i could go on a whole rant about how Evangelion is actually a perfect encapsulation of the violence between the transition between boyhood and manhood and how women and girls are just expected to Deal With It even as they are torn apart bit by bit because men won’t go to fucking therapy
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it ultimately falls flat in actually criticizing this violence becuase the creators didn’t realize that’s what…
anyway the robots are cool and Asuka should have been main protagonist
the thing with Shinji… and i know a lot of tgirls will get mad at me for saying this… is that he’s just a very typical boy who is being forced by his father to Be a Man and do Man things… the same way he was taught and so on and so forth
both these scenes are about sex and or power. it’s disturbing in how visceral it is
i really wish the writers had realized what they were writing and leaned into how fucking horrific this was, but i think to them it was so Normal that it ends up (to me) getting glossed over.
so at the end of the day you get a situation where
(men being assholes, women doing emotional labor and/or dying)
I honestly think a lot of gundam characters are eggier than Shinji