This character was not realistic...

This character was not realistic. A sad 14 year old gifted power and around hot chicks would embrace the situation not cry about it. did the writers of NGE do any research at all?

Deconstructions are pretentious shit. Only Madoka got it right.

You don't have to pretend to be retarded to get people talking about Eva. It's Eva.

every person is the same and will react the same to anything that happens to them

stop making 3+ eva threads a day
find something else to care about

A sad 14 year old gifted power and around hot chicks would embrace the situation not cry about it.

No they wouldn't shinji hasent even hit puberty yet.

Samurai Flamenco was fun but no one watched it

Feeling your arm snap tends to sober you up real quick.

Good thing Eva isn't a deconstruction.

there are zero 14 year olds who would act like shinji did.

For how unsuited to soldiering he was and how essential it was he do it anyway, it's unrealistic he wasn't fed meth.

Anon not everyone in Japan is a socially intelligent macho horndog, and especially a kid who's 14 years of age and who hasn't even gone through full puberty yet.
That's because you don't know any 14 year olds personally and think everyone is like you. I kid you not lil nigga, once you feel the pain of getting hit in the chest by an energetic laser beam, stabbed in the abdomen by laser tentacles, or the pain of your arm breaking/being blasted off, you'd turn into a pussy and humble yourself real quick. Even well adjusted kids like Toji and Kensuke were terrified once they saw Shinji in the control plug fighting Shamshel.

they saw that a lot of young teenage boys are demoralized faggots, so they made one in order to appeal to them. they succeeded at the expense of creating an abominable main character in a cast of already unbearable characters

it is a deconstruction of oldschool mechashit like Mazinger Z, Tetsujin-28 and Getter Robo but no one here would know that because western weebs never bother to watch anything older than Dragon Ball

Shinji was obviously gay

I hope Anno gives up on making pretentious high brow anime and shift his career exclusively to tokusatsu

Not to worry!
Captain Tokyo is teaching him how to face his problems head-on!

Evangelion

high brow

The same series that aggressively flaunts Misato, Rei, Asuka, and Ritsuko's sex appeal in an almost cynical way is "high-brow"? The very same franchise that exploits its characters by placing them on shower curtains and pachinko machines is "high-brow"?

I think pretentious and high-brow are terms used to dismiss something you don't quite understand but can't refrain from insulting.

they're demoralized ebcause they don't have power or women. give them a mecha and have Misato around and they would be over the moon

Ryoma Nagare is the father figure he needed

something else to care about

Such as ?

muh realism!

he's a depressed Japanese teen boy, his pathetic behaviour is perfectly reasonable in this scenario.
If he was white or brazillian or something, yeah, he'd be swimming in poon and happy as a pig in shit lmao.

Feeding drugs to kids on screen would be too much for TV Tokyo who was airing Eva.

How are you so confident that a Brazilian or white kid wouldn't have the same parental and depression issues as a Japanese one ?

less onions in his diet, and much bigger penises.

Why is Asuka staring at him like that.

Eva is akshually a deconstruction. Shinji deconstructs the modern (then) 1990s Japanese male (and it has only gotten worse since then ergo birthrates)

Eva isn't a deconstruction.

if a white kid related to shinji in 1995 they were a subhuman loser, lowest of the low and shunned from birth. meanwhile in Japan, kids everywhere saw Shinji and said THAT IS LITERALLY ME! Not to mention the adults vicariously living through him that then threw a melty when he doesn't fuck asuka or rei in a happy ending.