#eva 02 beast mode

[feral-ferengi]

"B*tch, i didn't train you to slob me"

[best-evangelion-girl]

masterpost of all polls and other posts so far. (this will be updated when newer polls are made)

why are the things called that (a post badly explaining the naming conventions of the different forms of media)

polls

round 1:

1 misato's car vs Kaji's watermelons

2 Eva 08 vs Eva Imaginary

3 9th angel vs Magi-3 Casper

4 Zuriel vs Magi-2 Balthasar

5 Gaghiel vs Magi-1 Melchior

6 Mark.09 vs Leliel

7 Armisael vs berserk Unit 01 (rebuilds)

8 5th Angel vs Unit 00 (NGE)

9 Eva 44A vs Pen Pen

10 12th angel vs 4th angel

11 Eva 03 (NTE) vs 3rd angel

12 Sahaquiel vs Eva 44B

13 Unit 00 (NTE) vs Unit 01 (NGE)

14 Unit 05 vs Adam (NGE)

15 Shamshel vs 6th angel

16 Mark.06 vs berserk Unit 01 (NGE)

17 Mark.04A vs Unit 02 Berserk (EoE)

18 Unit 03 (NGE) vs Bardiel

19 Eva 04 (NTE) vs Failed Evangelion Prototypes

20 AAA Wunder vs 9th Angel

21 Unit 01 (NTE) vs Unit 02 (NGE)

22 Sandalphon vs Mass Production Evas

23 Adams (NTE) vs Seventh Angel

24 Mark.04B vs Kaworu Nagisa

25 11th angel vs Ramiel

26 Arael vs Israfel

27 Mark.04C vs Matarael

28 10th angel vs beast mode eva 02

29 Eva 04 (NGE) vs Sachiel

30 Eva 02 (NTE) vs Berserk Unit 00 (NGE)

31 Eva 13 vs Ireul

32 Eva 4444C vs Lilith

round 2:

1 Misato's car vs Eva Imaginary

2 Magi-3 Casper vs Magi-2 Balthasar

3 Magi-1 Melchior vs Leliel

4 Armisael vs Eva Unit 00 (NGE)

5 Pen Pen vs Twelfth Angel

6 Eva Unit 03 (NTE) vs Sahaquiel

7 Eva Unit 01 (NGE) vs Adam (NGE)

8 Sixth Angel vs Berserk Unit 01 (NGE)

(I fucked up. berserk Unit 02 vs bardiel and failed prototypes vs Wunder should be 9 and 10 but I accidentally skipped them. they're gonna be 15 and 16 this round. thanks for understanding)

9 Eva Unit 02 vs Mass Production Evas

10 Seventh Angel vs Kaworu Nagisa

11 Ramiel vs Arael

12 Matarael vs Eva Unit 02 Beast Mode

13 Sachiel vs Unit 00 Berserk (NGE)

14 Eva 13 vs Lilith

15 Berserk Unit 02 (EoE) vs Bardiel

16 Failed Evangelion Prototypes vs AAA Wunder

(I want the seeding to work correctly, so the winner of poll 15 and the winner of poll 16 will still compete against each other in what will be poll 5 in round 3. and then the winner of poll 5 round 3 will complete against the winner of poll 6 round 3 in poll 3 round 4. I hope that makes sense. basically, the seeding will still be correct. it's just round 2 that slightly off in numbering because I can't edit the polls. just pretend that poll 15 and 16 are actually 9 and 10, and everything else has been moved back by two polls.)

round 3:

1 Misato's Car vs Magi-3 Casper

2 Leliel vs Eva Unit 00 (NGE)

3 Pen Pen vs Sahaquiel

4 Eva Unit 01 vs Berserk Unit 01 (both NGE)

5 Berserk Unit 02 (EoE) vs Failed Evangelion Prototypes

6 Eva Unit 02 (NGE) vs Kaworu Nagisa

7 Ramiel vs Eva Unit 02 Beast Mode (NTE)

8 Sachiel vs Lilith

round 4:

1 Misato's Car vs Leliel

2 Pen Pen vs Berserk Unit 01

3 Berserk Unit 02 vs Kaworu Nagisa

4 Ramiel vs Lilith

round 5 semifinals:

1 Misato's Car vs Pen Pen

2 Berserk Unit 02 vs Ramiel

Final round!:

1 Misato's Car vs Ramiel

[beastyteeth]

i think these scans of my watercolors are as good as they’re gonna get

[artblooger19moon]

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Eva 02 goes berserk known as it’s BEAST MODE !!!

