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They knew words carry different connotations in different languages, and changed things up for each countries’ audience.
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Some are a word, like “Magmadiver,” and some are a full sentence, like “She said, ‘Don’t make others suffer for your personal hatred.” That last one’s original Japanese translated to “The Value of Miracles,” so there’s definitely some changes made to the American version. I am a giant fan of those title cards that pop up in the middle of the episodes. Their inner struggles felt much more lived in by the audience. We could feel the characters thinking their way through the scenes. The stillness in Eva allowed us to take in the emotional resonance of the characters processing their situations. It was very Lynchian, in the way that Twin Peaks Season 3 scenes just kept going, but it let your mind wander and consider things. Those scenes were filled with dread, pathos, and thoughtfulness. Prolonged shots of one single frame of animation could have just been about trying to save money, but those long unending shots were embedded with anxiety and existentialism. Instead of a show that focused on fight scenes between robots and monsters, we now had a show that focused on characters fighting with themselves to feel relevant. Other shows would’ve fallen apart under the pressure. Everything was on the line for the characters just like it was for the staff.
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It made the unbelievable elements of kids and robots feel more real than it should. We were seeing a desperate studio trying to finish a show before it died, and we’re watching a society try to save itself from third impact. They put their stress into the show and it really came through. It was an amazing decision by the animators to not try to hide it. Not only was production company studio Gainax running out of money well before the end of the show’s production, the staff wasn’t dealing well with the stress either.
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It’s a Master Class in How to Turn a Train Wreck into an AssetĮvangelion famously had issues behind the scenes. Shinji practically stands in for Anno, and this document of a breakdown turned what could’ve been a better-than-average mecha show into an auteur experience. The whole show may be obtuse or abstract, but you always know what it’s feeling at its root-even when you’re trying to figure out why the villains are named angels, or why exactly 14 year-old children are necessary for piloting the Evas.Īnd this whole time we’re seeing the progression of show creator Hideaki Anno’s nervous breakdown as he plans episodes to cover how Shinji tries to find his value over the course of the series. A life extinguishing event had happened to the world in Evangelion and everyone is trying to overcome their trauma in various ways. And all the kids were born into this damaged world, being raised by the traumatized adults. If you think about it, a second impact happened fifteen years ago and all of the adults remember it? That’s going to be traumatic. We find out all the anxiety built in from the production staff is what’s been inside our main characters.
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Sure, the show is funny-and it can be really funny (in particular I’m remembering a joke involving toothpicks)-but after a certain episode the jokes stop. Technically, it is that kind of show, but it’s also much deeper than the typical mecha anime of Evangelion’s era. The art shows kids in their plug suits, and the trailers show the purple and red robots fighting weird looking monsters. It’s an Auteur Project, Not Just Kids Piloting Robots So, sit back and enjoy this week’s offering: John Bernardy’s five reasons Neon Genesis Evangelion is a classic. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites-whether it’s moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!-in bite-sized articles perfect for your lunch break, a dull commute, or anywhere you need to take a Moment of Zen. “Favorites” takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we’ve got it. Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting.
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