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Anime Relations: Mirai Nikki (TV)

Can you imagine this for me?

You are suddenly thrown into a setting that you don't quiteee understand... how you got there. But that's okay. Maybe you missed a chapter-no? ...Well ok. But wait, what the fuck am I doing? Why am I in a vent? And who the fuck is that? Wait, why is that pink haired girl coming up to that random chick with an axe while moaning some kids name? WAIT WHY THE FUCK DID SHE JUST KILL HER?? NO WAIT WHAT THE FU- huh? Who the fuck is that guy? Was that supposed to be his name at the bottom of the panel there? Hold on- where the fuck did he go?? What?? Wait, why the fuck am I in a nuclear power plant now?? NO, GO BACK, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO VENT GIRL?? NO, WHAT THE FUCK, PINK HAIRED GIRL STOP, DO NOT JUST KILL THAT GUY WE SAW IN THE LAST CHAPTER FOR THAT ONE PANEL, I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE DOIN- oh ok im suddenly on tokyo tower staring down people that are supposed to be my arch enemies...but..who the fuck are you again??

aaaand that right there is the manga mirai nikki.

Lack of spacing intended.

Anime Relations: Shinseiki Evangelion

Come on, the original writer of Neon Genesis Evfangelion didn't even like the way it turned out. He was only happy with it after the rebuild movies.

I seriously do not understand why people take budget of something into account.

Who gives a shit if they had amazing budget or shit budget?

Does it deserve admiration if it's awesome and it had almost no budget? Sure!
Does it deserve admiration if it's awesome and had a huge bugdet? Sure!

Does it deserve admiration if it's average and had almost no budget? meh
Does it deserve admiration if it's average and had a huge budget? meh

Does it deserve admiration if it's shit and had no budget? No.
Does it deserve admiration if it's shit and had a huge budget? No.

FINAL QUESTION: Should admiration come into account when objectively reviewing a series that even the author wasn't happy with?

I'll give you guys a hint: No.

inb4 leading final question

Anime Relations: Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2

Well, for starters, he took a god damn sword through the chest. That should be your first indicator that he's dead.

Your second indicator should be the cart guy in the end. First of all here- if anyone thinks he's Lelouch because there was a close up on his face and a laugh, you're moronic because that scene is a fanmade fake. It is not the "director's cut" ending. It was and is fake.

Anyway, I see a lot of people talking about the cart guy and asking "why wuz hez face be all covered up", and I have to say- You are a bunch of straw grasping plebs.

By covering up his face, they remove his importance. Please note- they didn't throw a god damn mask on him, they just barely brushed by him. Hatted-Cart-Man was a device used to set the tone of the ending- a completely unknown guy just doing his job, living an unassuming life, and he carries C.C., most likely because she just hitched a ride (>inb4 NTR). The meaning behind this is clear, she intends to live on and have a humble life, just as the guy driving the cart is.

Using a young man with a known face would frankly just provide unwanted NTR fantasies among people, as his face being known would provide a suggestion of importance. Notice that the face of someone being known represents importance- Shirley's mental breakdown, vying to see the faces of people, and the more obvious- "Who is Zero" thing going on, where people want to know who he is.

The subway scene in R1 also points out this importance, as the first thing they asked for was his face, automatically associating the face with importance for the rest of the series. They also wanted to make cart man a "symbol" (like Zero becoming a symbol) for C.C. being carried into her new life, hence the facelessness.

Now why is this positive proof that Lelouch is dead? Well, if he was alive, then why the hell wouldn't he be with C.C.? She's the only person he can come into contact with safely. After all, Suzaku is "dead", and a high profile person like Zero can't just be seen with the supposedly dead ruler of the world. He DID promise to make her happy, right? So he should be with her if he was alive - but he's not. So did he just not fulfill his promise? Nope. He created a world where EVERYONE could be happy.

You could argue that Lelouch being the cart guy could still tie in with the themes presented above, but you would be in fact very, very wrong. See, Lelouch is not humble by any means.

People might say he was humble at the beginning, that he had the humble wish for him to live in a world where Nunnally can live without fear- but wait! He wanted to live in a world that is different than his current one, and to do so, he will use any means necessary to do so...uh...THAT'S humble? I don't think so. Not that this is aa bad thing - I mean, why SHOULD he be humble? He's badass. Badasses don't need to be humble, that's why they're badasses.

