merryfistmas said:No I mean more interesting, if I meant fappable able I would have said that. Rei's in a situation where her whole world has been created by commander Ikari, she doesn't start acting human until another person, Shinji, reaches out to her and her transition from robot-like to human is one of my favorite parts of the show, it's the same reason I love Pino from Ergo Proxy. Asuka, unlike most characters of her type, has a reason to act that way. She's a prodigy and has to deal with people who she can reasonably see as inferior. It takes a long time for we to accept that other people can be part of her team and that she doesn't have to do everything on her own is also one of my favorite parts of the show. Shinji is the poster child for depression, I don't mind depressed characters or "pussy" MCs, I loved Tsukimoto, Satou, Simone, Shinji's problem isn't that he's depressed, it's that it's his entire personality and the way they go about showing that he's depressed is obnoxious. I feel like the authors beating me over the head with how worthless and depressed he is, and instead of giving him real character development in the end, we get those last two episodes (and yes, I know Anno ran out of money) and EoE where his "character development" takes place inside his head in a series of nonsensical fever dreams.
You make it seem like the whole series is showing shinji being worthless depressed and you forget that 2/3 of the series is him trying get over him emotional problems and interacting more with others.Sure in the end he always end up retorning back to his old self but the situaons on which that happens are completely understable and his reactions are not obnoxious or overexageradated in any way
And the way they show he is depressed is brilliant both his failures whem trying to run away show how incapable of actually commiting to any decision he try to make because of how insecure and in need of constant emotional support he actually .his constant being seeing on trains and listeming to the same music shows how he constantely runs away from his problems through repetitive behaivor.The way he become such a person with such inferioty complex and being that depedent on other for his own self esteem is also perfectely explained both his father and his mother abandoned him when he was young leaving him with a teacher that barely cared about him.Shinji spent his entire childhood alone having to live with such a trauma is mostly what leads him to be this depressed insecure teenager