/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7248256]

Is neon genesis evangelion a crash course for the bullshit called nihilism? If so thanks god I never wasted my life reading it.

[Anonymous No.7248261]

>>7248256
No, weeb.
Go read the wiki on nihilism.

[Anonymous No.7248265]

>he doesn't watch anime
>he isn't a nihilist
>he thinks NGE is about nihilism
>he posts anime on /lit/

[Anonymous No.7248275]

Pretty innovative cinematography but it would be better if they sticked with giant robots fighting

[Anonymous No.7248277]

>>7248256
>NGE
>About Nihilism

Holy fuck I swear that 95% of people who watch anime are fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.7248284]

>>7248277
this tbh

[Anonymous No.7248285]

>>7248277
*holy fuck I swear 100% of people who shit post on /lit/ are retarded.

[Anonymous No.7248298]

NGE is misanthropic; Anno was essentially denouncing anime and the culture around it when he wrote it. In an initial format that he knew would become popular (unlike several of his previous works.)

And look, it's basically the Japanese Star Wars now.
>>7248265
Nihilism is only propagated by children who started with Nihilism.

[Anonymous No.7248299]

I think it has some freudian shit going on with shinji wants to fuck rei who is his mothers clone. The whole cross and kabalah shit is just filler but the ending is nice; trying to explain the whole Jungian Self and the world around shinji. In terms of nihilism, based on what Kaworu's has said in the reboot they are trying to give a go at Nietzsche's Eternal recurrence with making shinjis choice useless with every apocalypse. Or maybe all of this is bullshit. (probably).So maybe you are on the right track but we still need to see the new NGE movies to confirm that.

[Anonymous No.7248301]

>>7248299
>watching the rebuilds
why do this to yourself?

[Anonymous No.7248303]

>>7248256
>NGE
>About nihilism

Jesus fucking christ anime fans are the dumbest people. NGE is just a highly stylized, provocative, mecha-psychological anime that's well made. Everything about it is superficial, from the pointless christian references to the beta complex of Shinji.

[Anonymous No.7248315]

>>7248301
mah waifu, thats all.

[Anonymous No.7248320]

>>7248303
>well made

It is rushed sometimes, pretentious sometimes, dumb sometimes with a shitty ending.

>go at Nietzsche's

Thats why you aways feel a fedora tipping from the screen after episodie 10

[Anonymous No.7248328]

>>7248315
That's not the real Asuka.

[Anonymous No.7248331]

>>7248315
At least you have good taste in that regard.

[Anonymous No.7248334]

>>7248256
Why do you think it's okay to post your animus on a literature board?

[Anonymous No.7248337]

>>7248315
Asuka Soryu is best girl, but Asuka Shikinami is hands-down the worst girl.

[Anonymous No.7248341]

>>7248298
You sound like the kind of person who Christposts without a shred of irony.

[Anonymous No.7248342]

>>7248256
No, it's about anxiety and disconnect and shit.
But why do you hate nihilism bro?

[Anonymous No.7248350]

>>7248341
>being this buttblasted that i insulted your sacred cow

[Anonymous No.7248357]

>>7248256
How did you get nihilism out of NGE? You really should explain your thought process.

[Anonymous No.7248361]

>>7248342
Basically by the way /lit/ generally portraits it

[Anonymous No.7248364]

>>7248298
Lol no, it is a critique of the otakus, and in a way a 'deconstruction'. But these are only a handful of scenes in the series. The most obvious denouncement would be at the beginning of EoE, where it's a clear fuck you to the otakus critizing the series. The rest is pretty straight forward, no real critic of the industry or anything, just that neets should experience the world.

[Anonymous No.7248365]

>>7248337
Asuka is the best girl not matter what shape she takes.

[Anonymous No.7248366]

>>7248350
Does anyone think that the class rep is low-key best girl? For you nerds who don't know, she's the one looking on demurely at Asuka in that pic.

[Anonymous No.7248370]

>>7248366
She's okay. I like all of the girls in NGE, but with such stiff competition in MIsato and Rei I don't see how she could compete. She's better than Ritsuko, though.

[Anonymous No.7248372]

>>7248364
I think you're just pulling nonsense out of your ass
>>7248366
Two people on /a/

[Anonymous No.7248379]

Also the we fight god at the end is too cliche for me

[Anonymous No.7248380]

>>7248370
Ritsuko's not even a girl in my mind. She wants to be her father too much and has short hair (short hair, incidentally, is why I can't vote Rei for best girl despite her other sterling qualities).

