/lit/ - Literature

>>23386654
Neon Genesis Evangelion is the Ring Cycle for manchildren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP_ZnrN36bY

>>23190425
Der Ring des Nibelungen. This was decided long ago. Siegfried is Shinji, Wotan is Gendo, Fafner is an angel, Brunnhilde is Asuka, etc.

>supernatural forces and battles
>family relationship troubles
>individuals having to face the end of the world, but also the ability to avert that doom resting on special individual's choices
>psychoanalytical themes like incest and rebelling against the father
>balances mythology with individual drama
>literally invented the phrase 'live, laugh, love'
>basic message is leave art and politics and enjoy life (Wagner originally wanted to perform the Ring for three weeks then burn the theatre and score so people could take the message into the real world, build a better society and not get lost in the work itself)
>similarly choreographs movement to intoxicating music

>>23036754
Der Ring des Nibelungen.

>supernatural forces and battles
>family relationship troubles
>individuals having to face the end of the world, but also the ability to avert that doom resting on special individual's choices
>psychoanalytical themes like incest and rebelling against the father
>balances mythology with individual drama
>literally invented the phrase 'live, laugh, love'
>basic message is leave art and politics and enjoy life (Wagner originally wanted to perform the Ring for three weeks then burn the theatre and score so people could take the message into the real world, build a better society and not get lost in the work itself)
>similarly choreographs movement to intoxicating music

Think about it, Siegfried is Shinji, Wotan is Gendo, Fafner is an angel, etc.

>>22247623
The experience of NGE can only be compared with another Gesamtkunstwerk.

>>21368845

>>20785078

Is Der Ring des Nibelungen the Neon Genesis Evangelion of literature?