The first contact with EVA was in 1998, because of playing "World Robot War F Ending". From my brother, I learned about Ayanami Rei's Sanwu, and it feels cool and beautiful. So I started to like it. Learn that Shinji is cowardly.
After that, I read some comics sporadically, and borrowed them from female classmates in the class. He said he liked Ayanori, but he didn't know her well. Looking at it carefully, I don't seem to like it. It's just that when I play "F" and "F Ending", I will bring the zero machine. I would like to set myself a girlfriend like Ayanori, who is absolutely loyal and obedient, not afraid of sacrifice, perseverance, courage, white and beautiful.
Among the students around, girls like Shinji, Nagisa Kaoru, and Katsuragi; boys hate Shinji and like Ayanami, Asuka, Katsuragi...
Then, "2000 Skyhawk Warriors" exploded. The opening song is Lightning Strike, and the plot is cut in a mess... After all, everyone who has seen it now understands that EVA is not a story about a hot-blooded teenager fighting monsters or aliens. Certainly not for children.
I don't know which year it started, I saw the source of the film again on the Internet, and then I finished all the animations and theatrical versions one after another. Including today, even the four new theatrical versions have been completed. And by watching a lot of analysis videos of UP masters such as "5 poisonous men" on station B, I can understand the world view of EVA, and understand the various difficulties that Hideaki Anno encountered in the production of this journey. , and the popularity of this EVA today due to various subjective and objective factors.
The popularity of EVA is inseparable from the times. environment at the time. The new theatrical version is regarded as a parallel world of the old version. In terms of achievements, the old version is unmatched, and the new version is definitely eating the old version of the old version. People who haven't watched the old version may not want to watch EVA, and they may not necessarily watch the new version.
If Shakespeare made every sentence very clear, no one would study him in the future. EVA is probably the same.
Almost all characters are flawed. On the contrary, the protagonists of Wei Guangzheng in the past, especially the male pig, are downright anti-heroes.
Regarding Shinji, in fact, people have different views at different times. For example, in the story of "Dragon Ball", the so-called "everyone is Yamucha", it seems that in EVA, "everyone is Ikari Shinji"? At the beginning, for example, in junior high school, I despised Ikari Shinji, thinking he was a waste, stupid, and mourning; but when he was confused and helpless, the feeling of helplessness in Shinji would reflect on people, facing the hardships of life. , I wanted to escape, resist, and get help. At this time, I began to realize that "Shinji is like me", so they began to identify with Shinji; when I finally became an adult, my heart became stronger, and I would not run away in the face of hardships, and I felt again. , Shinji is still the same Shinji, still the stupid, abandoned, mourned Shinji, and he doesn't care much about him again...
Just like in "The End", Asuka said, "What he needs is not a girlfriend, but a mother." Shinji never loves anyone, no matter Ayanami, Asuka, or Katsuragi, he only loves himself. He just needs someone to support and comfort him.
Many people will also encounter such a stage, so during that period, there will be emotional resonance, right?
This view, in fact, reflects the growth of people. From young and frivolous, to melancholy and procrastination, to growing up. It's just that the audience is growing up, and Shinji won't (before "The End"). After all, movies and cartoons are done, and they won't change on their own. When people are conceited and arrogant, Shinji is cowardly and timid; when people are hesitant and depressed, Shinji is cowardly and timid; when people are rational and calm, Shinji is cowardly and timid...
The old version of the story makes people think that it must be fully clarified, what are you talking about, the new version seems to be less motivated, it is best to understand it, it doesn’t matter if it is unclear, it is just a cartoon. After all, "the children in the painting will grow up, and it may be possible to understand the poems in the middle of the mountain early." Even Anno Hideaki has grown up in these years under the care of his wife.
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