw that he had her blood on it (obvious symbolism), then he accepts to pilote the robot.

      That scene is what asserts Shinji as a protagonist. It’s the first showing him doing something for someone else, and he’s putting his life on the line to do so.

      So mirroring this scene but having him do something cowardly and shameful, opposite of the bravery and kindness he showed in episode 1 makes him exit this role as a protagonist. And I don’t even think it’s necessary to understand it for it to work: For most of the movie after that, Shinji isn’t the protagonist, you follow other characters as they conclude their respective narrative arcs and without the hospital scene, I think many would feel frustrated and wait for Shinji to do something. Instead, we’re more prone to watch the other characters because we don’t really want to see Shinji anymore.

      Another thing is, there characters have all been through a lot and been repeatedly traumatised. Not that it’s an excuse, but the series is also a bit original in the way it rejects the trope that hardship builds character and makes one better, without going in the reverse cliche of it making them a villain either. Trauma makes them mentally ill. Mental illness sometimes cause them to do bad things to other, which they then regret.

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      • MantisTobogganMD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        well, that is some much needed context, otherwise I would’ve had a much different perspective on the narrative and the characters going on as i’ve never seen the show. I actually find it charming, oddly, that the writers worked this way. thanks!

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      • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        oh wow thanks, i never made the connection to ep1. it’s so obvious in hindsight!

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        God I don’t understand why people love this anime.

        I know it’s a deconstruction of the super robot. I know that shinji has a plausibly realistic reaction to his situation, especially as an unwilling Eva pilot. That doesn’t make me wanna watch the psychological unravelling of a child until he becomes completely insufferable and wanks it over his comatose friend. Why does anyone wanna watch that, no matter how powerful?

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      • hitagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Good explanation. I think many people miss out the point of Shinji. Too many people assume that protagonists are always people that you should aspire to be, but Shinji’s messed up self and traumatic past is something that still resonates with many youth today.

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      • Jordan117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Thomas Manga: “No, I just wanted to make him jerk it.”

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      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Thanks for the explanation. Makes more sense that way

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    • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The whole movie, even the whole series was pretty fucked up like this.

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  • Hexarei@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I would like to return one mental image please

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  • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    incel protagonist

    god I hate you twitter zoomers

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean… It’s not wrong. The main character is a fucking creep.

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    • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Whatever. I collected and watched Evangelion on VHS back in the 90s. Maybe “incel” isn’t quite accurate, but Shinji really was quite a pathetic wimp of a protagonist.

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s probably the most accurate description I’ve ever heard of shinji

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t think you’re an incel as a teenager, dude is just horny

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  • Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    wtf I never saw evangelion, what the hell is going on in there? you said that’s the ending?

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    • Fontasia@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Evangelion is one of those anime where the author starts shitting on the fans towards the end because the 15 year old males in the audience see themselves in Shinichi. Those same fans started sending him death threats when the end of the main show points out he is not a good person, and the harem that wants to sleep with him actually don’t want to sleep with him because he’s going to save the world but because they require therapy.

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      • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s been a long, long time, but I don’t recall having the impression that any of the so-called harem actually desired him at all. Rei was apathy toward everything, I don’t recall Asuka showing anything but competitiveness, disdain, and occasional grudging respect, and Misato treated him like a kid brother. And yeah everyone needed therapy!

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    • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      During one of the ending episodes (there were two or three different ones) but not the final scene in any of them

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wait

    That’s What the fuck man what

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  • Moops@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Chicken dinner right here boys. Gotta be it.

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• bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It means he finished

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You don’t want to know.

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• Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The most unnecessary scene in anime

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