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Maybe anime wasn't a complete mistake after all

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

She was an officer in the Luftwaffe before joining the Evangelion service.

There is official artwork of her in a straight Nazi Luftwaffe uniform.

There are also several swastikas in the show itself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro wtf, they ain't have to do that to her smh.

Also I might have missed the swastikas in the show, I've seen it multiple times and haven't ever seen any

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are a bunch in the manga version that they scrubbed for the show. With the 7 eyes symbol side by side.

https://preview.redd.it/c36g88cxxuv01.jpg?auto=webp&s=11cbdd56337690b5d63d2cfa3273b61cfa5e3412

Also while this is a fan blog, it also points out several extremely strange anti-Semitic and Nazi influences and coincidences.

https://officialevangelion.tumblr.com/post/190227360352/qmisato-qmisato-in-my-conversations-with/amp

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, that first link seems to be from the Great Teacher Onizuka manga, instead of Evangelion, though the Seele symbol is apparently a reference.

Evangelion takes a lot of references and imagery from religion, from Christianity to Judaism what with stuff like angels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Adam and Lilith, etc, but I honestly think it's a reach to directly connect it to Nazism and antisemitism.

Japan was on the side of the Nazis during WWII and never actually apologized for their atrocities, but would that have shown up so blatantly in their media? I'm not sure.

The official media of her in Nazi uniform when she was born in the 21st century is really baffling to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Many people in Japan have no idea who Hitler even was. Or at most they know him as “the guy who did something bad once but I don’t know what exactly”.

WW2 is a very suppressed topic in Japan.

Also Onizuka was worked on by several members who also worked on the Neon Genesis team.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FWIW the manga version is very separate, even if it technically started beforehand.

E: read the link, yea that's a bit sussy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fuck, how was she in Luftwaffe when she was straight up born in 21th century?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one knows. “Artistic liberty” I guess. It’s an extremely strange piece of lore they shoehorned in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does she look, like, thirteen?