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Neon Genesis Evangelion *spoilers*
Switchblade:
Okay, over the last couple of days, I've been watching this series for the first time ever. My flattie, Chris, lent me the series and movie, and I basically just watched it all during the last seventy hours or so.
I rate the whole thing as being about a 56.2 on the "What the FUCK??????[/i]-o-meter".
I mean, it started out as being fairly normalish - big robots, geeky kid, random biomechanical penguin, a couple of hot girls, some sexual tension and a few city-demolishing fights.
Towards the end... I found it horrifying. Especially the movie. Seriously, I doubt that I'm going to be able to sleep tonight, properly.
So: reactions, theories, comments, whatever the hell have you. Come rejoice the weirdness.
Garcin:
Heh. Although director Kazuya Tsurumaki is on the record saying that Christian symbols (e.g. angels, cross-shaped explosions, Adam, Eve, expulsion from Eden, virgin birth, etc.) were used because they looked cool to a Japanese audience, most of the serious analysis the series gets focuses on the anti-Christian theme. Namely that the Angels are symbolic of emissaries of the Catholocism, attempting to breach Neo-Tokyo first by force, but then eventually (as in the case of the last two angels) by subversion. Keep in mind that the Catholic church was banned from Japan for about 200 years, because of fears of supposed subversion.
I could go on and on and on on this subject, but I have a feeling that I've bored enough people already.
Switchblade:
Well, historically, the catholic church did have something of a history of meddling in Japanese affairs, claiming divine right to bring "civilisation" to the "primitives" - which basically meant squeezing the Imperial Court and the noble families for every scrap of wealth they could manage to get out of it without provoking a war. The Vatican got genuinely arrogant at one point.
AdamIsConceited:
That was such an amazing series... back in '99
Switchblade:
Thanks for that. Got anything else to add?
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