Misato has ice, snacks and 50 GALLONS OF BEER in her fridge lmao. Mood. Her car is wrecked and there’s a monster that might kill her and all she can think about is car payment loans lol. She’s just like me fr. Well, except for the groomer vibes she’s giving off.
I’m sure it’s gonna get depressing very soon, I hear all the characters suck and half of them are sexpests. Seems like you get a pretty decent understanding of why they suck though. I already dislike Shinji though, dude get in the fucking robot the world is ending. I guess sucking is hereditary, because his dad sucks too, fucking dumbass. Dude if your son is “the chosen one” when it comes to piloting these things and you’re all “I must sacrifice everything for the mission” then sacrifice some free time to be with your son so your top pilot is less psychologically messed up.
NERV is in dire need of a psych team though, insane that there isn’t a dedicated therapist to help the pilots deal with trauma.
Also it’s so beautiful! I miss old anime like this and Akira, everything just gets to breathe. It’s so pretty every frame is a painting. The women have noses and they look like women, which is also impressive. Sadly there’s still only one body type women can have, but at least they can look humanoid.
Anyway, bit idea: Guy who only watches Evangelion for the fights.
Edit: Okay so Shinji managed to make two friends and they get sent away. The dude needs a support network, how incompetent can his dad be? “Huh my best pilot is getting some friends? Can’t have that, we need him to be as mentally unstable as possible!”
Dude needs to be fired.
Double edit: Now on an episode where an EVA goes berserk and tries to attack the dad and he just stands there looking at it and then when it breaks thru to him he’s shocked. The guy is absolutely not beating “himbo, but not actually hot, just dumb” allegations
Honestly I think the “groomer” allegations with Misato are way overstated by people.
She has a difficult relationship with…well relationships and sexuality and this leaks out a few times, but when I watched the show I pretty much got to almost the end not really getting why it was such a meme.
I mean in some ways they are all being groomed by being manipulated and pressured into being child soldiers, but you know what I mean…I don’t think Misato has any actual attraction to Shinji like that.
Sorry, didn’t see you wrote this as a chain!
Yeah I don’t think she’s attracted to him, I think she’s aware he’s attracted to her and she uses this to control him. It’s a tool she has available that she uses to mold him into the person she needs him to be.
That’s still grooming.
She does this because she’s also in an insane militaristic environment that demands too much of her, but she still does it.
I mean episode 1 starts with Shinji looking at a lewd photo of her with a lipstick kiss on it, which she sent him. She flirts with him thru the first episode and makes several sexual comments in general.
She’s young and seems like she’s complicated, but she is also giving groomer vibes
I think the show purposefully skirts the line between “hot babysitter” and “mother figure” if that makes sense, but I think the first has more emphasis placed on it by people when I think through more of the show she is the latter.
I’m getting “big sister who has to take care of her sibling after their parents died” vibes more than mother vibes, but otherwise yeah. She’s being less and less weird with him, which is nice