[Anonymous No.7248389]

>>7248379
>fight god
what

[Anonymous No.7248390]

>>7248380
The reason I can't vote for Rei is that she doesn't receive enough development. She's a really good character, but in comparison to Asuka she's not as well fleshed out in my opinion. Plus, Asuka manages to be vulnerable and believable as a 14 year old girl while being a fucking badass in EoE.

[Anonymous No.7248393]

>>7248379
What?

[Anonymous No.7248395]

God I hate weebs. I can't wait until trump deports them all to mexico.

[Anonymous No.7248398]

>>7248379
They don't fight god. How can people misunderstand something so hard? This show is really good and all, especially for anime, but it's no fucking Ulysses. It's not like it's some incomprehensible avant-garde piece that is confounding and enigmatic. It's pretty fucking straightforward.

[Anonymous No.7248401]

>>7248390
>while being a fucking badass in EoE.
>>7248395
Don't use words you don't understand.

[Anonymous No.7248402]

>>7248379
When did they fight God?

[Anonymous No.7248406]

>>7248390
Asuka may be the most sympathetic character in the whole series. Misato could be but I think her age makes it harder to feel for her all the time, though my hedonist phase in college has made some of her insecurities hit closer to home than they did when I first saw Eva back in the day.

[Anonymous No.7248409]

I fucking love anime, but this is not the place for it. This is the LITERATURE board. For LITERATURE.
Anime goes on the ANIME board. The board for anime.

Why do you all discuss EVA when Serial Experiments Lain is clearly the best anime ever made?

[Anonymous No.7248411]

>>7248398
I think it might be a troll, i've never heard anyone make this leap before.
Mostly because there is no fight at the end

[Anonymous No.7248412]

>>7248402

God send angels to destroy the human race because they went too far, exactly same history for fullmetal alchemisty and at least 30 rpgs I remember playing during my teenager years.

Now I'm gonna watch ergo proxy expecting more laughs from the 'deep' moments

[Anonymous No.7248417]

>>7248409
>implying /lit/ could even SEEM to understand

[Anonymous No.7248421]

There are people in this very thread that think the last 2 episodes were important and deep when in reality it was just some shit they whipped up because they ran out of funding.

[Anonymous No.7248422]

>>7248406
I find that while I think Asuka is very sympathetic, that she's very polarizing to most people that see the show. Maybe it's because she acts like a bitch, but when the show goes into such great detail into the characters psychology it's pretty damn easy to see why that is.

>>7248409
I'm talking about it cause the thread's here and /lit/ is infinitely smarter than /a/ (which isn't an incredible feat I know). Lain is really good, and certainly has more philosophical depth than Eva, but I don't think it hits as many highs with it's characters and story. It suffers from the same issue as The Stranger for me, that it places it's philosophy above it's aesthetics and character development. Still quite excellent though, and a worthy competitor to NGE for best anime of all time.

[Anonymous No.7248424]

>>7248412
Did you accidentally watch Gurren Lagan and misunderstand its plot?

[Anonymous No.7248425]

>>7248409
Read the first post, I tought it was about nihilism that is daily featured on /lit/. Now you see what I did?
>>7248411
episodie 20 something

[Anonymous No.7248428]

>>7248412
>God send angels to destroy the human race because they went too far
You dont watch it, did you?

[Anonymous No.7248430]

>>7248417

[Anonymous No.7248431]

>>7248412
>same story as fullmetal alchemist
is this some fucking elaborate baiting

[Anonymous No.7248432]

>>7248421
I dunno if you've seen EoE, but the vast majority of the themes, ideas, and much of the aesthetic of that movie came from the last two episodes. Really, EoE is just an expansion of the ideas presented in the original finale. It's obviously much better, but it's clearly very deeply rooted in what the original finale started, but couldn't finish due to financial concerns.

[Anonymous No.7248435]

>>7248421
I think you misunderstood this one

[Anonymous No.7248436]

The show is anti-solipsism, not anti-nihilism.

[Anonymous No.7248439]

What is the Evangelion of books?

[Anonymous No.7248440]

>>7248424
Oh shit another one using the same bullshit plot. Maybe I overrate innovation but I really hate cliches.

[Anonymous No.7248442]

>>7248439
Book of the meme sun

[Anonymous No.7248445]

>>7248417
What is the Lain of books?

[Anonymous No.7248446]

>>7248390
Wasn't the point of her character that she kept dying repeatedly and so any character development made always regressed?

