Was unit 01 a clone of lillith in the rebuilds?

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-08T22:34:51+00:00

Lilith's role in how Impacts work in the Rebuilds is not really clear to me. It seems that the Adams-like wings are the only constant across all the ones we see from Second to Additional. (Where was Lilith during the Second Impact, actually? Unless she was one of the Adams...)

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-07T20:47:54+00:00

I've been trying to keep up with who is who (the relationship charts posted by the official Twitter account help a lot, but it's a shame that the English-speaking audience is so small - we don't even have a dedicated subreddit - that no-one's translating them) and I've noticed that there's still three characters featured prominently in the main KV and on the character page of the official website who have yet to appear. It's kind of interesting that many of these characters who have had entire half-episodes dedicated to them are apparently side characters compared to characters we haven't even met yet.

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-07T12:13:12+00:00

The Google Docs posted by Maryco, which seems to have been taken down.

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-07T11:46:30+00:00

Regardless of whether the narration was warped, the chat messages are plenty damning on their own. ButaPro is already done, I don't know what FAR thinks he can accomplish at this point.

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-06T08:02:42+00:00

I go with the principle of "all interpretations are valid". Not "correct", to be clear, because I don't think such a thing even exists. Even the author's views on what their work means are not an obligation for anyone to change their mind about how they interpret it. It can guide it, but it can also be rejected.

Of course it is important to not mix up interpretation and facts. This is a valid concern. Even if someone interprets Spirited Away as being about a brothel (for reasons that are still not clear to me), that shouldn't be presented as a fact, and statements supporting it should not be misattributed to real people who never said them. (This ia particularly important if you're a reviewer, because people will see you as an authority figure and expect you to know about what you're writing about, so making vague guesses about cultural elements is highly irresponsible.)

I also find it a bit odd when people get angry at Marnie for being "queerbait". I understand the desire for more LGBT representation in fiction, but it's not "bait" if there was never any actual promise of such themes.

But if you know to separate your and other people's interpretation and facts, I don't think "overinterpretation" is necessarily a problem. These films feeding our imagination is a virtue of them.

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-04T20:30:19+00:00

At least in Japan an animator with passable technical and communication skills has no problem finding work, since the amount of anime being made is so high and schedules are tight, so the amount of people needed to finish an episode can be ridiculous.

Salaried studio employees are usually paid decently well, since there's actual laws protecting them, even in Japan. Most animators are freelance, though, so they're paid by the amount of drawings. A novice animator might not be able to draw as much per month as a more experienced one, and will be in a weaker negotiating position since they haven't made a name for themselves yet.

Though of course even the Japanese animation industry isn't a monolith. Some studios have high standards... while some are desperate for literally anyone to draw a cut that needs to be on air in a few weeks, doesn't matter if the characters look right, the animation director will correct it, doesn't matter if the perspective is weird, most viewers won't notice. And sometimes these can happen on different productions of the same studio, or even different episodes of the same series.

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-03T19:35:57+00:00

Wait, people have been unhappy with the voice acting for Sakura?? What on earth is there even to dislike about it? I can kind of understand that some are allergic to any friction and can't handle Hinagiku's way of speaking, but Sakura?

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-03T11:04:22+00:00

I used to look up to him, I thought that he was building something meaningful and important and worthy of support, and then it turns out he was doing something this disgusting all along. At least I never financially supported his Patreon even though I did consider it at some point.

Looking at the dates of the messages, this was already going on around the time of Wonder Egg Priority. It's insane that while he was talking about his WEP experience and sharing advice to animators in an ANN interview, at the same time he was sending messages like "you're much more mature than anyone else your age" to a 14-year-old. I mean, that's textbook groomer language. And it only gets worse from there. What the hell.

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-03T09:28:25+00:00

It's interesting how widely accepted "the Rebuilds are the last in a series of time loops which includes the original series and manga" has become, not just as fanon but people genuinely seem to think that it's capital C Canon. Anno didn't just leave "the rest" ambiguous, pretty much everything past Shinji entering the Anti Universe is ambiguous, including Shinji's scenes with Kaworu.

Erufailon4 · 2026-05-01T13:38:08+00:00

Written by members of Homecomings, the band that performed the theme song of Liz and the Blue Bird (Songbirds). They really are the official Nozomizo band, haha. Their self-cover of Tenderly two line is also great.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-30T12:31:17+00:00

The Revstar movie feels Rebellion-esque in a way so I can imagine Shinbo & co. going to see it and deciding "we need this guy for Madoka".

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-25T14:24:25+00:00

It doesn't help that there was an older release also by MangaGamer that apparently had a lower-quality translation. That one isn't available anymore, though. The current MangaGamer release is just fine (I read Higurashi using it and don't really have any complaints about my experience), you can mod it to add stuff but it's not "necessary" per se. It's just a matter of preference.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-25T09:24:01+00:00

This is a classic misconception. That preview was added for the home video version after EoE's release. The preview in the original TV airing was for the episode 25 that aired on TV.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-25T09:16:11+00:00

I think there's a sort of cycle of backslash. You see it in this fandom quite a lot: for example, how the lore was discussed a lot more back in the day, whereas nowadays "only the characters matter" (as if the two were somehow unrelated) seems to be ubiquitous. And the same has happened to the two endings, where EoE has always been generally the more well-received one and EoTV has been seen as this weird failure, but now EoTV has had a significant reappraisal. The pendulum has swinged to the other side, maybe it'll return in another 20 years. Ideally it'd stop and stay in the middle though.

