Why are they taken care of by an alcoholic mentally ill womanchild in a tiny asian apartment room instead of professional psychologists and behavioral experts in a special facility?
Why are they taken care of by an alcoholic mentally ill womanchild in a tiny asian apartment room instead of...
a) Trauma and internal confusion seemingly fuels their power inside an EVA unit, evidenced by the fact only people in puberty can even pilot
b) Gendo, on some level, probably desperately wanted Shinji to not be a fag, and thought having an irresponsible hebephile roastie, and a foreign tsundere around, would help
c) He needed whoever was the caretaker to be close enough to NERV to understand Shinji's situation, and don't go all Onizuka Eikichi completely disregarding the mission and the safety of the world to preserve the kid's mental health. No one on NERV was well-balanced mentally, the one closest to being normal was the ball-less metalhead
d) I don't think the Japanese, at least the ones from the time Anno grew up, believed all that much in mental health for kids, so it would obviously not be such a present theme in his work
e) High-functioning alcoholics like Misato are seen in wapanese society as being so well adjusted and responsible that they can do their job despite getting blackout drunk all the time. Japanese work culture thrives on bar gatherings, you can't get a promotion if you don't regularly outdrink everyone in your department and still keep a decent conversation with your boss.
f) Gendo seriously didn't care all that much about the children besides Rei, his plans were to fuck everything up all along anyway
g) At least they didn't leave Shinji with Fuyutsuki, or worse, Ritsuko... Ritsuko would've hatefucked him so much he'd regain half his weight everytime the cockpit filled with LCL, just from rehydration. All in all, the only adult in the show more suitable than Misato to take care of him was Kaji, who was the enemy.
Every psychiatrist died in second impact
japan
believing in psychiatrists or psychology
Why is this twink faggot wearing the same bra as the girl next to him?
It's more like those dance sleeveless shirts women use under larger shirts in dance studios. They were practicing dance moves to synchronize better in the upcoming fight against twin giant aliens that needed to be defeated at the exact same time or they'd regen infinitely.
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The writers didn't think so. They made an art book of like his intercepted spy transmissions and their take is he was screaming internally about not having real guidance for anybody.
The original version of Both of You dance like you want to win was even more over the top with that
Why did Misato choose womens attires for them instead of something more gender neutral?
screaming internally about not having real guidance for anybody.
That's father material right there, anyone too sure of how to raise a kid usually does it monumentally wrong.
Because she's a pervert.
c) He needed whoever was the caretaker to be close enough to NERV to understand Shinji's situation, and don't go all Onizuka Eikichi completely disregarding the mission and the safety of the world to preserve the kid's mental health. No one on NERV was well-balanced mentally, the one closest to being normal was the ball-less metalhead
You'd still want the most predictable mental condition out of them though. Psychological evaluations are really important for special ops units in the military and intelligence and such.
the premise is based on wish fulfillment
Sure, but incapable people get improper jobs all the time. I think NERV was just that short-staffed considering Gendo probably kept funneling cash into his side-plans
They need broken children in order to power the god-machines so they can break down the barriers of the soul.
This is all explained in the series.
Expecting people to understand lore
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contrived """lore""" conveniently set up to justify moeshit
Eva in a nutshell.
Because nothing makes sense in this series. Anno is a total pretentious hack.
Isn't it really unrealistic how short staffed NERV is? The control panel is made of like 5 people. Misato makes absolutely all the decisions instead of dozens of generals like in a normal military operation while Ritsuko reprogrammed the entire Magi brain to computer system all by herself in less than 2 hours.
Misato makes absolutely all the decisions instead of dozens of generals like in a normal military operation
like in a normal military operation
They're fighting increasingly incomprehensible monsters in giant """robots""" fused with the souls of the pilots mothers, in battles that on each and every occasion end in either victory or the annihilation species.
They don't need dozens of generals arguing over tactics, they need a snap decision, and neither Gendo nor Futyutsuki have a military mind.
I think more than celerity, it's about secrecy.
The clearance processes NERV employees probably have to go through must be crazy, I wouldn't put it above them to psychologically torture each applicant to the point of breaking them into husks the higher-ups can manipulate. Except that turns against them and makes the hiring process select sociopaths.
SEELE is a very clear critique on old out-of-touch people in positions of power, it makes sense that NERV would be at the same time their creation and their downfall.
