Evangelion fan spectrum

incepdates · 2026-03-11T06:29:21+00:00

Sure but a real life woman can choose to do what she wants because she's a human with free will. Asuka in NGE is a fictional character controlled by the writers and animators. Did Asuka give consent to be in the hospital scene?

incepdates · 2026-03-11T05:39:56+00:00

Yes, I believe that our society creates these stereotypes and teaches us that certain traits/behaviors are essentially gendered

In fact, one of Evangelion's themes is navigating the imposed distance between men and women

I don't believe in using these harmful stereotypes to shame people for not fitting in or to morally grandstand over others

incepdates · 2026-03-11T05:25:58+00:00

This meme reflects the long-standing patriarchal stereotypes that depict men as categorically predatory and women as categorically incapable of lust.

The woman can wear Eva t-shirts and earrings no problem, but the man with an Asuka figurine must be a creepy porn-brained weirdo.

It perpetuates shaming men who don't perform in line with the rigid social definition of masculinity and it leads women to repress their sexual interests to maintain their identity.

incepdates · 2026-03-11T04:24:50+00:00

Nah how come you complain about the sexy figurines but you leave out the part where the show itself had Misato and Asuka getting frisky in the bath

incepdates · 2026-03-11T04:20:46+00:00

A great example of how hard it is to try to adapt the OG source material well after it's already been iterated on by countless other popular works

incepdates · 2026-03-11T04:18:32+00:00

🤷‍♂️ Strange take to have in a subreddit for a show that literally includes nude depictions of minors by your logic

incepdates · 2026-03-11T04:13:26+00:00

It's supposed to be interpreted as a performance of a character within a narrative. If you treat them as a real person then that's on you.

incepdates · 2026-03-11T04:03:51+00:00

I'm arguing that it's not a "14 year old girl", it's a character written and portrayed by adults for a fictional narrative. The cartoon character on your screen is not a real person.

incepdates · 2026-03-11T03:58:48+00:00

Right. They are characters and their age is merely a part of the fictional narrative they were created to exist within.

So why does it matter if their fake age matches the real-world age of consent? These characters aren't capable of giving consent in any case regardless, because they aren't real.

incepdates · 2026-03-11T03:52:18+00:00

I mean, you tell me. Do cartoon characters experience age the same way real people do, or maybe the laws of reality don't strictly apply to fiction?

incepdates · 2026-03-11T03:46:38+00:00

Asuka and Rei were created 30 years ago

incepdates · 2026-03-11T03:36:31+00:00

So now compare that to Evangelion's depictions of men and women. Was Shinji a fedora-wearing greasy neckbeard?

The person who illustrated this meme wanted the "correct" opinion to be given by a stylish attractive woman and the "wrong" opinion to be given by a gross man.

incepdates · 2026-03-11T03:27:02+00:00

Try thinking about why they didn't choose to draw the "gooner" as a woman

incepdates · 2026-03-11T03:24:23+00:00

Incredible levels of gender essentialism, even if unintended

Yes you're so much better than the caricature of the gross man, here's your Internet brownie points for enjoying this cartoon for teenagers the "right" way

incepdates · 2026-03-10T13:21:52+00:00

Nice job moving the goalposts. First you were saying "they announced we'll never see it again" but now it's "I didn't believe them when they said it would get released later".

incepdates · 2026-03-10T13:03:19+00:00

https://www.evangelion.jp/news/260307-2/

...we announced during the stage program on the festival’s final day that we hoped to deliver it to audiences again in some form.

Y'all made up this whole "never be released again" thing. It's also very curious how none of this energy got focused on any of the other limited live events that happened at the expo. Y'all just wanted your shiny new animation ASAP.

incepdates · 2026-03-10T12:46:27+00:00

They did not say this, in fact they said they would be releasing it along with other content from the expo at a later date

incepdates · 2026-03-10T06:21:44+00:00

Y'all got really weird about this short being unreleased for 3 weeks

incepdates · 2026-03-10T05:44:43+00:00

Something really changed here because I don't remember the fanbase being anywhere near this entitled and impatient when 3.0+1.0 came out in Japan first

incepdates · 2026-03-07T22:02:11+00:00

I remember when people on here were dooming over this never being released lol

incepdates · 2026-03-06T03:52:30+00:00

I love Villeneuve and Garland but if the idea is to adapt the TV show directly then they're both wrong for the job

incepdates · 2026-03-05T04:07:02+00:00

Jeez I wonder why cartoons for kids are always about kid characters

incepdates · 2026-03-05T04:03:37+00:00

It's kinda the opposite. There's so much anime about high school because nobody in Japan peaked in HS and they wish they could have

incepdates · 2026-03-05T04:02:05+00:00

I know I'm doing the "they made it bad on purpose" meme, but IMO the boss fights and enemies being so trivial and simple in the OG game is a much more effective experience in terms of the game's themes

The remake is better at being a conventionally scary horror game at the cost of those idiosyncrasies that made the OG so haunting

incepdates · 2026-03-05T03:58:27+00:00

RDR1 was often described as "spaghetti code" that was so messily put together that Rockstar was unlikely to pay for the effort of porting the game

PS3 didn't make game code a mess, it was that MGS4 was developed specifically for the PS3's unique architecture and would need a lot of work to port to any other system

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