The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.


'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'


thaliarchus
@thaliarchus

I am watching some of Evangelion for the first time in eighteen years. I think the problem is that by the time I was sufficiently depressed to enjoy Evangelion, I wasn't young enough to enjoy Evangelion.

I refuse to think about the plot, characters, or themes, because those are epiphenomena and have been talked to death. I don't mean that I find the show superficial. But the plot, characters, and themes form its superficial bits.

To sum up my seat-of-the-pants re-impressions so far: Evangelion does not stand out for its animation; its shot composition is not unique, though strong; but its shot timing ('editing', montage) is exceptional.

Other notes:

  • The show's script is very blunt.
  • I laugh whenever 007 takes the Lektor.
  • Both the amount and the quality of the for-sickos background technology stand beyond criticism.
  • Remember when they dumped the show on Netflix and it got a day's social media attention for the translation of one line and then sank without trace?
  • Hand-drawn Evas look less like tokusatsu than 3DCG models, but far more successfully feel like the intended effect of tokusatsu's guy-in-a-suit than a three dimensional model ever could.

thaliarchus
@thaliarchus

Hand-drawn Evas look less like tokusatsu than 3DCG models, but far more successfully feel like the intended effect of tokusatsu's guy-in-a-suit than a three dimensional model ever could.

To expand slightly on this: a 3DCG model more closely resembles a guy in a suit, but the aim of the guy in the suit in Ultraman (1966) wasn't to look like a guy in a suit.


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