hikari (etc) 🌟think i'll rewatch rebuild of evangelion because a friend mentioned shikinami asuka and it's been an eternity since we saw the first three films so we don't remember how her characterisation has changed. also we still haven't seen the fourth movie so this is finally our chance
okay, time to rewatch evangelion 1.11!
tfw there's no sound during the logos so you question if your audio setup is working
instead of just re-releasing evangelion in hd with the original film grain they have to destroy culture by pointlessly reanimating it in horrible 2010's widescreen. look at how dead this still looks. in this essay i will—
oh wait oh my god this is the first time in our life that we have realised that the “N2 mine” is what you would call a “tactical nuclear weapon”. when gendou says “conventional weapons” (通常兵器) won't work, that's the implication. we always thought it was a cool new explosive
“N2” just always felt like it fit in alongside “TNT” and the like!
the earlier tweet was a joke but nearly 9 minutes in and the "remake"-yness is constantly irritating me a little. it's not as pretty and it just feels a little off sometimes, the way the shots have been changed. i don't know
it's particularly weird because it alternates between stuff that looks straight out of a 2010's anime and something that's trying to look like 1995 cel shading
but i'm also finding the particular choice of subtitle font (left) is putting me in the wrong mood. luckily this release has uh. a huge selection of different sub tracks mashed into it (don't ask), each with different fonts, so i'm just picking another one (right).
「知らない天井だ。」
it feels like things are moving too fast…
„Plan zur Komplementarität der Menscheit“ huh
the 3DCG is bothering me and strangely enough it's the opening and closing of sliding doors which is doing it, which should be trivial to animate, I don't understand
as ikari shinji-kun stares at another 知らない天井, at least he still has his SDAT player
this shot is pretty cool
when rendering that clip i didn't realise at first i had to request a downmix from 6.1 to 2.0, and in the process discovered that you can easily get a mix where there's just the background music, no speech. that's kind of cool. i think i might like to watch a whole movie that way
the rest of that sequence, with shinji staring at the clouds, has this almost ætherial feeling to it, i wish i'd posted the whole thing
I guess, without it being cut into episodes with their natural stopping points and OPs and EDs, they have to change pace occasionally to make the flow feel right
Ikari-kun über dem Nebelmeer (again)
oh lmao there's still an eyecatch in the middle. i guess that's a good spot to put an intermission. they don't do intermissions these days. they should
the “requisitioning the entirety of japan's electrical supply” thing is famously cool but i also can't help but think about how you simply can't use an entire nation's electricity supply in one place at one time because there just isn't the transfer capacity
oh they have specially laid “superconductive cables” so i guess they anticipated that!
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N² Technology
The N² Technology ("N²" being short for Non-Nuclear) is a technology seen throughout various Evangelion series in different forms. It typically refers to a electromagnetic/nuclear weapon hybrid, coming in many different forms. N² weapons (N²兵器, Enu Tsū Heiki?) is the name given to the strongest conventional (non-Evangelion) weapons ever created by mankind. N² weapons are as strong as nuclear bombs, even being capable of producing electro-magnetic pulses, but they do not produce the...
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