At 02:15 PM 2/2/2007, Joseph Riggs wrote:
So does this mean that no one will remember Evangelion in twenty years?
<cries tears of joy> One can only hope.
On a more serious note - the theme you discuss (which I generally
agree with, btw, if I understand you correctly) turns up
elsewhere. For instance, RahXephon has episode 19, "Blue Friend",
which is the episode where Ayato and his friend are on the run. How
common in the anime war stories industry would you say that such an idea is?
I think it shows up a lot. It happened in Eureka 7, for instance, and
Amuro did it in Gundam. I think Kira did it as well in SEED, and
Shinji made a career of it in Evangelion.
Come to think of it, the Super Dimensional stories (Macross, Southern
Cross, Mospeada) seem to be unusual in the fact that the characters
involved signed up for military service voluntarily and weren't
especially competant in their roles -- they were just grunts doing
the best they could. Probably part of why the stories were so
successful as Robotech.
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