What this means is that there is no way in hell that Lelouch would subject himself to a humble life. His last words were him talking about how he destroyed the frigging world and remade it. Living an unassuming life doesn't fit his character at all.

Why this same type of logic will not apply to the likes of Jeremiah is simple- Jeremiah's master just fulfilled his greatest, most ambitious plan. For Jeremiah to strive for more would be contrary to his loyalty. There is nothing left to do but live an unassuming life in the world Lelouch created. This also explains why he was smiling in the end. There was no secret plot where Lelouch was immortal all along.

Lelouch vi Britannia lived a short, brilliant life. While he wasn't able to dictate his birth, but he made damn well sure to dictate his death.

As for the possibility of the Code being forced on him by his father- well, even if you put all the completely flawless (I'm so humble) reasons above aside, then consider this line by Lelouch as he is stabbed by Suzaku:

"The punishment for what you've done shall be this, then. You will live on, always wearing that mask serving as a knight for justice and truth. You will no longer live your life as Suzaku Kururugi. You shall sacrifice the ordinary pleasures of your life for the benefit of the world. For eternity..."

>For eternity

>Eternity

Wow, what ever could THAT mean?

Nothing, actually.

Just joking. It represents 2 possibilities- 1. Lelouch being completely badass and passing the Code onto Suzaku magically - I mean, he is a genius, so why not?

Or 2. He meant for Suzaku to make Zero a symbol for all of eternity.

While 2 is more realistic but less badass, I'll still go with #1 anyway. Why? Well, he stated "sacrifice the ordinary pleasures of your life for the benefit of the world...For Eternity". If Suzaku is dead, then he can't really be sacrificing his ordinary pleasures.

A fun explanation here though - if you decide that Lelouch meant #2, then the bad grammar can be explained easily - He was fucking dying. His last words, even in the offical english dub - "I destroy....the world....and create it...a new", had terrible grammar. +1 for creativity/realism, Sunrise. I mean, you have to change the words "destroy" AND "create" to fix the grammar. Maybe one slip would go unnoticed, but two, in rapid sequence? Nah. So maybe Lelouch meant #2 and just screwed up his grammar because he was dying. Or maybe it was just a plot hole that they tried using Lelouch's badassery to pass off (#1). Maybe his geass caused Suzaku to become immortal. Oh well.

It's also interesting to note that you can still see the code on Charles when he disappears, so you can kinda just slap yourself in the face right about now if you think the code was passed on.

I guess you might say that all of this could be based off preemptive assumptions, and I could see where you'd be coming from. But you'd be wrong. I think the points listed above are far more persuasive than arguments such as "WHY WAS THAT GUY WEARING A HAT?!#%!" or "HE GOT CHOKED SO HES IMMORTAL EVEN THOUGH THOUGH THEY WOULD'VE POINTED OUT SUCH AN IMPORTANT EVENT MORE EXPLICITLY (OBSERVE THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE LINE THAT THEY SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS INSTEAD OF JUST IMPLYING IT-NOT THAT THIS IS A BAD THING, JUST THAT THEY WERE VERY EXPLICIT FOR MOST OF THE SERIES, VIEW SHIRLEY'S BREAKDOWN FOR FURTHER PROOF OF EXPLICIT-NESS)". Anyway, point is- He's dead.

Anime Relations: Shinseiki Evangelion

This anime is vile.

If sin exists, then this is its embodiment.

Why do I feel so strongly about this anime? It is, frankly, because I was tricked. I was tricked by those of you who recommended this anime, by those of you screaming your blind fanboy shouts and by those of you who chose to conform into the system of Evangelion fanboys/girls.

I know a person who hasn't even watched the series, only the rebuild movies, and yet he claims this is such an amazing work, which played a large factor into my choosing to watch this anime, along with the rest of you idiots.

And while we're here, let me just point something out to you right now, you blind lemmings - I am not speaking of the shitty rebuild movies of your shitty anime. I will never review those movies, because I will never watch them. Ever. I am speaking of the shitty 26 episode piece of shitty shit that is Neon Genesis Evangelion - the shit (series).

