[Evangelion] I'm finally getting around to watching the Rebuild and the difference in animation is really getting the tech across much better than I understood NGE

With the city moving underground and stuff

it could be because I watched it in like... middle school that I didn't get a good idea of it

Iiiii do not remember Shinji going and sleeping on the street after saving Toji and Kensuke

granted it's been 20 years, but I know Rebuild is different. I just thought it was different after the first one.

Mostly this is just making me remember the really fucking good Bohemian Rhapsody amv from the late 90s lol

The Origonal Eva Bohemian Rhapsody Video

I don't remember Shinji being so fixated on not getting recognized in general for piloting the Eva...

Like, from his dad I remember, but from everyone? It makes sense to fixate on how he might die but... eh

I mean I guess that makes sense too since he's what, 14?

And a nihilist at that.

I REMEMBER THAT AMV

ceaseless 👁️ : I remember a lot of it very clearly. it's very well edited!

I used to collect a lot of Eva AMVs (it was/is my favorite anime) and yes! Yes, it is

OKAY WAIT I know Kowaru wasn't introduced this early originally..

I hope this means he makes more sense narratively cause I just remember being confused lmao

also I miss Fly Me To The Moon :c

I'll watch another one later, Ly and I are gonna play some Dragon Age

Coming back to this now that I've finished Rebuild and I sorta... Idk it made me cry because it gave so much better closure than the series?

Or more direct closure. But seeing Shinji be grown up and actually act grown up was really nice

Also that Utada song at the end is a bop

I'm gonna slowly watch the series too I think, to compare, but maybe starting from episode 8 or so since the first Rebuild is basically the same as the episodes.

But there's something gained in giving us a better view of Gendo Ikari and all he went through regarding Yui.

I think there's a lot that could be inferred from NGE but having him actually tell Shinji is I think very important.

It might also be a difference in time when things were written too, cause NGE was like. 1997? I think? So there is still a sense of 'get over it' directed at Shinji by the narrative as a whole instead of the characters directly

but the Rebuild started 20-25 yearsish later so there's definitely a different sensibility regarding how the narrative seems to step back and give the characters all equal time shown being supportive, condemning, or the gamut in between of how Shinji deals (or doesn't deal) with his very realistically depicted trauma reactions

Both to being abandoned and to piloting the Eva

It's also a different plot, but I do think that's partially at least born from being rewritten later too

And the implication (flat out admission?) of this happening over and over and this time it's finally done. At least that's part of what I took away from the ending

ceaseless 👁️ maybe you have more insight since it's your favorite, idk, but I'd love to hear your opinion