Did time, insanity of the fandom and mishandling of the franchise by Khara ruined your love for Evangelion?
NGE
Adam Martin
Daniel Campbell
No I still love Asuka
Matthew Taylor
nah
Austin Anderson
They might have fucked it up, but they didn't fuck it up that hard. I still love NGE and the rebuilds at least brought about some nice visuals and stuff.
Charles Hill
No moreso than the prequels and Disney Wars ruined Star Wars for me or how the post-MGS3 games ruined Metal Gear for me.
Here's one - is there any massive ongoing franchise that actually stayed consistently good?
Colton Martin
It's almost impossible to not love her.
Jeremiah Adams
Not at all. Now there are two Asuka's that I love instead of one.
Mason Russell
>is there any massive ongoing franchise that actually stayed consistently good
Only books of some authors. Other media is completely corrupted, from MLP to anime, from Hollywood to arthouse movies.
Levi Price
No
Logan Barnes
I never loved evangelion. But yes those things you mentioned did make me hate it more, especially the "insanity of the fandom" part (looking at asukafags in particular). I still like best boy though.
Cameron Howard
Is it possible to find a timeline where you can have them both? Twins were always my weakness.
Zachary Green
The way I see it, Evangelion is such a personal message for the viewer, you'd have to be very easily impressionable to let others ruin it for you.
I came very close to letting strangers ruining the thing for me with how threads tend to go nowdays, but like hell I'll let a bunch of strangers live rent free in my head. Fuckin tribal warfare was never the point of EVA, it's just a thing less than normal people do. Just look at the threads of other long standing anime, they all have the same type of garbage, the same language, the same vibe. Even Fate, the story with literal routes for each girl has this shit. There's a difference between liking a character and being a relentless waifufag, but it seems like it tends to get too commonly twisted.
No way in hell I'll let THESE "people" ruin the love I have for something.
I think EVA is a thing that ages like fine wine. I like it way better now than when I first got exposed to it.
And despite the less-than-stellar execution I of the Rebuilds, I can't help but really like them. Granted, I'll constantly point out stuff they could've done differently or better whenever I think about them, but I liked them for what ideas they tried to present and what they dictated about who the characters are.
And I mean, they weren't even disrespectful about any of the ships or anything. They acknowledged that they existed and that they were definitely meaningful, but the story of Rebuild was pointed towards something completely different, so they didn't happen. I feel like all the seething comes from the very same annoying RvB subset of anons donning a new coat of paint and doing basically the same shit that's always been done, divorced from the story and it's meaning. It would be stupid and laughable to have Evangelion be ruined for you from stuff like that.
Jack Sullivan
I riked it
Jacob Long
Didn't read.
Brandon Wright
>you'd have to be very easily impressionable to let others ruin it for you.
90% of Any Forums is easily impressionable passive viewers who get their opinions from thread osmosis
Anthony Perez
Imagine climbing into her plugsuit with her and then pushing the compression button. Which part of her body do you want your face to be smothered against?
Henry Gomez
I couldn't do Kenken dirty like that, user.
Liam Morris
Her ass obviously. Not sure how the logistics of that would work, but I don't care about logic when I can have Asuka's ass on my face.
Hunter Cruz
I still hope for a better world for anyone.
Isaac Morales
It's weird, moreso than most Eva is one of those shows that when reading opinions and "analysis" on it, it makes me wonder if people even actually watched it properly, if at all. Half of them seem to be based on either just the first several episodes, second-hand Twitter garbage or porno doujins.
It's an IP that's still quite popular 25 years on, but a good chunk of the "fanbase" either just pretend to like it for "clout" or just entirely miss the point of it.
Wyatt Taylor
No but my own life did. I always think about the optimism of the series especially the Rebuild ending and how Shinji achieves happiness and it makes me so bitter contrasting against my miserable and ever worsening life. I can't apply Anno's message to my own life even if I believe in it, theres no place in the world for losers like me and I wish I had never been born.
Brayden Baker
just the fans. I haven't watched it since it aired and I can't stand the fans.
I now hate the series and anything to do with it out of spite exclusively because of the fans.