Hideaki Anno: “hey did you write the OP for my melancholy subversion of mecha anime that’s a metaphor for depression?” Composer: “yeah jazzy 90s jpop inspirational ballad just like you asked” Anno: “wait what” - ThreadSky

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sean8urson.bsky.social • 95 days ago

Hideaki Anno: “hey did you write the OP for my melancholy subversion of mecha anime that’s a metaphor for depression?”

Composer: “yeah jazzy 90s jpop inspirational ballad just like you asked”

Anno: “wait what”

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thenoirgal.bsky.social•95 days ago

Counterpoint: it’s exactly what he wanted to lull them into a false sense of security and he fuckin got em

sean8urson.bsky.social•95 days ago

True!

lycanlanterns.bsky.social•95 days ago

Theres a growing and alarming number of people who would disagree with NGE being a mecha subversion even though they had to have been emotionally whiplashed with Cruel Angel’s Thesis like the rest of us LOL

artofchira.bsky.social•95 days ago

it's exactly what he wanted because this is the same man who decided the ballad to play over the literal apocalypse and end of humanity is a version of 'Hey Jude' singing about how the most moral thing to do is to go kill yourself

so much respect tbh

sean8urson.bsky.social•95 days ago

Hahaha yeah it did its job cuz you’re not supposed to know it’s a subversion but now that we all know it makes it just plain funny

artofchira.bsky.social•95 days ago

so much of Anno's work is pure contemptuous sarcasm, it's aspirational

sean8urson.bsky.social•95 days ago

(I know it’s on purpose that’s what makes it funnier)

angeloslh.bsky.social•95 days ago

Fly me to the moon as the ending song too 🤌🤌🤌

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