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Same, do not like to go out in crowded places at al. Sometimes with exceptions. So have fun with being in your room.

it was not meant as a insult but i just thought it was funny to see >.<

hey hello, i'm of the same age as you. nice to see. I think your favourite genres differ quite a lot from mine.

I'll have to check it out later. Right now I'm watching Shiki.

Yeah, I felt pretty much the same way about Shinsekai Yori. I can tell we're going to be discussing a lot of shows in the future, lol. I think you brought up a good point that this dystopia strayed from the more conventional technological apocalypse theme. In our endless pursuit of knowledge, what became too powerful beyond our control was not the creation, but rather the means. It's an interesting thought. I wouldn't say everyone was a morally questionable character though. I didn't think Saki and her friends were morally questionable. It was really just the elders and Squealer. And in the end, I actually found Squealer's pursuits to be quite noble. In fact, I think you could even question whether or not he really failed. After all, he got an audience with the top brass of human society during his trial and presented them with an idea (at the cost of his life) - that we're all the same. Of course they laughed at him, but this is a question that will fester within their minds and grow over time, especially after the monster rats nearly brought humanity to its knees. Are they really so much different from us? Does it even matter when they are clearly intelligent beings? There are monks in Tibet who set themselves on fire just to spread awareness of their oppression by the Chinese government. Are Squealer's actions so much different? I mean, he's still a shady character. After all, look what he did to his own mother. But the fact that he had the guts to risk it all just to get a glimpse of the sun, like Icarus, there's some nobility to that. To think a rat dared to resist the laws of nature, society, and birthright. Not only is it David and Goliath, it's the Wright Brothers spitting in the face of truth, that mankind cannot fly. Powerful stuff. After all, aren't we all striving to break free from our limitations?

My theory about Anno comes mainly from my experience as a writer. The way I write some of my stories, I start with an emotion. I think of an experience in my life where I felt that emotion, and I break apart why I felt that way, what were the pieces of facts and circumstances that created that emotion. Then I emulate that pattern with a different set of facts and circumstances. It's hard to explain. I might have to send you one of my published pieces some time to help you understand what I'm saying. But that's what I felt from Anno's work - that he was working backwards from the feelings of teenage angst and resentment (particularly toward women). The actually story isn't about that. It's not slice of life. It's action-psychological. But that's just the feeling I got. I think the extreme circumstances that these characters had to go through was to magnify this feeling in a way that's more entertaining. But it' just a hunch.

See, I didn't think Misato, Risuko, or even Shinji's dad were really all that important to the show. I thought they were more just casualties. So Misato fell in love with a guy who was like her dad. That's not really that weird. And I seriously doubt that was the only reason she liked Kaji. After all, a lot of women liked Kaji. I don't think she was confused about her feelings for Shinji. It seemed to me like she was just trying to motivate him. After all, based on what she said right afterwards, she was thinking about Kaji the whole time. She knew she was going to die, so why not make out with Shinji. The fate of the world (or at least the fate of Shinji) was hanging in the balance. In fact, I didn't even see her as much of a mother figure for Shinji. She seemed like an older sister throughout most of the show. I think Misato's ambiguity was more just about director Anno's inability to understand women. This would also explain the choking of Asuka. I think, deep down Anno is someone who resents women for their rejection of him, but also needs them at a primal level, and this makes him feel pathetic. Anyways, I didn't think Misato was messed up at all. She seemed fairly normal to me.

As for Ritsuko. She was just a psycho. I wonder what it was that Shinji's dad whispered to her that made her call him a liar. So Ritsuko sees her mother make out with a guy who treats her like crap (and eventually kills her) and decides to become his lover even knowing that he still in love with his dead wife, whom he's reincarnated into a 12 year old girl. Yeah, those two are pretty psychotic. But they weren't really relatable or realistic as Shinji and Asuka. So that's why I didn't really consider them. They were anomalies. I guess you could make the argument that Ritsuko was just someone out for revenge who was willing to use her body to get what she wants. That would also fit into this theme of - I hate women because I don't understand them - that seemed to engulf the creator of Eva at the time. In my opinion, looking at the show through his eyes (at least theoretically), I see a man who sees women sleep around with men other than himself to get what they want, while he longed deeply for any connection whatsoever. I think that manifested into the character that is Ritsuko. But I still feel the theme of the story is teenage angst because Anno struck me as someone who never outgrew his teenage angst and sexual frustration, even as an adult.

I don't think Asuka felt she needed Shinji for anything beyond merely being acknowledged. But I think her self-esteem is high enough to where she actually cares more about her own measurement of self-worth. After all, her depression problems were mainly caused by her own thoughts, albeit about how others perceived her. I would say her biggest problem was something a lot of teens struggle with - learning how to live in the moment and not care how others think of them. You can't really be happy unless you learn to let go of trying to impress everyone all the time. But when you're young and have no understanding of where you stand in society and how the world works, you fall back on the things you've done to find self-worth, rather than who you are at that moment in time, and how you make the people around you feel - something that develops as an adult.

