EVA is a "phenomenon". There are only three animations in Japan that can be called phenomenon-level: "Space Battleship Yamato", "Mobile Suit Gundam" and (in time) the nearest "Neon Genesis Evangelion". More than a decade after its release, EVA, which has been constantly analyzed and talked about by people, can no longer be said to be a simple TV animation. As the so-called "A Dream of Red Mansions", Taoists see lewdness, and scholars see Yi. Talents see lingering, revolutionaries see fullness", EVA shows its all-round charm, from characters to plots, from social ethics to religious morals, almost everyone can see what they are interested in from inside-this is The main reason for its longevity.
"Is there anything to analyze, you group of self-righteous OTAKU, wake me up!"
There is only one person who will say this, Anno Hideaki. In the eyes of the majority of animation fans, this is an existence with a strong dual personality. He is the leader and he is also a ruffian.
Anno Hideaki's various remarks are often very puzzling. For example, when he said, "Seeing EVA obsessed with EVA, and deconstructing EVA are all vulgar and unknowing OTAKU", he almost shouted "Awakening morality"-the problem is, His old man is an out-and-out serious otaku... Anno
led Gainax to create the mythical EVA with one hand. He seemed to accept worship and make money while not forgetting to attack his fans. From the second half of the EVA, it is not difficult to see how the ruffians hate the otakus, and they can’t wait to grab them and slap them twice, and then yell, "Wake me up! Come back to reality!"
Ikura Shinji has been the top actor on the charts of major animated characters for a long time after it was released. His weakness, his autism, and his escape have made many viewers watching this animation (of course, not necessarily all of them). otaku) had the same sense of substitution-"What... Isn't this just talking about me..."-roughly this feeling. Speaking of Japanese otaku, it is also clearly shown in "Denche Man" that this is a very special group. It seems to be instinctively talented in certain things (such as anime, games, movies, etc.), but because For a long time "squatting at home" and known as "otaku", most of them are not open minded and are afraid of too much contact with the outside world. Such a group is delighted to see the appearance of a representative character suddenly appeared in the animation that used to be the image of Gao Daquan. In addition, the so-called connotation of EVA itself can make people study for a long time, so EVA attracts the most. The otaku is also no doubt.
Pizi Anye must have collapsed at the end of the EVA TV version. The lack of funds and the high expectations of the fans almost overwhelmed him, so EVA looks like the end of a prank. Rather, it has been arranged long ago. Rather, it was an "retaliation" by Hideaki Anno against the otaku audience. He kept saying that this ending is to pull the otaku who are addicted to the second dimension out of the small circle and let them return to reality. But in fact, everyone can see that he is hostile to the audience on the EVA. As a rare animation supervisor who has froze with the fans (the audience will think that this person is qualified to teach us), Anye does not He politely expresses his emotion of "looking down on these otaku", which is actually a very strange psychology-"I am otaku, but I look down on otaku the most", more or less a source of inferiority, think about "Denche Man".
In fact, it is not without previous convictions. Gainax, who has just entered the commercial animation market, has ambitiously and extremely hard to produce "Wang Li Universe Army", and it turned out to be a box office poison. How can they dare not believe that such a work carrying extremely high dreams is actually It would fail, so I made "Flying Over the Peak" with the idea of "I want to see half-naked beautiful girls and huge robots, right?" Gainax began to lose its mind and became the representative of the industry's most chaotic cards. And to a certain extent, it affirmed Anye's view that the so-called animation audience is really vulgar, which further led to the later EVA confrontation.
In the same year that EVA was released, an even bigger incident occurred in Japan, the sarin gas incident in the Tokyo subway.
Looking back on this now, it is quite coincidental. Aum Shinrikyo and EVA are not incomparable. As the leader of Shoko Asahara, his psychological dark side is infinitely magnified and transmitted to the believers. The so-called doomsday complex has led to the abhorrence and self-enclosure of the believers of Aum Shinrikyo. This is also reflected in the EVA, that is, "The world is doomed to perish" and "Completing the plan", but the purpose of this is different from the cult (the same can be obtained). In the end, it hopes to go from "autism" to "self-awareness" and rediscover it. A process of the id.
The incident in 1995 had a great impact on Japanese society (Haruki Murakami even conducted a series of independent interviews). There is a phenomenon that is shocking-after the incident, a large number of Japanese people did not feel the news. Continue your own life as it doesn't matter to yourself. After the Second World War, Japan changed from militarism to democratic politics. The ambitious generation of the post-war generation led to rapid economic development. To put it in a sentence, what we learned in political classes in the city is "the richness of material life, but also the lack of spiritual beliefs. , The spiritual life is empty", yes, the young generation in the 90s, confused, spiritually empty, numb, nothing to do with them has become their tag.
I have always cited the example of Japan, but when it comes to this, I am afraid that people in the country have to speak up. To a large extent, the lack of faith in our generation is even worse than in Japan.
Without faith, it is easy to conflict between uniform values and personal values. In other words, a complete value system is also missing from the cultural system. For example, in EVA, Ikura Shinji, who has no goal, chooses to escape from the apostle first. He didn't know why he fought and for whom he worked hard. This is the same as many people in our reality, with a blank mind—>Confused—>I don’t know what to do—>Mediocre life. If it is more extreme, then it may be like this: emptiness—>Having fun—> Fill—>Join the cult. The young people became numb after hearing the poison gas incident, but they did not realize that many of the believers who were likely to release the poison gas were as empty people of their own age and generation.
Otaku is also mostly young people. The enthusiasm for ACG's two-dimensional world is actually a manifestation of them filling the emptiness. Therefore, the hodgepodge animation of Anno Hideaki, a heavy otaku quotation, used to set the concept. It is not so much confusing. Suspect, it's better to say that this is a good way to relieve one's mental emptiness from other channels, but at this time, it's too uninteresting to still be talking about Pizi'an Ye.
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