There are a lot of things I'll check out extraneous stuff just to see what's up. With Eva it feels like I'm doing it a disservice. The same 22 year old Japanese co-worker who wasn't aware that Kurosawa was well known outside of Japan and has seen all the extra crap exemplifies why not. When she found out I was familiar cause she was humming the theme and I joined in she asked who my favorite character is. I don't have a favorite character in this, it's a story about people thst are pretty hard to like. She's s big Asuka fan and it shows and we've had running gags over who is who, our Shinji is a 35 year old dude who is basically Rich Evans cause it would be funny. I'm Misato and Peddy who's Phillipino, doesn't talk much and is an absolute powerhouse on the line is Rei