It’s also because Evangelion popularized a ton of common tropes in anime.

The fact that you still think the rebuild movies are a retelling and not a continuation of the story says otherwise but that's fine, we can drop it lol

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Yeah, exactly. It was a comment about a stylistic choice. In no way does that imply the show didn’t hold some particular meaning for him.

Again, the movies are not a remake of the series. The events of everything after movie 2 are 100% different and are what lead to the eventual final loop which was the rebuild movies.

> because it would be more interesting to a Japanese audience

And that's a statement about "appeal", not meaning. Or about form as opposed to substance, if you will.

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The movies are not a remake, they are a continuation of the plot. You need to watch the original series l, then End of Evangelion, THEN the RE movie series for the full story

I’m pretty sure he just said that they used Christian iconography because it would be more interesting to a Japanese audience. But I like through telephone his statement has now become "yeah I just threw some shit together idk."

Except I did and you stopped responding

Is "philosophy" the new euphemism term?

it's fucking everywhere everywhere

no it's a waste of my time. you couldn't provide even 1 example of what you claimed and that was immediately obvious. bye

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Great writeup, how did you study philosophy?

Yeah that's cool, but TRUTH is in the King James Bible so...

By "original ending" do you mean the ending of the series, or the movie End of Evangelion which is an expanded/alternative ending to the original series?

Also, I have to disagree that the ending of the quadrology is better. Honestly, I hated the last one.

The article is going into the Philosophy mostly, not the religious mystical motifs.

Yes, I'm familiar with arithmetic in different bases. "Base 10" is not a branch of mathematics.

Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, graph theory, combinatorics, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, model theory, functional analysis, compex analysis, Fourier analysis ... you had a lot of choices here

Tatami Galaxy is very good. Can't describe it, you gotta watch it

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu is a masterpiece of storytelling with a ton of metaphors and symbolism, but it's a slow paced drama show so not too popular (although very highly rated)

I don't think there's much philosophy in it at all. It's like philosophical free associative writing. To quote Macbeth: Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,. Signifying nothing. I think the writers got the last laugh though, because the incoherency of the plot and the ambiguities of it kept people talking about it.

Philosophy experiences similar inexhaustible interpretations and debates.

Debatable -

But I think the real question is whether Anno is being dishonest or excessively modest about his background knowledge, or if some other contributor to the work impacted the meaning.

Textual interpretation is difficult to pin down just to an author’s mental states. If a text can be effectively used to advance an idea, even one the author didn’t intend, people are liable to do so.

There’s plenty of value outside of authorial intent that we throw away if we narrow acceptable interpretations down to ones the author plausibly or likely intended.

did anyone else watch that like hours-long analysis of every eva property ever omg

Lol touché