#shinij ikari

[madmanjive]

Shinji Ikari is a mysogonistic loser! Now let me ship Asuka with the unproblematic Kensuke Aida, who takes naked pictures of her and other female classmates and sells them for money. What a gigachad hero you got there!

He was young and stupid. Over time he grows up and stop doing things like that. At least he didn't violate asuka or strangle her like shinij did. Yet people still defend him and make excuses for his creepy actions. Kensuke still treated asuka better then shinij ever did. The bitter truth evangelion fans refuse to accept.

[khatharsis42]

Sooooooo, i made a meme

I hope it’s funny lol

[ayanamicaps]

[nueroca]

What if 😖 I was born to meet you 😳 and we were both boys 🥴😚

[4thgradedropout]

shinji

[m-kyunie]

模倣

[animebw]

Episode 20

There is a LOT to unpack in Evangelion episode 20. This is where the production hell truly begins; between the constant use of recycled footage in different contexts and the long, static shots, it’s clear that the gas is leaking out of the tank over at Gainax. But that’s also where the brilliance begins, and the ways Anno and his crew find to utilize their minimal resources over these last several episodes never cease to astound me. There is so much densely layered meaning in Shinji’s primordial soup psychosis that I barely know where to start, but let me just list off a bunch of interesting, fascinating, and otherwise noteworthy things that caught my eye this time around.

-Coming back to this episode after watching Re:Zero, it is shockingly apparent how much Subaru was influenced by Shinji’s repeated mental interrogations. The moments where Subaru is pathetically railing against Emilia and demanding she show him respect for all his supposedly heroic deeds could be taken straight from Shinji begging the people in his life to praise him for piloting the Eva.

-On that same note, it’s very apparent here how deeply Shinji’s self-image has become tied with his Eva piloting. He sees it as the one aspect of him that makes people be nice to him; he can’t imagine anyone liking him for him. And because he ties his identity to this machine he keeps coming back to, he can’t allow himself to imagine a life without it. That’s why his return to pilot the damn thing last episode ultimately isn’t a glorious triumph; it might have been the only option to save everything at the moment, but it also drags Shinji right back into a self-made hell that he had a genuine chance at breaking free from for once.

-Shinji’s first real snap comes when he’s hearing the repeated voices of everyone calling his name, speeding up further and further until he almost self-destructs from the pressure. I think this ties back to the idea of self-image; everyone says his name differently, reflecting the different images they have of him in their head. Shinij, Shinji-kun, ikari-kun, and so on. He is a different person to every single one of them, and it forces him to realize that the self image of the brave, deserving Eva pilot he’s built up for himself is not the only version of him that exists. He does... not take the realization well.

-Overall, Shinji’s negative qualities are much more pronounced here than they’ve ever been. His self-interrogation forces him to discard all the lies he’s been trying to convince himself with and lay bare to the gross reality; he cannot handle people not liking him, because he doesn’t have the self-confidence to survive without their praise. So he clings to it like an entitlement he’s owed for his deeds, lashing out at those he perceives as withholding what he is deserved. Again, much like Subaru will emulate two decades down the line.

-An important extension of that? Shinji’s women problems. There’s a chilling sequence where he pictures the three most important ladies in his life- Asuka, Rei and Misato- all basically offering him sex in the same suggestive, repeated motions, blending them together into the single soup of womanhood he perceives. It’s offered as the easy out, the “becoming one” with the people he feels attracted to. Sex here equals literally fusing into the same person, sharing everything with no walls of ego or soul. But literally becoming someone else is not the same thing as actually knowing them; raw, bestial sex is not the same as pure, emotional connection. If you’ve seen End of Eva, you know this theme comes back in a massive way there.

-On that same topic, once again, it’s Misato who saves him and pulls him back to reality. Not Misato as a sexual object, but Misato as directly paralleled with his mother once more. He swims toward his mother’s voice for salvation, but only after Misato’s face cuts through his mental haze, and her crying over losing him welcomes him back into the world. As always, for all her failures, the kind of connection Misato sees in Shinji is one that he keeps wanting to come back to. Not as an easy out, but as something he wants to be part of.

[bonediggercharleston]

Current members (spoilers):

- Griffith, Berserk

- Ryo, every iteration of Devilman

- Shinji Ikari and Kaworu Nagisa, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Repair (not to be confused with RoE 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, where Shinij  accidentally causes the end of the world for heterosexual, Rei-saving purposes)

- Father Garai, MW

- I am awfully illiterate in western popculture, somebody help me here

catra can now enter the "I accidentally caused the apocalypse because I'm gay" club

[mangohcake]

piano boyfriends for valentines i guess

[lord-catnagga]

2k15 stop Shinji Ikari shaming

[cherrichechan]

We already have 2015!  Brace yourself!

[my-sweet-hobby-blog]

[valentinaocchiblu]

Neo Tokyo 3 Defender!

"Uuuuh!! This one would be great as T-shirt!!  I can see Neo Tokyo 3 silhouette  *___*

So I'll vote it on Qweerte to see it printed ù__ù"

(sorry XD please vote my tshirt design XD)

[ayanamicaps]

[rlynnclifford]

So I finished Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The original anime, at least. I still have to watch End of Evangelion. In regards to the anime, it was fantastic and I don't regret a single thing about letting it take over a whole week as I went to class, home, and then binge-watched. The characters were very human, and the psychology woven into the plot lines made me think- not just about the existence of the characters in their universe, but of my own existence and what it means as well. I relate to Shinji on many levels, and have the same hurdles to jump over in my quest to finding my self and my happiness. Well...almost. I don't pilot a giant bio-mechanical being. But still. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it yet.

[becauseifeelblind]