@@kaijucifer3544 If you are completely unaware of context, yes. But if someone walked up to you and said they "like" you using suki, then it would be pretty clear what they meant - that they love you. In any case, if you translate it as "I like you.", might aswell translate it as "You're a swell guy." It just completely changes the intended information delivered in that line. And a translator's job is not to be "technically correct", it is to carry over the original intention. And "I like you." just doesn't cut it in this case.
-Father, why do you keep hanging out with Rei and calling her Yui? -Oh, no, I said Yurei, that's what I call her. -You call her Yurei despite the fact her name is Rei Ayanami? -Yes. It's a regional dialect. -Oh really? From where? -Uh, Tokyo 3. -Really? Well, I study in Tokyo 3 and everyone at school calls her Rei. -Oh, not in sea-level Tokyo 3, it's a GeoFront expression. -I see.
It’s actually incredibly stupid flawed forced writing in Evangelion as much as I like the show NERV which has trillions to construct a massive city/technological utopia under hundreds of meters of earth just happens to not have any way to keep their valuable assets and pilots educated and employed down in NERV central, so they just let them wander back to the surface to return to their normal lives despite the fact that an Angel could destroy them at any time. This was obviously forced to make the characters more relatable to us surface dwelling school/worker bees, as we wouldn’t give a shit about a small group of military property that lived their lives under ground.
The fact that so many of y'all weebs are mad over this one comment about some dumb animes that won't effect your lives is amazing. I see why people look down on y'all. Go get some lives instead of watching some Japanese cartoon girl be a fan-service character all day and then getting upset because I don't feel the same way about your favorite show. Only thing is that Gundam is better than Evangelion. No cap, all fax. 💯🗿
@_ scüp I can't have a fucking opinion without people getting mad and insulting me? You a true snowflake. And stop using the N word like this is Xbox live or something.
1, 2, Oatmeal Kirby is a pi-ink guy 1, 2, Oatmeal Because kirby's very cu-u-ute [Repeat verse 1] Kirby inhales his enemies and makes it la-a-a-a-a-ater, Kirby is so happy thats something he can because he's such a pi-ink guy [Repeat verse 2] Here comes Kirby to Meta Knight to protect Because he is attacked by king dedede Meta Knight swings his sword of King dedede defeat What a triumph is thaaat?
This got me to start watching Evangelion. It's everything I was promised. A relatable show about kids facing real life problems and swarming with magic robots. Thanks for spoiling the ending for me.
Just wait til your realize that they aren't robots, they are enslaved monsters. And then realized that the monsters are angels sent to end humanity. So the teenagers are literally fighting God. It turns all out about as well as you'd expect.
@@maxwelljames3573 I feel like at this point, cartoon shows inspired by Groening & MacFarlane will just continue airing new episodes until they seamlessly transition into Futurama prequels, set in (future) "present" day, 2999.
Ironically, despite its current reputation, Evangelion WAS pitched as a Family program in Japan, in a family timeslot and everything. Its after the Leliel (Giant Orb angel) where everything gets even more depressing and off the wall that even Tv distributors were shocked by how violent it got, as at the time, most anime was seen as merchancidzing oppourtunities for children, and adult fare was limited to OVAS. Children in japan still enjoy the series regardless to this day however, including the Rebuild films.
'Anno-san, you told us this was a kids show. The pet penguin made us think this was the case however it doesn't seem that way. There's some, erm, heavy shit in this thing...' 'Kids shouldn't be shielded from such things' 'Anno-san, your show contains a murder suicide involving a toddler. And Unit 4...fucking hell Unit 4...'
Well to be fair, in the 20th century this was kind of normal, the thing is people didn't care that much because they just "watched shows" and more to the point most of the times cartoons were meant for children, it was basically until the 90s were cartoons started to open up themselves to adult audiences like for instance The Simpons is a good example of this. Actually in the 90s is exactly when things started to change due to this kind of cartoons or even videogames like Mortal Kombat were parents and associations started to notice that this content needed to be rated because they weren't created exclusively for children anymore. But damn, I still remember how movies that were rated for adult audiences such as Robocop or Terminator still were marketed for children by selling action figures on x-mas and somehow children managed to watch those movies lol, standards were so different back in the day, well actually there were no standars per se.
Bart: Hideaki Anno, you made some of the best giant mechas in all of anime! Anno: oh, really? So you like how I took your favorite mechas and turned them into spirit-infused clones of a pregenator alien god that weren't mechas? Bart: nah, I just like it when they punch the giant monsters. How did you get Asuka's suit to stick so close to her body? Anno: ugh.
I like how at first it looks like they’re just saying yes to whatever they’re asked, then when asked to clarify, they confirm that that’s totally what they want.
I've never quite figured out what's hard to understand about writing good fantasy. You make the characters exactly like real people with real flaws, but put them in fantastical locations with imaginative creatures and objects for them to interact with. Fantasy is the realm of hypotheticals and people darn well just want to see their favorite action figures survive and conquer or fail and suffer depending on how well they handle what they encounter.
Exactly. But you know what pisses me off the most? Is that when the authors make a slip up (which just happens sometimes) and make a character make a weird and unrealistic decision, when we complain about it, there's always a whole bunch of people who say "oh, you're expecting realism in a world of magic and wonders lmao". Yeah fuckface, I do expect characters to make reasonable, realistic decisions in this unrealistic world, because one thing has NOTHING to do with the other.