Anyways, that just a really quick and not very thought out response. I have to get back to class, so didn't have time to clarify. Anyways, what did you think about Shinsekai Yori?

Hey, so I finally watched Evangelion. Actually, I only watched episodes 1-24 then jumped straight into the EOE movie. I haven't seen any of the remakes either. No plans for a review just yet. But here's my thoughts on the ending. Let me know what you think.

So, basically, the theme of the entire Evangelion series is about teenage angst. A lot of teens and suffer from depression because of their fear of rejection, their need for approval, their need for attention, their misunderstanding of idealized love, their inability to think about anyone else but themselves, their constant worrying about how they're perceived, their insecurities, their hormonal changes, their indecisiveness, their sexual frustrations, their feelings of inadequacy, their lack of confidence, their lack of self-identification, their petty jealousy, their inability to connect with others, their inability to accept their own limitations, their misunderstanding of each other, their uncertainty, their inability to ascertain where they stand in society, their realization of their differences, their need for others to lead them, their inability to lead others, their inability to love themselves, and just their general lack of direction in life. Not the least of which, is the director of Evangelion himself, who apparently suffered from severe depression and self-deprecation for his entire life prior to the success he gained through Evangelion. Reading up on him, he sounds like a guy who truly hated everything about himself and thought everything he did was horrible.

All of that negativity is manifested in different ways. Some teens want to die, some teens want everyone else to die, some teens want to crawl into a ball, some teens want others to understand, some teens want to screw their mothers. The point of Evangelion is to explore what it's like to be an awkward teen by placing these teens in ridiculous situations that heighten their stress - such forcing them to team up and fight giant monsters for the fate of mankind, and eventually becoming god. So in EOE, when Shinji becomes god, Shinji accidentally destroys the world when he wishes for everyone to understand each other. So everyone is destroyed and their souls are joined together and returned to god (heaven?). But because Shinji is the epitome of the awkward teen, he's unable to see himself as equal to the rest of the world, so he doesn't join everyone else, becoming the last man on earth. He is then tasked with recreating the world.

Instead, all he manages to do is bring Asuka back to life. The reason why he is only able to bring Asuka back to life is because Shinji is incapable of doing anything by himself. He needs someone else to "help" him do everything. But since he can't stay god forever, bringing back Asuka was the only thing he did. It's pathetic, but its so Shinji - because he sucks at life. When he brings her back, the first thing he tries to do is strangle her upon realizing how much of a idiot-loser he is, essentially in a fit of regret. But he realized he didn't want to be alone, and his lack of conviction caused him to stop. To which Asuka responds - "how disgusting," which is fully within her personality as well because Asuka idolizes the alpha-male from whom she pines for attention, and is disgusted by the unassertive man. While Shinji is strangling her, she actually touches his face because she actually likes Shinji (I think) and is proud of his conviction in killing her. But when he stops, she suddenly realizes she is stuck on earth with the most pathetic man in the world. The feeling is similar to how an abusive wife feels when her loser husband tries to kill himself but is too much of a coward to go through with it. I imagine director Anno probably suffered from some abusive relationships, where because of his mother-issues, his lovers resented him, causing him to lose all self-esteem. It's probably how he sees all women - as a giant ball of rejection, sexual frustration and angst.

So, did I get it right?

I'm interested to see where you found my profile at, as I have made myself pretty scarce on this site.

Thanks for the comment. I'm glad that there is someone like me who just enjoys watching anime instead obsessing over it. I'm also not a philosopher, I just like to think of myself as one.

Ah... you know I honestly can't remember. I just remember that I didn't watch it, haha. By the way, I've never seen Evangelion, is it any good? What would be a good comparison in your opinion (so I know what to expect)? Like what's it similar to?

Thanks, I try to mix it up every now and then. One of my favorite reviews that I read was only 3 words long - "Stupid, don't watch."

Great in depth review on Shingeki no Kyojin. Agree that sound track is awesome. The pacing didn't bother me since every episode ended with hook that made me want to see the next episode immediately. Still though, I know it's a common issue for anyone who sees it.

Props on your Mirri Niki Review, that thing is the mother of all evil.

Well of course everyone is different to everyone else so we just have to except the fact that people will hate on shows we ourselves love.
But with Mirai Nikki being my 10th favorite anime and Madoka being my 3rd most hated anime I will not agree with you emotionally but if I look threw MAL's ranking system and other people's opinions online you're probably sadly right on your claim.