Jet, if you don’t mind answering, how come you hate Evangelion as much as you do? Not that I blame you, as I dropped the series halfway through myself (out of sheer boredom), but I’m genuinely curious as to what gave birth to this anger

keyofjetwolf:

I CULTIVATED MY LOATHING AT A TENDER YOUNG AGE

In complete honesty, I’d have to go back and rewatch the whole thing again to give you specifics, and I’ll give you a guess how thrilled I am at that prospect. But Doc’s liveblog has basically hit my biggest problems on the head: NGE is presented as having all these high concepts and deep meaning, but then has zero confidence that its audience could figure them out without fucking IKEA assembly instructions.

DON’T TREAT ME LIKE I’M STUPID NOTHING WILL INFURIATE ME FASTER

That on top of all that, it’s infused with garbage symbolism that literally means nothing just someone thought it looked cool, the insistence of every dude in a college anime club that it’s the greatest work of our time, AND it has the audacity to be boring as fuck.

Burn NGE in a goddamn fire and and salt the earth, GOD I hate it.

…the insistence of every dude in a college anime club that it’s the
greatest work of our time, AND it has the audacity to be boring as fuck. 

The toxic dudes in my anime club were cut from this cloth, and while it’s not NGE’s fault exactly, it certainly never had a chance once I woke up and realized this was a social group I should have no part of. So NGE is… more or less a giant red flag for me.

ALSO ANNO CAN EAT MY DICK