Neon Genesis Evangelion — How Japanese Fans React

Also, they never properly explain anything to the Children.

あとチルドレン達にちゃんと説明しない

A world without a single adult you can lean on. The worst possible one.

頼れる大人がひとりもいない最悪な世界

Say what you want, but Rei is just cute.

なんだかんだ綾波がかわいい

Isn't the problem that not one character ever leads with a reason or an explanation, only with emotion? That's what I kept thinking the entire time I watched it back then. And the ones who do explain go the other way, no feeling at all, just flat facts. I had no idea there was a reason that deep behind it. Reconstructed, huh.

これ、登場人物みんなが最初に決して理由と説明はせず、感情のみで接するから問題あるんじゃないのか？ と思って当時はずーと観てたな。 説明してきた人は逆に感情入れないで、淡々と事実だけ言うし。 まさか…そんな深い理由があったとはね… 再構成された…か(汗)

I love how the three of them sit in "In the Still Darkness." Rei: "Humans feared the dark, used fire, and have lived by carving the darkness away." Asuka: "oooh, deeep~" Something about that little exchange just gets me, no idea why.

「静止した闇の中で」の3人の距離感好き 綾波「人は闇をおそれ火を使い闇を削って生きてきたわ」 アスカ「てっつがくぅ〜」 特にこのやり取りがなんか無性に好き

It's completely unfair. They tell him go out and fight, then when it fails he's told to atone for his sins. The other pilots don't get told maybe I should have taken it down myself either, they just get yelled at for being slow to decide. Across this whole film series Shinji gets an absurd deal.

完全に理不尽だよな戦ってこい！と言っといて失敗したら罪を償えって言われるし他のパイロットも自分が倒せたら…とかじゃなくて判断が遅いだよ！とキレられるしでこの映画シリーズ全体通してシンジ理不尽な目に会いすぎ

The real problem children in the original Eva aren't Shinji, Asuka, or Rei — it's Misato and Gendo.

旧エヴァの問題児はシンジ・アスカ・レイじゃなくてミサト・ゲンドウだからな

The responsibility lies with Anno for writing that scenario in the first place.

そういうシナリオを書いた庵野監督に責任はある。

An announcer who started watching on a comedian's recommendation said: the early episodes are so fun — that sweet, awkward shared-living life, packed with the dreams of teenage boys and girls. So how does it end up like THAT…?

芸人に勧められて見始めたアナウンサーが 初めの頃はとっても楽しい 嬉し恥ずかし共同生活　 年頃の少年少女の夢が詰まってる なんでああなってしまうのか… って言ってた

Shinji did nothing wrong lol

シンジ君は悪くないw

This is so true. The whole "Shinji is just a whiny wimp" take — I'm convinced it's written by writers who never watched the actual show and are just parroting hearsay.

これほんとそう。シンジがウジウジしてるとか、本編見たことないライターが聞きかじりで書いてるんじゃないかって気がする。

I didn't really follow any of it, but basically Shinji is the Near Third Impact princess, right?

よくわかんなかったんですが、シンジ君はニアサーの姫って事なんですね

It's precisely because Asuka is a good kid at heart that her later breakdown is so painful to watch. How did it come to this.

アスカが根はいい子だからこそ、その後の崩壊っぷりが辛過ぎる どうしてこうなった

Please don't make him sound like the princess of some otaku club (in Sakura's voice)

オタサーの姫みたいに言わんといてください（サクラ風）

"Everyone tried harder than I remembered" — what a great line lol. The Rebuild films only work because of everything the original series built up first.

「みんな記憶以上に頑張り屋さんだった」っていいねw 新劇って旧シリーズで積み重ねたモノありきなんだよね。