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Old 04-29-2016, 06:02 PM   #16341 (permalink)
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Trying to explain what Evangelion is about would require a 10-page academic paper with MLA formatting. In a nutshell, teenagers pilot giant robots to stop the human race from being turned into a gestalt entity, both literally and metaphorically becoming one with God (or becoming God).


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Spoiler for Show's plot:
15 years fter a devestating event called Second Impact, the secret organization NREV finds an Angel, an extra-terrestrial creature prophecized about in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It wouldn't be the last to come.
NERV creates Evas, or evangelions. They are living war machines created to withstand the Angels. The evas need pilts, and one of them is troubled teenager Shinji Ikari, son of the apathetic Commender Gendo Ikari who runs NERV,


If you want more of an explanation, keep reading I can sum the majority of it quickly. If not, don't. But the movie might be confusing. You see, knowing the plot made me extremely hyped to see it. That and wathing this:



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The secret plot of NERV is to destroy the angels to unleash Third Impact. Humans were created by an ancient race, but they did not all look human. They were originally these angels. The first two, dubbed Adam and Lilith, came to Earth. And humans are called "Lilin" the spawn of Lilith. It is revealed that Rei, the first eva pilot, carries the soul of Lilith (or her DNA), and she, when reunited with Lilith's body and carrying a piece of DNA from Adam, would bring about Third Impact. An impact would occur whenever a child of Adam (Angel) and a child of Lilith (man) contacted. Through that process, there are multiple ways of doing that. In the final plot, Gendo's way (or another version of Gendo's way) turned Rei into Lilith. Afterwards, she would create Human Instrumentality, a time when the bodies of humanity would become primordial soup and their souls would emerge as one into a god-like being and the major plot of the villains including Gendo and the secret organization SEELE, who wanyed themselves to be the only ones merged. Of course, Rei went solo and did it hherself. Shinji stops this project by convincing Rei, now Lilith, that individuality is key to life. Rei accepts, and humanity is revived.


That's the shorter version, anyway. The poster is probably a sea of LCL.

Anyway, I'd love a second season going more into the organization SEELE.
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Old 04-29-2016, 06:56 PM   #16342 (permalink)
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But mine was snappier and was one of the only times anyone in their life would ever get the chance to use the word "gestalt" in context.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Well mine was flat-out better.
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Old 04-29-2016, 08:27 PM   #16344 (permalink)
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Close.

Spoiler for Show's plot:
15 years fter a devestating event called Second Impact, the secret organization NREV finds an Angel, an extra-terrestrial creature prophecized about in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It wouldn't be the last to come.
NERV creates Evas, or evangelions. They are living war machines created to withstand the Angels. The evas need pilts, and one of them is troubled teenager Shinji Ikari, son of the apathetic Commender Gendo Ikari who runs NERV,


If you want more of an explanation, keep reading I can sum the majority of it quickly. If not, don't. But the movie might be confusing. You see, knowing the plot made me extremely hyped to see it. That and wathing this:



Spoiler for More story:
The secret plot of NERV is to destroy the angels to unleash Third Impact. Humans were created by an ancient race, but they did not all look human. They were originally these angels. The first two, dubbed Adam and Lilith, came to Earth. And humans are called "Lilin" the spawn of Lilith. It is revealed that Rei, the first eva pilot, carries the soul of Lilith (or her DNA), and she, when reunited with Lilith's body and carrying a piece of DNA from Adam, would bring about Third Impact. An impact would occur whenever a child of Adam (Angel) and a child of Lilith (man) contacted. Through that process, there are multiple ways of doing that. In the final plot, Gendo's way (or another version of Gendo's way) turned Rei into Lilith. Afterwards, she would create Human Instrumentality, a time when the bodies of humanity would become primordial soup and their souls would emerge as one into a god-like being and the major plot of the villains including Gendo and the secret organization SEELE, who wanyed themselves to be the only ones merged. Of course, Rei went solo and did it hherself. Shinji stops this project by convincing Rei, now Lilith, that individuality is key to life. Rei accepts, and humanity is revived.


That's the shorter version, anyway. The poster is probably a sea of LCL.

Anyway, I'd love a second season going more into the organization SEELE.
What's LCL?
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Old 04-29-2016, 08:30 PM   #16345 (permalink)
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Yours is probably nonsensical and boring to anyone who hasn't seen the series, which is why I didn't try to summarize it. At least mine had a hook.

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It's a special liquid, which is either very close to, or actual amniotic fluid, that a pilot must submerge in and breath while in the cockpit of an Evangelion. Explaining its greater significance to the movie would be a spoiler... not that that seemed to bother Grungey.
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It's also not a good idea to not give away the story to the extent where you'd have to use spoilers...to explain the movie to someone who hasn't seen it.
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Old 04-29-2016, 08:39 PM   #16347 (permalink)
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I just noticed that your avatar was James Chance. I thought it might be at first, but then I saw your user title. Nice.
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What I'm getting from these descriptions is people piloting giant things and quasi supernatural stuff that's also sci-fi. Sounds like a lot of other anime. What sets this one apart?
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What I'm getting from these descriptions is people piloting giant things and quasi supernatural stuff that's also sci-fi. Sounds like a lot of other anime. What sets this one apart?
Heavy religious themes that draw upon ancient Jewish doctrines, incredibly dark psychological drama that would leave anyone on acid trembling in the fetal position, and the fact that it was basically the series' creator's way of dealing with a crippling existential crisis. It's impossible to really do the series justice in a synopsis, but it's to generic mecha anime what Hamlet is to a high school play. Yes, it takes many anime tropes, but turns them on their heads, almost in a deconstructionist way, to build something entirely unique.
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A unique blend of religion-inspired science fantasy and an effective psychological distortion. Plus, the Evas are actually living beings. I read some articles, and the religious references are innumerable, and all so well constructed and/or hidden. That why it's not like other anime. It's heart-wrenching, surprisingly realistic for its complex plot, and the movie is a replacement ending that suited the fans so much it is known as one of the greatest films ever made, possibly better than greats like Grave of the Fireflies and Totoro. I watch a lot of anime.

I don't generally like mecha anime. I love this.
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