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Okay! Here I show you the work that I have done the greatest to date! Every day I try to create something that I like as much as these illustrations, but it seems that I can’t, and that frustrates me :(
What does it seems to you?
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Gentlest please to draw your roller derby Asuka 🥹 when you have time! I just love your drawings sm and it’s such a wholesome idea 🥹
You're going to have to forgive the quality because I wanted to do it more than a doodle but I also don't draw a lot anymore and I don't enjoy coloring. This is about the best I could do given the circumstances. Roller derby girl Asuka and her number one fan/ secret lover Shinji Ikari. Her derby name has something to do with anarchy, I decided, hence the shirt
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This mischaracterization of Shinji is also ironic, considering that Shinji is depicted as incredibly competent at what he does. He just hates to do it.
Perhaps because it is hammered down on us that piloting the Eva is mentally destructive, combined with the fact that he is a lonely, neglected, emotionally unstable and then depressed fourteen year old boy with almost no emotional support.
Shinji is, in fact, extremely courageous.
whenever I see fanart of Shinji, there’s a high chance it PORTRAYS shinji as whiny, always in tears, or acting weak 24/7. I find that to be a misguided interpretation of Shinji, because that’s not how he acts whatsoever! I was looking through Reddit, and I found a comment from u/BorkNStein that describes exactly how I feel:
“Shinji isn't a typical powerfantasy anime protagonist. He's vulnerable, insecure, and he hates himself. For some people this just isn't what they come to anime to see. They want the protagonist to be a badass so they can feel like a badass. They don't want to try to empathize with Shinji and his struggle, even though the problems he deals with are very real and many people strongly relate to him.”
You don’t have to like Shinji, but please take this in mind.
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I do not care what anyone says, End of Evangelion is a love letter to Asuka.
It ended with a positive message: that life goes on if you choose to live it, and proved that she could find strength within herself to resist the temptations of human instrumentality, return to the real world and face her issues head-on, despite every horrible thing that happened to her. She survived and will still continue to live. That’s what makes her such a great human character.
Despite the overall positive message of the original ending, what it lacked was a proper resolution to Asuka’s character. And while yes, she received special attention, many aspects of her arc were not directly addressed. EoE rectified this.
Her pride took a massive beating in the last episodes of NGE. She ended up all alone, decaying in that accursed bathtub. She was hospitalized in a coma, all alone, was betrayed by the last person she could call a friend, and who considered himself a friend asking for her help.
And yet, when called into action, she rose up to the challenge again. Perhaps it was her greatest performance. She was defeated, yes. Some could say she was humiliated, yes. No matter. It was never about that. It was never about Asuka finding her sense of self again through success in piloting the Eva.
Inside instrumentality, she got to have a much-needed confrontation with Shinji, which was a long time coming for the entire series — something that the first ending did not address to its full potential. She even laid out her resentments and her feelings for him. Just because it wasn’t wholesome, or because neither of them were necessarily right or wrong in their stances, that doesn’t make any of it less valid or true.
In the end, she not only survived, but rejected the illusion to embrace her humanity and crawl back to life again. She chose to return to the world that had only brought her pain. While still showing compassion to the person who hurt her.
She isn’t perfect by any means and we cannot say her arc is truly finished: she still has to learn to love herself, accept herself and others, and face the pains of the world. That’s the whole point. It’s not over for her.
The mecha fights that she lost were the least important part. In the end, she won a much bigger battle.
#neon genesis evangelion#evangelion#nge#end of evangelion#asuka langley soryu#shinji ikari#justice for asuka#Asuka’s character development was the best part of EoE#EoE ends in a high note for Asuka
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Kaworu's emotional impact is so great that we often forget he performed one of the best action sequences in the whole series. All the while explaining angel lore to a very distraught Shinji.
Kaworu blocking Unit-01's progressive knife with his AT-Field shield, while revealing that's his soul and simultaneously controlling Unit-02 in battle is one of the rawest, most electrifying sequences in Evangelion.
Kaworu's character range is simply incredible. Lest we forget most of the tension was built by Kaworu himself.
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> Now playing: Fly Me To The Moon
I just wanted Shinji to be a part of this glorious ending sequence.
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Asuka, help me! Please! Asuka, you’re the only person that can help me!
– FINAL SCENE, THE END OF EVANGELION
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I know all about your little jerk-off fantasies about me. Go ahead, and do it like you always do… I’ll even stand here and watch you. But… if I can’t have you all to myself, then I don’t want anything from you.
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The reason I like Neon Genesis Evangelion so much is because this is the only time Asuka is Soryu. This wretchedly human, incredible character.
Asuka the concept appears in other media, yes. But in the Rebuilds she is Shikinami and stripped of all Soryu-defining traits, another character entirely.
Soryu the surname appears in a few other spin-offs, yes, but then none of the intensity of the original series survives to make her past trauma, her struggles, her best qualities shine like they did in NGE. The context changes her character, if not her name.
The Asuka Langley Soryu, in all her glory and conflict, exists only within the confinement of 19 episodes and a movie. None of the other iterations of Asuka are like her. The first, the original. She’s the beating heart of NGE.
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Magmadiver is a solid, great episode in terms of character study.
Asuka’s, Misato’s and Shinji’s personalities and problems get explored. Asuka’s need to be the center of attention - in the missions as well as on Kaji’s and Shinji’s minds. Asuka’s challenge of Shinji’s masculinity. Shinji’s lust, shyness and bravery, all at once. Misato’s determination to complete the mission, to the point of willingly putting Asuka at risk of death - which would have happened, if not for Shinji being there. Asuka’s fear in the battle against the angel.
All of this comes to bite them later on in the series, and these traits form the core of the characters’s most significant moments. Their connections to each other are laid down here.
The depictions of lust and sexuality are incredibly meaningful and well done, character-wise. It was never meant to be gratifying.
The episode could only be called lighthearted when you see it for the first time. When you go back and watch it again, it’s not. Because then you know what happens to these kids, how much they suffer and lose. It’s actually a “before everything goes wrong”episode, and it lays the groundwork for what will go wrong while also giving Shinji and Asuka just a smidge of time to be teenagers, and then again not really. It’s quite symbolic that they couldn’t go to the class trip, they’ll never live normally lives.
And it’s all foreshadowed for you. “You know about my past” is what Asuka tells Misato at the end. “It’s part of my job” is the reply.
It is not a “filler” episode. Magmadiver introduces you to a series of elements that play a central role in the story.
#neon genesis evangelion#evangelion#nge#shinji ikari#asuka langley soryu#misato katsuragi#magmadiver
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It’s such a dark irony, in retrospect, that in Ep. 9, Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!, Shinji and Asuka have to coordinate and synchronize to defeat Israfel
While in the rest of the series, their inability to connect and understand each other is one of the greatest factors leading to their downfall and tragedy
It’s almost as if they teased us with the right solution from the beginning and showed us what might’ve been
#neon genesis evangelion#evangelion#nge#shinji ikari#asuka langley soryu#this episode gets darker if you know what happens next
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