This is from the movie of Evangelion 02 : You Can ( Not ) Advance

[trisshawkeye]

Back in 2009 when I went to Japan for two weeks, the trailer for the second Evangelion Rebuild movie was everywhere, and while I’d never seen anything NGE-related before and wouldn’t for a number of years later, the particularly epic trailer music stuck with me and has been periodically going round my head ever since.

Watching the Rebuild movies for the first time now, having just finished a TV rewatch, is an interesting experience and I am having Thoughts but right now I’m just amusingly happy to be able to put an actual movie scene to that music.

[nojohnny5ive]

Asuka and the Beast!

[whitemagedelta]

nothing ventured//nothing gained

she released its bestial form, and that still wasn’t enough.

[grimreapz]

Coming back into drawing :D I got a boost of inspiration from Evangelion the eva units are beautiful *^*

[unknown-eva]

[best-evangelion-girl]

all the characters in the best non human evangelion character competition so far:

angels from neon genesis evangelion:

Adam

Lilith

Sachiel (3rd angel)

Shamshel (4th angel)

Ramiel (5th angel)

Gaghiel (6th angel)

Israfel (7th angel)

Sandalphon (8th angel)

Matarael (9th angel)

Sahaquiel (10th angel)

Ireul (11th angel)

Leliel (12th angel)

Bardiel (13th angel)

Zeruel (14th angel)

Arael (15th angel)

Armisael (16th angel)

Kaworu Nagisa (technically not human, so he counts)

angels from the rebuilds that aren't just repeats of angels from nge:

unnamed third angel (giant scorpion dinosaur thing that Mari fights at the beginning of 2.0)

unnamed seventh angel (bipedal clock thing from 2.0)

unnamed eighth angel (rainbow winged thing from 2.0)

unnamed twelfth angel (freaky shape shifting thing sealed inside mark.06 in 3.0)

angels from other pieces of eva media:

insubstantial angel (from neon genesis evangelion: second impression video game for sega saturn)

diemay angel (fan made angel designed by Satou "Diemay" Daimei, a winner of a contest to have an original angel design be illustrated by Yoh Yoshinari)

shateiel and turel (conceptual angels from the neon genesis evangelion proposal)

iblis and barachiel (angels created for the game Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG: The NERV White Paper)

adovaquiel, azrael, atalibu, and zefon (angels created for another game, Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG: Decisive Battle in Tokyo-3)

non angel characters (robots and computers and more):

eva unit 00 (piloted by Rei) (technically also unit 00', when it changes to blue armor when it's repaired after remiels attack) [let me know if 00 and 00' should be separate characters]

eva unit 01 (piloted by Shinji)

eva unit 02 (piloted by Asuka)

eva unit 03 (piloted by Toji) (I'm classifying unit 03 as the entity before it's possessed, and bardiel as the corrupted entity)

eva unit 04 (not actually ever seen in nge, but was in some promotional material, and mentioned by name only in the anime)

mass production evas (eoe)

Evangelion Proto Type-00, Evangelion Test Type-01, Evangelion Production Model-02, Evangelion Production Model-03 (rebuilds) (basically the same, just with longer names and ever so slightly different designs)

Evangelion Provisional Unit-05 (piloted by Mari in 2.0)

Evangelion Production Model Custom Type-08 (piloted by Mari in 3.0) (there's also the upgraded versions in 3.0+1.0, the one at the beginning of the movie with the big ass gun attachments is apparently called Type-08beta, and the version seen at the climax that can fuse with other evas is apparently called Type-08gamma. I'm debating whether I should consider these different characters.)