The reason I love Breaking Bad is that it's the exact opposite. The suburbs of Albuquerque is theoretically a familiar, mundane world, but practically everyone within it is so weird and larger than life that it feels like an acid-fuelled cartoon.
people generally don't know what they want. if your options are endless, you'll either want all of it, or be frozen. but we know when we encounter something we don't like, or hate. we're strange that way. strange but fascinating.
It's funny - this seemed like a joke at the time, but I feel like I've seen a bunch of shows and movies in the decades since that have managed to thread this particular needle. A story can have wild fantasy and sci-fi elements, and still maintain a sense of humanity and empathy for its characters and their goals.
Yeah and they can definitely have a strong sense of realism if they get society and psychology right. Asoiaf/early Game of Thrones is probably the most popular example of that in recent years.
Some ppl would be surprised by how many kids watched Evangelion. I watched it when i was about 6 or 7. It aired on Animax on prime time just like Bleach, HxH, Babel 2, etc. Actually, it looked much more lighthearted back when i was a kid due to my incapability to grasp the meanings of Shinji's existential crisis back then.
It's hilarious how the meaning of the punchline to this, as we interpret it, is the exact opposite of the meaning as it was intended. (Incoming over-explanation) The joke was initially meant to be that kids don't know what they want, as he was describing something impossible and the kids said yes. The joke now is that he seems baffled by the description to what are essentially a lot of really good pieces of media.
Because he posed it as a false dichotomy, there is NO REASON a show can't have both ( or all 3 if you include itchy and scratchy as the classic cartoon element) it's called being multidimensional or well-rounded Really funny and also sad thing is Hollywood STILL struggles to figure this out and has even gone backwards in some ways from where they were in the 90s and 2000s
"I got that, OK, good. Now, if I'm not going to Moe's, let's analyze that: _where the_ ****** _would I go?_ *_I'm in a town in every state and also nowhere!"_*
I see people saying this could apply to this show or that and they're right but really this could be applied to any mecha show post-gundam. This really is applicable to any mecha show to be honest
@@shapeshifting4975 Yes, as in the english progressive rock band you might remember from such songs as "Roundabout", "Close To The Edge and "Owner of a Lonely Heart" ?
"so.... you want a realistic down to earth show that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?" Zankoku na tenshi no you ni Shonen yo, shinwa ni nare...
I wouldn't really say that the Simpsons were really good at predicting, they just saw where the wind was blowing and put two and two together to make four. Along with an incredible amount of coincidences (9/11 magazine cover)
They also did that line about “I’m going to go work on my dream, creating a cartoon about a sassy robot” in the Abe Simpson writes itchy & scratchy episode
Magic realism, or not even that, science ficcion novels a century old (or again...not even that) can be socially realistic in fantastic scenarios, The Simpsons writters are just in perpetual mental putrefaction just like the whole Hollywood.
Same thing happened with BoJack Horseman: "Who wants a funny show about cartoon animals who act like humans?" (I DO! I DO!) "Okay, now who wants a show that deals with difficult real life topics, such as depression, addiction, generational trauma and the toxic culture of Hollywood?" (I DO! I DO!)
Who wants yet another show that's ass-ugly with terrible voice-actors and hardly anything that qualifies as animation.... (I do I do , I'm a fucking drone)
Funny how sometimes the most off-the-wall and fantastical settings and stories can make our minds open enough to take in hard truths about life, morality, internal struggle, society, war, and mortality.
@Just a normal nazgul I see you woke up in the wrong side of the bed this morning. Don't you think that someone who insults random people in RU-vid comments since they have nothing better to do is the one with a pathetic life?
@Just a normal nazgul Dude, are you for real? Go touch some grass. I'll take your advice, I'm not going to waste more of my time in an argument with someone who does (not) have basic manners. As for you, you should check Ebay to see if they have a life in sale, God knows you need it.
conaidering Eva's inspirations, mecha anime is variations of "down to earth characters and problems alongside unrealistic and bombastic action sequences"
"Magic" is the most generic possible fantasy trope. "Robots" are the most generic sci fi trope. The fact that the two got slapped together for the sake of coming up with something that sounds "off the wall" isn't that crazy a coincidence. They have just as easily could have come up with "Explosive Ninjas" and it would have described 20 other anime.
This episode aired in early 1997, about half a year before Evangelion's first English release. So unless one of the writers was a weeb (which hardly existed then) who was also fluent in Japanese, then no, probably not.
Y not both? Don't underestimate human imagination (look at Lovecraft, he hated EVERYONE but his writing undoubtedly enhanced horror fiction as we know it.)
AMG&B everything that happens in gurren lagann is based on rapid evolution and breaking limit, while everything in envangelion is based on biblical watever. which of the two sounds more magic related?
+Ace Knight Premise =/=actual show TTGL is all about size and explosions and doing absurd and ridiculous things while sounding manly and epic. Eva was never about Angels and giant robots fighting them, but about characters and their personal issues and their coping with the world. Anyone who watched both shows knows that. So, depression or mechs who throw galaxies at each other, which is more down to Earth? This is not even a debate