[Anonymous No.7248447]

>>7248445
None, because Lain only works in a visual medium.

[Anonymous No.7248448]

>>7248422
Well yeah, you're gonna trigger a bunch of robots when you make a mecha anime with a hot, smart, bitchy girl like the ones most people who watch mecha animes can't have in real life.

[Anonymous No.7248451]

>>7248445
Mona Lisa overdrive

[Anonymous No.7248453]

>>7248445
Your posting on it

[Anonymous No.7248454]

>>7248431
Scar talks about it in a episodie he is remembering the time his brother was still alive.
>>7248428
Shinji's father explains that man tried to create another god and now god is furious and send the angels to punish humanity.

[Anonymous No.7248456]

>>7248445
If i'm being an honest man and not memeing, I'd say probably something by Philip K. Dick, Lain is great but it's really not THAT hard to understand

[Anonymous No.7248457]

>>7248446
Why didn't they clone a more competent pilot like Asuka instead? Checkmate evatards.

[Anonymous No.7248462]

>>7248446
That's part of it, that she wasn't able to make a meaningful action because she would just be revived no matter the outcome, but I still think that we could've stood to learn more about her in other aspects. She remains a bit of an enigma for the entirety of the show.

[Anonymous No.7248466]

>>7248454
>fuck I need to explain to my pussy son why he has to fight
>I'll make up some shit about the angels being sent by God. Just like his gay video games

[Anonymous No.7248468]

>>7248457
Because Asuka is vain and has a quick temper, generally emotionally unstable and difficult to control, whereas Rei is far easier to command.

[Anonymous No.7248471]

>>7248454
>unironically using Gendo as a source of information

your next words will be 'Humbert Humbert was a reliable narrator'

[Anonymous No.7248473]

>>7248457
Also why did they bother getting fucking useless Shinji instead of just using more clones.

[Anonymous No.7248478]

Who is the Gendo of books?

[Anonymous No.7248480]

>>7248473
His synch rate.

[Anonymous No.7248481]

>>7248473
The Eva units are made to fit only one pilot, since they incorporate the soul of the pilot's mother. There are problems if you try to swap pilots from one unit to another.

[Anonymous No.7248492]

Why they are fighting angels in the first place?

[Anonymous No.7248496]

>>7248492
>why don't they just let the monsters from space kill everyone
Truly a mystery.

[Anonymous No.7248498]

>>7248492
They tried 2 kill the world.

[Anonymous No.7248503]

>>7248196
What would happen if they just left Earth? Their technology seemed advanced enough.

[Anonymous No.7248506]

>>7248492
1. To stop them from starting Third Impact and taking their place in the Human Instrumentality Project.

[Anonymous No.7248510]

>>7248481
>clone mother
>use multiple souls to make evas
>clone son/daughter to pilot
ez no more retarded drama queen kids to ruin everything

[Anonymous No.7248511]

>>7248503
Left earth and went where?

[Anonymous No.7248513]

>>7248496
Truly a mistery since they are nihilist and dont give a shit about life

[Anonymous No.7248515]

>>7248503
Oh fuck wrong quote.

>>7248511
Anywhere else, make a generation ship and go to another star or something.

[Anonymous No.7248517]

>>7248513
>Nihilists want to die
First off, I don't think they're nihilists.
Additionally, most nihilists just take it to mean that you can assign your own value to things, so if they decide that fighting angels would be a kick in the pants, they will fight angels.

[Anonymous No.7248521]

>>7248453

This tbh fam

[Anonymous No.7248522]

>>7248515
Why didn't they just take the Galaxy Express?

[Anonymous No.7248523]

>>7248506
Why aliens would want to fuse themselves into one? Do they suffer from muh parents sucks too?

[Anonymous No.7248525]

>>7248515
>Evangelion sequel set in an interstellar ship
Fund it

[Anonymous No.7248542]

guys, have you realized this is /lit/ and it's not /a/?

[Anonymous No.7248544]

>>7248542
Eva is literature if you watch it subbed.

[Anonymous No.7248546]

>>7248542
Asukaposting is its own thing, tbh. Evangelion is a Manga and a highly referential show, so simmer down.

[Anonymous No.7248549]

>>7248546
keep saying that :^)

[Anonymous No.7248552]

>>7248544
Kek

[Anonymous No.7248569]

>>7248523
It's the pinnacle of existence, they would be able to fully actualize themselves. We can only guess as to what forms they'd take after reaching it, as we don't see things through their eyes.

[Anonymous No.7248583]

>>7248569
They would become humans.