Evangelion Mark.06 (piloted by Kaworu in 2.0, and seen fused to lilith in 3.0)

Evangelion Mark.09 (piloted by the Rei clone in 3.0)

Evangelion 13 (piloted by both Shinji and Kaworu in 3.0)

Unit 01 berserk mode (multiple episodes)

Unit 00 berserk mode (episodes 5 and 14)

Unit 02 beast mode (from the rebuilds. technically different from berserk, as the pilot is still in control)

Magi-1: Melchior

Magi-2: Balthasar

Magi-3: Casper

Pen Pen

send me asks and let me know what other characters I should add. the rules for this competition are pretty dumb and silly. for this competition, a character can be really any object at all, it doesn't necessarily have to be alive. the only real hard rule is that they can't be human. (they can still be part human or take the form of a human. the evas have human souls, and Kaworu appears as a human teenager, but both of those are different enough from actual humans)

I'm still debating if I should include the goofy spin off characters, like just straight up optimus prime from the transformers crossover, or godzilla from an Godzilla /Kamen rider / Evangelion themed ride in universal studios Japan

[literaryeagle]

For my seventy-fifth Evangelion book review, here is Evangelion no Yuru~i Nakama Yurushito desu. (It’s Evangelion’s Soft Companion Yurushito.), published by Groundworks. This 96-page paperback is a new book that came out a few weeks ago! It commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Evangelion Store’s mascot and product line known as “Yurushito” (Soft Angel, or Weak Angel). The Yurushito product line features cutesy renditions of the Angels (especially Sachiel), and sometimes other Eva-related stuff as well, such as Evangelion Unit-02 in Beast Mode, the Mass Production Evangelions, Jet Alone, and some of the Seele monoliths. Oh, and in case you’re wondering if Kaworu is included since he’s an Angel, unfortunately there is no cutesy version of Kaworu in this book. I guess it’s because Kaworu is already cute and appears in so many other product lines.

This book is not available in English or French, but there are plenty of full color pictures... and they’re adorable! The dust jacket is also removable, and the alternate cover art hidden underneath is a charming pattern featuring the Yurushito characters, printed all in green (a full color version of the pattern can be found inside the book, near the end). The Evangelion Store also has a limited edition release of this book that includes an acrylic stand, however I didn’t get the limited edition because I don’t have enough room for collecting acrylic stands, heh. Anyway, would you like to see some of the cuteness that can be found in this book? Keep reading for the rest of the book review, plus a few more pictures!

The book starts with a charming intro that shows the Yurushito characters gathering for a group photo, and after that is the Table of Contents. Then the next section is “Yurushito no Nakamatachi” (Yurushito’s Circle of Friends), which has brief profiles for the characters. Here is one of the pages, which shows Zeruel, Sahaquiel, and two Angels from the Evangelion New Theatrical Edition (AKA “Rebuild”):

The Angels look so cute in that art style! By the way, as you might have noticed from the book’s cover and what I’ve talked about so far, this book uses a mixture of characters from the original Evangelion TV series and the New Theatrical Edition. This section of the book tends to use their New Theatrical Edition designations when applicable. For example, in the TV series Zeruel was the 14th Angel, but in the New Theatrical Edition they were the 10th Angel and their name wasn’t mentioned, so in the above image you can see that they’re called “10th” instead of “Zeruel”.

However, some of the Angels are given amusing nicknames instead of numbers. In the above image, the 3rd Angel (the skeletal one that can levitate) is called “Janpu mo dekiru yo”, which means “Can also jump”. As for the 7th Angel (the one that looks like a drinky bird), their nickname is “Igaito taoremasen”, which means “Surprisingly doesn’t fall over”!

Moving on, the next part of the book is devoted to 4-frame comics about the four seasons. For example, one of the winter comics is called “Guruguru” (Wrapping Around), and it shows the Yurushito characters sharing one very, VERY long scarf. I found these comic strips to be mostly cute rather than funny, but that’s not a bad thing. The comics are very soothing and wholesome!

