[KamenRiderRevenge]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I just find a lot of anime pretentious if I'm honest, not just Gundam. I used to be into anime in a big way when I was a kid, but as I got older I started to notice all the cheap little devices anime used to come across as more intelligent than it really is. I'm not saying that anime can't be intelligent, or though provoking but shit like this, is intelligence as penned by a fourteen year old child.

Ah, Evangelion. SO SUBTLE.

[Powerman293]

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderRevenge

Ah, Evangelion. SO SUBTLE.

Evangelion is the Kamen Rider Faiz of mecha anime. Most regard it as the best show if its kind ever while other people find it trash. And there's that minority of people that like it but see its major flaws. But in no way are either of them subtle intentionally.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderRevenge

Ah, Evangelion. SO SUBTLE.

Let's call the villains "angels" and "Adam's fifteen children" oh my God we're so deep.

[KamenRiderRevenge]

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Originally Posted by Powerman293

Evangelion is the Kamen Rider Faiz of mecha anime. Most regard it as the best show if its kind ever while other people find it trash. And there's that minority of people that like it but see its major flaws. But in no way are either of them subtle intentionally.

I like it, just not all the pointless symbolism.

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Originally Posted by Locke

Let's call the villains "angels" and "Adam's fifteen children" oh my God we're so deep.

Let's make Lilith look exactly like her creepy clone daughter who has her soul too, oh God were perfect. Let's give the main character an Oedipus complex, it'll be great.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderRevenge

Let's make Lilith look exactly like her creepy clone daughter who has her soul too, oh God were perfect. Let's give the main character an Oedipus complex, it'll be great.

I've seen thin crust pizzas with more depth.

[KamenRiderRevenge]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I've seen thin crust pizzas with more depth.

They added all that Christianity symbolism because it looked cool. Doesn't that seem a bit, I don't know, disrespectful?

[GoseiWonder]

Maybe it's the Japanese equivalent of Westerners throwing in zen koans and other Eastern Theological stuff into media to sound "deep and cultured."

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderRevenge

They added all that Christianity symbolism because it looked cool. Doesn't that seem a bit, I don't know, disrespectful?

Just a tad

[KamenRiderRevenge]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

Maybe it's the Japanese equivalent of Westerners throwing in zen koans and others Eastern Theological stuff into media to sound "deep and cultured." :eyeroll

Yeah. Just because you add unneeded symbolism, tons of references that only fanatics will get, and rather disturbing implications, doesn't mean you get a good show.

[KamenRiderRevenge]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Just a tad

It's like they said, "Let's get your religion, add some emos and scary old men, a bunch of cyborgs with the souls of dead women, and say the very thing you believe is a big lie!"