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Been just sitting here listening to Ode to Joy for like 2 hours now. It was really awful, and still is. This sucks, but it's taking so fucking long...so I took out my phone. I'm fucked up, I know. But I've got time to kill ama

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What kind of adult stuff was Misato talking about?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Washing dishes, keeping the penguin fed, household stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

How did it feel to melt that one time?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is LCL like swimming in piss

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Never swam in piss but it smells like orange tang

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Are you inside the robots ass controlling it with levers?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I want to read a like twenty-five page critical essay on the themes of Evangelion

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, there's this open access edited volume Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion; it's not generally about that, but there might be some tidbits (and relevant to the OP, there's a chapter entitled Creating Happy Endings: Yaoi Fanworks as Audience Response to Kaworu and Shinji’s Relationship).

More relevant to your question, here's a random assortment of Google Scholar results:

My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion
Boy with machine: A Deleuzo-Guattarian critique of Neon Genesis Evangelion (full text available on Sci-Hub, just paste in the DOI: 10.1353/mec.0.0010)
Japanese Science Fiction in Converging Media: Alienation and Neon Genesis Evangelion (couldn't link directly to the PDF and the Academia.edu page would require a login, so I've linked the Google Scholar result which will take you to the PDF if you click on it)
Exegesis and Authorial Agency through Judeo-Christian Iconography in Japanese Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an Open Work
You Are Not Alone: Self-Identity and Modernity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Kokoro

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Like the themes of the robot I'm stuck in? You're weird

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried not being the fucking worst

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How many neo tokyos have you saved?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So I'll save another one? You know you can't unsave a neo Tokyo right? That saving is still a save.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's the same threat though, you didn't save shit you just delayed it. You don't say you stopped 9/11 if you stop only the first plane

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

second-plane Mr Ikari, a second impact has hit Antarctica

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Evangelion is so good ahhhh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Someone told me that this scene is where the studio lost funding which resulted in the bizarre last two episodes. Can anyone confirm this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah it's true

However this scene in particular has a pretty dramatic impact imo