After the comics, there is a memories album featuring photos of Sachiel... more specifically, they’re photos of someone in a Sachiel costume, or sometimes photos of a Sachiel plushie. These photos show Sachiel doing various activities such as attending Evangelion Store events, posing in front of landmarks, and frolicking in nature. Check out this photo of Sachiel posing with a huge Evangelion Unit-01 located in Kyoto:

The next section is about a trip through all 47 prefectures of Japan. It’s full of art depicting Yurushito characters enjoying something famous about each place they visit. For example, the illustration for Kyoto shows Sachiel dressed as a maiko (apprentice geisha), and the image for Chiba shows Sachiel as a peanut. Very cute!

After that is an artwork section full of delightful promotional art, including collaborations. Here’s a piece from one of the pages:

In the scan shown above, the picture at the top is for a Godzilla vs. Yurushito collaboration. It shows the Yurushito characters fighting Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah! As for the picture below that, it shows Rei Ayanami with a Yurushito Sachiel plushie. I love it!

The section after that is “Kyou no Yurushito” (Today’s Yurushito), and it collects some of the Yurushito posts that have been made on Twitter over the years. The pics in this section show the Yurushito characters having all kinds of fun such as eating noodles, and dressing up for Halloween. There’s even a picture of Ramiel, Shamshel, and Sachiel going to the movie theater to see Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time...

Next is a goods archive, which shows photos of various Yurushito merchandise. So many cute things! I wish I had enough room to collect all of them! So far the only Yurushito merchandise I have (besides this book, obviously) is a paperweight of Sachiel posing like Auguste Rodin’s sculpture Le Penseur (The Thinker). Here’s a piece from one of the pages, which includes a photo of the paperweight I’m talking about:

By the way, in the scan shown above, you can see a plushie that looks like a yellow fish, with Sachiel in the fish’s mouth. That fish is actually a shachihoko, a creature from Japanese folklore that is part tiger and part carp. Pretty cool, huh?

The book comes to an end with a cute epilogue called “Mata ne” (See you later), and a couple of appendix pages that you can use to make pochibukuro (a small, decorated envelope for giving New Year’s gifts).

Overall, Evangelion no Yuru~i Nakama Yurushito desu. is a delightful book, full of adorable illustrations. My only complaint is that a number of the pages had multiple pictures crammed together, so the pics had to be very small on those pages. But other than that, I really enjoyed it. If you’re an Evangelion fan who likes cute things, it’s worth checking out! Just keep in mind that the book is focused on the Angels (especially Sachiel), so if you’d rather get a book featuring the Lilin characters or the Evas, you might want to skip this book and go for something else.

Anyway, if this book looks interesting to you, please support the artists by purchasing it if you can! Check if your favorite source for buying Japanese books has it, and if not then ask them if they can order it for you. ^_^

Well, that’s it for my seventy-fifth Evangelion book review. I have plenty more Evangelion books to discuss, so keep checking my blog for new reviews!

[beastyteeth]

Beast Mode Eva 02 pencil & watercolor (i'll get a good scan when it's 100% dry!)

[goji-pilled]

I definitely do have criticisms of how Mari was handled in 3.0+1.0 but it's mostly just her character fell flat whenever she was centered around Shinji, but when she was focused on anyone else she was good. To be fair that's because the writers make everything about Shinji and will warp everything to fit what they need for Shinji to do. I am curious about your thoughts on that?

I've been thinking about how to answer this one for a bit now, since usually me talking about Mari's character is something I try to put into a single tweet, while this time I got a lot more space. Ultimately my best try is to just go at it though and try to be as coherrent as possible haha

I dont even know where to start really... I suppose the best start is that Eva's characters change. Them and their relationships with eachother change due to the events they go through. In NGE good examples would be Asuka and Ritsuko given how "extreme" the change between the first time they show up compared to the later episodes is. While in the Rebuilds Shinji is a good example of how a character and their relationships change over the four movies. Ultimately all characters go through changes and developement at some point, in some form (especially in 3.0+1.0).

This is where Mari comes into place because she completely, and absolutely, does not bend to any of that, does not fit into what Eva previously was. She's new, she's so diffrent and she was (and I guess still is) basically a complete wildcard. We couldn't predict how she'll act because we had not a single thing to base her on, no previous appearance or roll in the anime, not even the non-canon things like Anima or the bonus manga chapter since they're extremely diffrent to what Rebuild Mari ultimately was.

