#it's now actual Ragnarok and you will literally fight to the death against apocalyptic cultists until there's nobody left | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

voluptuarian · 2 years ago

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Honestly all the conversation about "x or y made me stop watching anime," I've never heard anybody bring up mythological window dressing

Like I will never forget the frustrated anger I felt having watched God Eater with friends, seeing all the mythological connections and drawing conclusions based on them, and quickly realizing it all meant nothing. I was so fucking mad I gave the show up immediately! And it's something I've seen used in a lot of series over the years, and avoided as a result. Other than just not hanging out with as many people watching anime, and just being much older than most show's intended audiences, it's probably the biggest factor contributing to my drop in interest in anime.

Interestingly Evangelion is completely admittedly a very successful use of mythology window dressing but somehow the plot and events are so big-picture and nuts that it works anyway??

#and not to bring up drakengard #esp since it's not even an anime #but you can totally pull a few elements and concepts from mythology without getting that in depth & still do something incredible with them #that game's like we're giving you basically no explanations for anything but grigori are real and have decided to cleanse/destroy your worl #the only way it hasn't happened before is because living people have been used as the fucking seals from Revelations #it's now actual Ragnarok and you will literally fight to the death against apocalyptic cultists until there's nobody left #also these angels are for real giant babies because *insert cherubim joke*#best case scenario they kill you all and reseed the earth in their own image #worst case they kill you all and reseed the world with abominations grown out of your dead sister's dna #where is god in all this?? wouldn't you like to know-- or maybe not 😉#and then to pad out the rest of the plot??#they made make every character the worst possible inversion of an intimate relationship dynamic #= fucking genius idk

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