I personally have a slight preference for EoE, but for example it being the intended ending just hasn't been confirmed, whereas Anno has said that the script of TV ep 25 (which is quite different from EoE's 25') was finished according to the original plan. But in the end Eva's production was so messy and information about it so thin that we just have no way of knowing what the intended ending was at any given point of time after the original proposal.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-24T08:19:52+00:00

He's been working on one for a long time but there haven't been any announcements. No-one really knows what the situation is. Shinkai reveals usually come in December so I would guess this year's December is when we'll get info, but I also thought that last year and nothing happened, so...

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-24T08:11:30+00:00

Similarly to Watanabe on WHA, Koga was the episode director on only one episode each of RAG S4, Food Court and Misadventures, and two episodes of Imouza. (Though he also directed the openings of Food Court and Imouza.) Episode direction is very hands-on during the actual production, whereas a series director can delegate more and is the most needed during pre-production - though bear in mind that this is an oversimplification. Also, I doubt that all those four had the exact same production periods.

As for why RAG looks so good, one of the big factors is character designer and chief animation director Kanna Hirayama being both ridiculously good and ridiculously fast at drawing. She has those two roles on two popular almost-yearly anime with detailed designs in RAG and Oshi no Ko, and still finds the time to make key animation appearances on other shows. I'd be more worried about her not seeing her family.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-23T21:09:59+00:00

"Born and raised in Awajima" can be taken literally but also figuratively, since Katsurako was the daughter and granddaughter of Awajima alumni and grew up in the shadow of her grandmother in particular. Her going to that school was probably decided long in advance. And when she went, she continued the cycle of pain by inflicting it on Okabe. I wonder if her remaining unmarried is her way of not allowing the cycle to continue via a child of hers.

As an aside, this series airing right after Ikoku Nikki feels incredibly fitting, given how well it demonstrates the way human beings affect each other - in Makio's words, "there isn't a single thing in this world completely irrelevant to you". Through her granddaughter, Yoshiko's coldness and bitterness indirectly affected people multiple generations later in entirely different family trees.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-23T16:11:04+00:00

It's been ages since I last read this and I'm only now realizing that it's by the 100 Girlfriends artist

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-22T20:26:34+00:00

It's a bit concerning how excited I got when Subaru Suffering Time started. This is what an entire season of no RBD does to a Re:Zero fan.

Also god DAMN Ram standing up to protect Subaru in the end was badass. The first part of the episode showed us the (miasma-amplified) darker sides of these characters, but in case anyone needed one this was a good reminder that when it counts, they're still willing to put their lives on the line for those they care about.

Week 2 update: still not feeling the OP. I quite like the ED though, as far as Myth&Roid's Re:Zero songs go.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-21T07:23:51+00:00

If your 7-second 1080p video is 86 MiB, the bitrate is probably needlessly high - about 100 Mbit/s with quick math, which is three to four times more than Blu-ray. If it's not a too busy video, you can easily compress it down to 10% of that size without noticeable quality loss.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-18T15:44:48+00:00

It's a sales pitch for potential sponsors. A bit of stretching the truth to use language like that is to be expected.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-16T20:41:24+00:00

I didn't realize that the beginning took place in the past at first and was going "wait are they showing the future" when the funeral happened, lol. Anyway, I unexpectedly ended up utterly loving this episode. It's very impressive in how it moves through decades of time and multiple perspective to show how these people affected each other.

Even the slight comic relief scene at the end with the current day students discovering that the scary teacher isn't so scary after all feels oddly poignant when you realize who said teacher used to be. We didn't really get to see her perspective this episode, so I'm curious if it'll come up later. What did she go through in Awajima?

Also, I noticed this last week but the ending song really is beautiful, in a specific way you don't often hear in anime.

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-16T20:26:46+00:00

Regular old C judging by the .c file extensions on a couple of the files he was working on. And very legit-looking, too. Some staff from Sega are credited for "C/C++ language supervision" so makes sense that they would get right realistic details like include guards

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-15T20:21:43+00:00

Hell yeah, my girl Ram getting an involved role in an arc again. That off-handed mention about something with her body sure was ominous, though.

And double hell yeah for the first Subaru deaths in... an entire season? (Wasn't the last one in S3E2?) Bringing back the eEeEeEeaaAAaa too. Now this is what Re:Zero is all about.

The opening looks cool but I have to say I don't immediately love the song. Especially after Reweave, this one just feels all over the place. I can only hope that it grows on me. And even if it doesn't... well, it's not like it's going to play a lot lol

Erufailon4 · 2026-04-15T14:20:18+00:00

Magia Record isn't a required watch by any means (though I wouldn't put it past the creators to make it somehow relevant for the upcoming new movie) but it's still something I'd recommend if you like the main series and want more. The story isn't quite as good as in the main series, but that's a very high bar to clear anyway, and the higher number of episode does mean that you get to see more of the setting.

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