Where I'm going with this? Well... I don't think she ever acted out of character, or at least I never felt like she did.

Mari is a walking ray of sunshine, to be fully honest. It's the simplest way to say it. An incredibly intelligent ray of sunshine, but still. Mari loves people, loves being with people, she loves living, she keeps pushing forward and decides to live even in the face of traumatic, apocalytic events (Second, Near Third, Third, Fourth, Additional Impacts) and loss of people close to her (Yui and Asuka; funnily enough the Yui thing is kind of... not a parallel but something else with Gendo, or maybe its a parallel lol) and she does make the most of everything even if it's dangerous (See: Beast mode Unit 02 against Zeruel/The Tenth Angel; or even attacking Unit 13).

Mari is... she's the only one who doesn't change in how she interacts with people; in fact she hasn't changed at all since she went to university and between that and 3.0+1.0 is about 30 years.

Still the same walking ray of sunshine as before.

I do understand why it may seem like Mari's character seems... flat or strange with Shinji. Honestly the first time I saw Thrice Upon a Time I was very confused why she was so buddy-buddy with him/cared about him suddenly. Then I thought about it though and it started making sense.

Mari is the type of person to care abt people she doesn't have any real personal/emotional connection with on the basic empathy/human decency level, she only really cares about people she has history with, Asuka is proof of that. With her its a relationship that formed over 14 years, and 3.0+1.0 made it VERY clear that Mari cares about Asuka A LOT, as she is always her main concern, so on. And so, the same goes for Shinji.

Mari used to be friends with his parents, hell she was the one who introduced Gendo and Yui with eachother, and was even there during Shinji's birth.

She's known the guy since he was a baby, and based on Fuyutsuki's photo it's easy to assume that Mari had quite a bit of contact with him up until Yui's death when Gendo sends him away. It's logical that at that point any contact to him she had broke off for years until she finally sees him again 10 years later in Tokyo-03.

BUT. He is also the son of her dead friend, and I think that there definitely and 100% is an emotional thing going on because of that. In fact, I like to imagen that Mari realized that a part of Yui would always exist in Shinji long, long, before Gendo does and it's why she ends up being able to so... freely, almost joking mention the Yui-Rei thing later on.

It would also explain why she ends up helping him in 2.0, why she is so determind to get him and why she's so positive, so nice to him. And I think, that maybe, just maybe, Asuka's words ("That child doesn't need a lover, he needs a mother.") may not just have been foreshadowing of sort to Misato, but also may had have something to do with her later on keeping it up and being more... idk fierce? Persisstend? Either of those in how determind she is in finding Shinji.

And most of all, I think there is also a diffrence in how she cares about Asuka and Shinji, the only one's she has an emotional connection to. She fiercly cares about both of them, but with Asuka it's... it feels more fleshed out compared to how she is with Shinji, which could be the writing, but I think it's not bad. It highlights the one-sided, and in brackets made bond she has with Shinji (until the end-end) vs. the deep, 14 year long bond she has with Asuka (Besides she never looked at Shinji the way she looked at Asuka LMAO gay ass /lh)

Most of the weirdness I got from Mari and Shinji's relationship mostly comes from the fact that Shinji, has no emotional connection to Mari, while Mari does have that. The ending skipped past any establishing of how they bonded as well, which leads to the strangeness and that it almost feels a bit... off. Or that people see it as a nonsense ship that was shoved in there at the last minute.

I ended up thinking of it as friends at the beginning, and later on the more I thought about it as a sort of.... older/younger sibling thing, or something similiar. Honestly found-family is probably the best way to say it lol (But I do get why ppl saw it as romantic, it's all up to interpretation me thinks🤷‍♂️) But now this kinda took a wrong turn bc rambling abt the ending is a diffrent topic lmao

In the end what I can say is: I think the Mari/Shinji thing feels off at first, but makes sense once you dig into things (and I did a lot of digging in regards to Mari lol)

Only thing I actually hated is the "Nice girl with big boobs" thing, but I simply tell myself thats there because Mari is trans and happy her transition is going well to soothe the severe headache that sentence gives me rip

[oliviersilven]

Eva 02 Beast mode

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