I'm going to target something that really annoys me- well, annoys me slightly more than the rest of the series: The characters.

Why do you people say that the characters are so amazing? Because they aren't. They suck.

The main character is a whiny little regressive bitch- the main 'goal', the target symbol for his character is his fist, and of course, Eva. Clearly, his inability to clench his fist implies a sort of shallow identity crisis, and Eva enables him to retain some form of identity as he would obviously need to clench his fist to pilot the damn thing. When he finally manages to clench his fist, that's supposed to show his new found resolve to stand up for himself, for his own identity, and to show that he is not a tool, to show that he is willing to row row fight the powah.

So what's the problem here? It sounds great, right? 2deep? Fucking wrong. Anything can sound great at the inception. Any premise can sound fine.

Oh, a magic sky man sent his son down to die for us for the sin that the magic sky man created in the first place, and the church is here to help us find our way to this magic sky man, so long as we give money to it (because lol, the poor will be rich in heaven, right?) ?

Oh, we should stand up for our faith by crashing a fucking plane into a building to show our resolve, and show that we are willing to fight the powah?

Okay, that first one was me ranting on a different subject, but that second one clearly had a clear theme running from it and Evangelion. But guess what? That resolve ended up killing thousands, and more importantly, wasted approximately 500 minutes of my life.

And just a note here, I am not disapproving of the row row fight the powah movement, I just fucking hate it when you try to do it without a drill that pierces the heavens.

Anyway, there is literally zero character development for the main fucking character from episodes 1-25 (hence 500 minutes for the slower ones out there, which I will assume will be most of the fanboys). At one point, he manages to clench his fist (outside of Eva), but then he relapses into not being able to clench his damn fist for no bloody reason what so ever.

His shitty resolve, his shitty symbol, him taking the need for Eva as a symbol for his identity away and standing up for his own self by clenching his fist was shattered that easily? Seriously? And they expected us to be wowed by this annoyingly pathetic 5.6792 seconds of bravery, then have him relapse into the pathetic little shit that he was before, for a full 25 fucking episodes before he clenches his shitty fist again?

What the HELL is that? This retard is supposed to be the main character, right!? Do I even need to talk about the other characters when the main one is this poorly 'developed'?

I'm not even going to go into the retarded episodes which involved blatant fanservice (if you can even call it that, since fanservice is supposed to be enjoyable), where he has random little mental breakdowns for the entire fucking episode, because I know every fucking one of you skipped some of that.

But this brings me to something else- the episodes themselves.They were mildly entertaining (not the fucking characters, the episodic story garbage), but they got old, fast. I'm sure you noticed the patterns, even if you are going to be willfully ignorant in public: problem find, solving problem, something totally "unexpected" (angel attack.) happens, Evas rape angel, the end.

Occasionally, there may be some variation in between the totally "unexpected" step and the Eva rape step, but here's the thing: That general story line (problem, problem solving the problem, problem solved) isn't that annoying. I'm guessing plenty of anime have used it before. In fact, that's pretty much the only general story line out there. But you know what is annoying? Repeating that general process, for a full 14 fucking episodes, straight, with very little attempt at any variation in the episodes. And that is essentially the first half of Neon Genesis Evangelion. 14 episodes of bullshit. The second half, is comprised of, as mentioned earlier, those retarded mental breakdowns, scattered with a few of that general process. In otherwords, bullshit supplemented with giga-bullshit.

I simply cannot understand how anyone can honestly say to themselves that Neon Genesis Evangelion is even remotely passable as an anime. It doesn't matter if it was "unique", or if it "unorthodox" for its time. It fucking sucked. That's the point, and it is a point made clear by the series itself. It presented fun ideas, made poor use of them, and sucked.

A question that might be asked here is that, even if it sucked so hard, there's no reason to really hate it, right? Well, that's actually half right. I don't just hate Neon Genesis Evangelion. I hate you. I hate those of you who have conformed to the idiocy that is the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise and have attempted to indoctrinate the rest of us and waste HOURS of our lives. But really, the main point is, GIVE ME BACK MY 500+ MINUTES OF MY LIFE.