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And wow, I fucking hated it to be perfectly honest. It seems like the entire show is only about Shinji's angst (and Rei increasingly I'm sure) and the characters various emotional issues, but like, okay, who cares? The situations they're thrown into are totally absurd and ridiculous so how can I take any of this drama stuff seriously?
Like these kids are the last best hope of mankind and they seem to be totally unsupported by anyone? Shinji was gonna live in a totally empty tenement and it's only his superior's minor moment of reasonable judgement that means he lives with her instead (and she is clearly no kind of parent figure), and Rei lives in a dark, dingy slum dwelling made of all concrete with nobody taking care of her either?
Like, their emotional reactions seems somewhat understandable but also completely dull and uninteresting because the situation they're in is absurd (and even then they both come off as pathetic and unlikeable - and no you can't say 'but that's the point!!', that doesn't make it entertaining to watch).
The less said about the non-angst portions of the story the better, the 'fights' are 10 minutes of foreplay for like 60 seconds of action if that, and while that's a common problem with anime, that doesn't make it excusable.
Yes this series is old and I'm sure it has inspired so much but people still recommend to watch it and it just seemed like garbage. Almost nothing is explained which means I can't possibly feel invested in this absurd world in any way. Every part of the setting seems to have been created with 'style over substance' in mind, urgh, just overall I found it absurd. Try not to give too much spoilers because I guess I might still try watch it, but I really don't see it redeeming itself.
Though for context I also hated 'The Godfather' and 'No Country For Old Men' and thought they were pretentious overlong shit, so maybe I'm just a contrarian.
605 posts and 176 image replies omitted.>>25664Exactly what I said.
>>25659>>25660 >Society doesnt allow children as much "self indulgence" as you think. Yes they do, I see it all the time and your examples are proving my point, rather than GIVING things for them to do, useful vocational skills, or encouraging them to spend time outside, they just have a complete hands off approach with anything good like such classes being prohibitively expensive.
>Look at the amount of parenting articles online that go apeshit over kids watching any news or expressing cynical opinions. <Look at this cherry picked example 1) parents today are constantly pulling their kids into political shit
2) those parents that do complain haven't actually done anything about it, such as restricting social media access for their teens. Honestly it would be an improvement.
>you wanna talk abput disvipline Talking like a /pol/faggot doesn't lend you credence
>Kids had alot more "freedom" back in the old days. Yes and no. Kids had freedom to LIVE, but were also required to be disciplined when necessary.
>You could literally bully someone half to death and it was shrugged off as "kids being kids." Again I don't know where you've been living but that hasn't changed. I know it because I've seen teachers literally brush off a kid being pegged in the back of the head with baseballs by their classmates during recess, until they were literally concussed. In Highschool I've seen kids do all sorts of horrid shit and you're more likely to see the victim suspended for retaliating against their bullies than seeing the bullies punished, because it's not about "ye olden days" it's about American society. Idiot
TL;DR:
>Y-you're coping! <starts repeating only semi-truthful twitter memes about kids today. Go back or just shut up and stop derailing.
>>25668And again, society bars kids from worldly affairs such as politics and work.
Kids are exposed to politics but theyre discouraged from participating as individuals.
social media in itself isnt the problem.
Again, the problem is that people are addicted to outrage.
Also, how are parents doing a hands off approach?
Parents are constantly putting tabs on ther kids.
Kids arent really allowed to have personal affairs independent of famiky or school anymore.
Academia is everything nowadays.
>>25662This. Childhood is just glorified slavery.
Ypure seen as aleech for not having a job yet adults will be indignant about a child working for their own bread.
Whats the point of children existing if they need money for fun yet theyre not allowed to work for it?
>>25675 (me)
Well, "should" is a relative term here because under socialism it is expected that the workers will have more leisure time but if you're an accelerationist and want to increase the contradictions of capitalism then I guess the road to more leisure time is paved with… child labor.
>>25675>>25676kids are exploited by the labor market indirectly.
Theyre treated as charity cases that need to be locled away from the real world.
Also capitalism doesmt wamt kids to work because it maintans the illusion of care free childhood to sell more knick knacks.
>>25679fair point.
But what Im saying is that kids should work, just not beyonf their abilities.
And Im glad you point out the absurdity of compulsory schooling.
Most of our education is centered around "social skills" and glorified brain games for 18-21 years of ones life.
>>25687See
>>25681 redditor scum.
>>25689>redditorWhats the differemce?
Imageboards are just as prudish/squeamish as Reddit. Only imageboards are even more obnoxious.
>>25691 >What's the difference<doesn't even deny itLMAO
>Imageboards are just as prudish/squeamish as Reddit Yeah-no. Go back to half-chan.
>>25690>Muh woman has to be a pure virgin! Incels like you need to touch grass. Also that's not what that even means, retard.
>>25693case in point.
Imageboards as usual have severe projection
>>25721 >This shoddy bait>using the Rebuild version OP is a faggot again.
>>25729No, you stupid incel. When shit hits the fan and Shinji is near catatonic, she wants to help him but the only way she knows to be close with someone in a way that is closer than simple friendship, is through sex because of her stunted experience in intimacy, which follows the overarching theme in Evangelion of the Hedgehog's Dilemma. Furthermore Shinji is in need of a different sort of connection, not that of romantic intimacy, but of family, but Misato doesn't know how to do that, having never truly experienced it herself.
Boiling it down to
>she goes out and gets sad that's she's only useful as a pussy provider. Is a disingenuously broad and vile smear.
>>25727 Possibly, but that's kinda the point, it never got to that point because originally Misato never intended it to, and only later fell back on it as a desperate measure, but at the wrong time. She was trying to appeal to something normal boys had - hormonal lust as a way of having fun and teasing. Funny part is that it could go that far. Shinji's reaction to her "Adult Kiss" was him finally coming out of catatonia, at least a little, and she's a central figure during his LCL mind-trip during Third Impact.
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