swimsuit season
my friend and i were talking about this yesterday and the thing that really bugs me about the nge fandom (and yes it has a fandom) is how completely bland it is
the source material is this sprawling angry and contradictory attack on everything from the anime industry to the postmodern condition and you’d think it’d be those qualities that would attract fan but all the discussion of it falls on the most basic tropes and surface analyses
like lets not think critically think about how shinji and kaworu is an a meditation on the nature of the hedgehog’s paradox lets make them a kawaii squee yaoi uwuwuwuwuwuwu couple instead
let’s talk about how totally hawt and bangable rei is instead of considering for even a second how her character is basically a savage attack on otaku culture and its perennial fetishization of nubile, emotionless doll girls
why think about or discuss any of those things when we can make a hundred “im so fucked up” and “get in the robot shinji” jokes a minute
