In 1999, Ikuri got to know the sextant Gento. Domestic animation information magazines have just emerged, from tapes to VCDs to posters, from fandoms to free-feel comments, and overwhelming EVA. A VCD in the Computer City sells for 6 yuan, which can contain two animations, a total of 13 pieces of 78 yuan, for poor students, buying a set is a big project that requires saving money and borrowing money, and we moths Fight to the fire like one after another.
In 2000, the second impact occurred in Antarctica, and only one of the Katsuragi investigation team survived. At that time, the Internet in mainland China was not popular enough or cheap enough. Internet cafes cost four yuan an hour. I just started surfing the Internet. I don’t know what is the forum, how to open the mailbox, I can’t switch the input method, and the keyboard fingering is very rusty. The first address I input after learning to use IE is the "EVA Research Station" copied from the magazine. It turned out to be quite lively.
In 2002, Fuyuki Farming investigated the truth of the second impact, and was taken to the underground city by Ikogento the following year. After that, he joined SEELE and began to assist Ikogento. At about this time, "Sky Eagle Warrior" was fully aired, "A beautiful angel calling you from a distance" and "Don't you dare to sing with girls on your mother's death day!" became classic jokes, and EVA has also become a classic joke ever since. It has gained rapid popularity in a way that no one has expected. At that time, someone on the Internet broke the news and said, "The six-year-old Zhengtai downstairs in my house stopped calling'Tianma Meteor Fist', and instead called'Sky Eagle Warrior One, launch!' NS"……
In 2005, Miri and Kaji started dating and lived together. EVA's 10th Anniversary-Some of us who were so poor that we had to rent an EVA comic version at that time can already have the financial strength to order Japanese original peripheral products online. EVA itself has long ceased to be a big hit, but has appeared in the nostalgic section as you can see now, and is regarded by younger children as being similar to the OTAKU collection.
In 2015, Ikura Shinji became the third qualified person. EVA's 20th anniversary. Twenty years ago, the weak and useless male protagonists and the indifferent girls who were indifferent and indifferent, who basically did not exist in the anime of 20 years ago, will probably be borrowed, KUSO, and quoted more times...but at that time, The teenagers of that era probably never remember the origins of these famous quotes and scenes, and we, who were once teenagers, have become genuine uncles.
People's impression of EVA has always been around the big signs of "philosophy", "religion", "robot animation", "adolescent psychological problems" and so on, but for those who like it, its real fascinating features, It lies in its innovation, uniqueness, kindness, authenticity, depth, sharpness, and imperfection. Its imperfections have left countless mysteries and endless money-robbing surroundings; its imperfections are like an adolescent dream, chaotic, mysterious, unclear, and undulating on the surface of the water.
It is difficult to clearly state how deeply EVA has had an impact on us at that time. Freud, Psychoanalysis, Judaism, Lilith... For us who were poor in information at that time, the appearance of these words was full of shock. To put it in an exaggeration, "It turns out that robot animation can have this depth. The connotation!"-And this kind of feeling, we are all accustomed to the various quotations in various animations, and we probably won't have it anymore.
There are a lot of animations now, we will forget them once we have seen them. But for EVA, I believe that many people still remember its STAFF list, and they can also memorize the full seiyuu list from the first machine to Asuka's father, but even so, these people are still far from the diehard fans, because they At most I remember the sentence "God's in his heaven, all's right with the world." under the NERV logo, and I don’t remember the Japanese title and English subtitle of each sentence. I can’t recite the famous lines in large paragraphs like the cipher. If I don’t know Japanese, I learned to sing OP by memorizing pronunciation. I didn’t collect all the editions of ED "FLY ME TO THE MOON"...
It is also because the real fans of EVA are too powerful, so I say that I like EVA. Actually It's a bit dangerous thing, it's easy to be treated like those otaku fat OTAKU, even though in fact I just want to send a nympho to Uncle Shansi... Well, I mean I like blessings. He was a perplexed but determined man. Because there was something he had been searching for, he was able to die indifferently at dusk under the huge exhaust fan.
In EVA, there are many adults like Blessing. They are troubled, disturbed, hard-working, struggling, discouraged, and desperate. They solemnly preach to the children with common sense, but they are busy with futile dealings, and they are finally caught by fate. Swallow without hesitation. They are a bit idealistic, but extremely real, which makes EVA more memorable. After all, the audience will not be teenagers one day. We, who just met EVA six years ago, are about the same age as Shinji and others, but in fact they were originally the same age as Kaji and Misato. Six years ago, we paid attention to the fate of those teenagers, but six years later, we thought more of the adults who existed in the background.
But there will be a day, you know, there will be a day when we will stop dreaming and think about "who I am" because we are sober, because we are numb, or because we are busy. There will surely be a day when we will concentrate on pursuing a certain goal, looking for our own truth, because of attachment, because of firmness, or because of emptiness.
If you look back at EVA this day, please tell me what you feel like.
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