Also, memes like nubank kinda proved you can have as much efficiency as a larger organization if you just hire very few people of greater capacity each. I don't think even Anno would have difficulty predicting, in the 90s, the level of bureaucratic retardation corporations would get to today; creating a smaller group of better professionals over a big group of average ones was pretty much what he probably envisioned himself and his friends doing when they founded Gainax.
Because Misato pulled rank and nepotism to keep them.
Gendo thought it was funny
They were a privately funded lab making cyber computers until 2008 and they refounded as Nerv. They're a tech startup, even Misato was hired straight out of college.
Because children still need a mother figure (even if Misato wasn't cut out for it)
you can't replace the child/mother relationship with some impersonal clinical team. Children need unconditional love in order to develop. A professional could never provide that. Of course, Misato proved unable to do that as well but it would make sense for NERV to give them a chance with some sort of surrogate mother.
They did experiments on baby monkeys that demonstrated this too. When frightened, the baby monkey's ran to a soft monkey stuffed animal instead of the machine that provided warmth and food. There is an intangible thing about motherhood that cannot be replicated.
That's why chain of command in the military exists though.
memes like nubank kinda proved you can have as much efficiency as a larger organization if you just hire very few people of greater capacity each
They're a meme for a reason. Modern chip design is done by tens of thousands of designers and the core team is consisted of a couple thousands at least. It's impossible the workings of Magi could be understood by only a few people.
Thats what the operational director does though. Thats literally how it works in the Military. Generals handle major strategic/doctrinal stuff and the Majors-Colonel do the on the ground stuff
They're a meme for a reason.
Right back atcha though. Both NERV and Gainax showed in themselves the issues behind doing things the nubank way.
Take Magi, for instance, and at the same time Evangelion:
the product of a turboautist's mind
needs tard wranglers to not shoot itself in the foot
the few people around it are there mostly to keep it from derailing itself
temperamental AF
can be taken to hell and back solely on the internal contradictions of it's creator
has some serious lack of polish that could come with a bigger development team
is unique enough though, although derivative, due to not being developed by comitee
ultimately can't do what it set itself to do, being supplanted by third party powers, some that even include people once on their side
Also, Magi is a computer, not a chip. I don't get much about computer development, but I always figured the product of Akagi's work was the workings behind connecting brains to machines and programming three of them to work in tandem. I gather she probably used pre-made chips developed by other people though, for the parts that aren't exactly the main software and the brains.
They only have 3 combatants. What work would there be for multiple generals?
he'd regain half his weight everytime the cockpit filled with LCL, just from rehydration
Generals handle major strategic/doctrinal
What strategy and doctrine?
The Angels show up one by one.
Thats my point. It makes perfect sense for Misato to have the power that she does.
That said its not fair to reduce her responsibilities to 3 combatants. She would also be in charge of all the maintenance people, security, admin/support staff too. Look up tooth:tail ratio
I said thats how it works IRL. At Nerv that would be Gendo and Fuyutski
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I like how more people are acknowledging how awful of a parental figure Misato was. She wanted to play house and was in way over her head, very unfair preferential treatment between the pilots too.
Who else was there? Tokyo was a dump heap and the rest of the world didn't seem to be much better. Take what you can get.
the plan was to fix them with booze
narrative convenience to allow them to explore the themes of the series.
every time the show features maintenence or maintenence-adjacent tasks its ritsuko running the show. there's no indication misato has any major responsibilities beyond the combatants and direct combat operations. nerv is not a military, it is a civilian organization with a small paramilitary contingent. misato's ranks are largely (possibly entirely) for show, her position doesn't seem to change at all when she's promoted, and ritsuko has the authority to completely supercede her in ep 16.
I want to play wrestle with Asuka.
This, but anal sex
professional psychologists and behavioral experts
no people with useless degrees in post-second-impact world
Flip on the telly
Wrestle with Asuka
I guess the ranks could be useful for coordinating with JSDF and UN? Like if it was awarded by them to suggest how seriously officers can take her communications.
actually that makes sense, i didnt consider it. nerv getting disrespected by other authorities is a recurring thing
A nice take, I also guess weapon prohibitions in nippon kept up even after the third impact happened, so Misato and everyone else probably needed to count as military to have guns.
Nerv doesn't seem to be beholden to Japanese law, the organization has some kinda broad extralegality that Misato cites when she just shows up and takes the SDF's particle canon. Tokyo 3 is probably extraterritorial too considering how its governed. The UN is seemingly a de facto world government in Eva.
She wants to do that with you as well, CHADsuke-kun.