Mfw people have waifus from evangelion, even though that completely goes against the message and narrative of the show

you're supposed to be 18 to post here user

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I agree, the message isn't that anime is bad.
But obsessing over a girl that doesn't even exist is not healthy.

No it doesn't

Yes it does but
Gets it

Anno can't really say jack when his mission statement before he made it was to "increase the number of otaku" and upon getting as mainstream an audience as possible proceeded to merchandise the hell out of it all the while going "lol otaku bad brr play the swimming pool pachinko"

obsessing over a real girl is arguably even more unhealthy

The otaku's were self-made user, along with the obsession on "who's best girl".
The show was a fake robot show covered up to be a show to tell virgins to stop relying on anime as a foundation to not live in their fake reality and obsesses over fictional settings and women.
Anyone who is angry at the message are the exact people he's targeting

what was the "message" of the show please do tell OP

only amerifats try to sum shit up and reduce it to a "message"
Anything with a simple, one sentence message is not valuable and basically marvel movie tier, NGE does not have a simple message and the greater message certainly doesn't have anything to do with "waifus" you dumbass kid

How about not at all?

I think that this is correct

Don't be like shinji is the real message.

pretty reductionist i'd say

Im not american. I come from one of the 3 good countrys

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Hard to swallow pill

The message is literally “take care of yourself” you ducking delusional retard. Maybe your country should teach interpreting the creator’s message.

just say you didn't get it lol
in simplest terms, i'd say the "message" was the debate between the anime ending and the end of evangelion, which one is ideal?

Only wannabe intellectuals think that a message is bad because it can be said in one sentence.

We don't care

That isn’t the message at all, this is all just pretentious postmodernists looking into something that isn’t there.

The irony is that the western fanbase has always imagine Anno to be “anti-waifu”, while in reality he is the biggest and worst of them all. After all, it would take one of them to create the most well-known and attractive waifus in the entire medium.

I mean, this is the guy who collects sailor moon doujins and proudly displays Strike Witches DVD's on his desk.

nah, a simple message defeats the purpose of sitting through a long show, if there aren't many complex interrelating messages there's no fucking point, if you can convey the message accurately to someone who hasn't seen the show than the show it pointless, the reason we're even on this board, discussing these shows is because they are more complex than a single message, use your brain user

The message is one sentence. But without the rest of the show nobody would care about it. Thats why you create something with a meaning behind it.

What? That’s not even a message, you’re just trying to look smart and by God, it’s not working.

It's almost like you just ignored the part where I said the whole show was a cover-up.
The man is married, I'd love to see a source for that alleged "porn collection" though
Keep sperging out though, you're proving the point.

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Pretty off-topic, but I hate how things often get boiled down to a slogan.
Politics, religion, art, it all gets torn apart until it's simple enough for the average person to understand, but the substance lies in the nuance that got thrown out.

shinji's mistakes are pretty common for teenager
still if you can avoid making them, then at least you can say you got something out of it

The real message of Evangelion was that mentally undeveloped 14 year olds make for shit frontline soldiers. Fight me.

the message is not simple you dunce, it's the debate the show leaves you with

i really feel you user, i hate how much people argue with this too like NO THIS IS THE MESSAGE like bruh if the "message" is simple enough for you to tell me what it is why should i care lol

I still don't understand why only kids can pilote evas.

shinji's literally just a self insert not a deep character