A friend of mine mentioned making a middle-aged mecha pilot for a Lancer game and it just makes me imagine 38 year old Shinji Ikari from #NeonGenesisEvangelion being told to get in the robot and being 100% done with it.
"Fine, but I better be getting OT out of this."
[While getting his mech's face stomped in by an Angel]
Well, I don't own the main Evangelion manga. However, I do actually own the spinoff series Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project. Based very loosely on the #VideoGame of the same name, the Shinji Ikari Raising Project takes place in an alternate universe to the mainline Evangelion universe. In this one, however, there are no angel attacks; they are not piloting Eva units; and Yui Ikari is alive. Also, Gendo is an actual...present parent. Imagine if they took the characters and personalities of the cast of Evangelion and put it into a school romantic comedy with some occasional ecchi elements - that's the Shinji Ikari Raising Project.
In effect, this series takes place in one variation of the alternate universe Shinji nearly imagined into existence in Episode 26 of the mainline Evangelion anime.
If that sounds interesting to you and you would like to check out an AU version of Evangelion where Shinji has a present Dad & the cast is mostly happy, check it out!
@iska when you're a #NeonGenesisEvangelion fan and work in #Construction, and then your boss wants the digger repainted and doesn't say "factory colours" when asked...
@arstechnica
. . . . so many mutations … clamoring for BA.2.86 to have its own Greek letter… only "variants of concern (VOC) qualify; To attain VOC status, BA.2.86 would have to meet at least one concerning criteria: clearly cause more severe disease; change epidemiology trends in a way that could imperil health care resources; or significantly evade vaccine protection from severe disease.
It’s raining like #neongenesisevangelion#bladerunner
Rewatching Neon Genesis Evangelion Rebuild. … I’m on 3.33, and as with all of them, it’s wild, breathtaking, confrontational, surrealistic
I’m especially thinking about how, these sequels are driven by the weird lack of communication, as if all the characters have forgotten how to communicate.
Like, if anyone just explained what was happening to Shinji, wouldn’t it solve most of the major plot-driving conflicts?
"...the apocalyptic adventures of a space archaeologist and her robot mirror, piecing together the shattered clues of an undead civilisation to try and prevent an invasion of maddened machine ghosts."
Big day for my #Evangelion rewatch, episode 12 is my favorite of all time. It’s so good, has everything you want in a single episode of Eva. You get some lore re: the Second Impact, some melancholy philosophical pontificating ( but not TOO melancholy) and an Angel that is imo one of the most overpowered ergo scary Angels that they ever fight.
The fight between the Eva’s and the Angel is an all-timer. Evangelion has this approach to fight scenes where it’s almost never just a punch fest that ends with Finishing MoveTM. Something is always happening e.g. jumping from battleship to battleship or dropping down to the bottom of a shaft to grab a rifle, or in this case running to “catch” the Angel with an #ATField
I have a shirt with this episodes title screen, maybe I can dig it up.