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I'm watching Log Horizon and they gave the cat dude a super niggery voice for some reason.
Dude, are you high? Jovan Jackson was the best voice in that entire dub, and I think it's hilarious for a cat character to have the deepest voice out of them all while still making cat noises. Besides, Nyanta already had a deep voice to begin with, Sentai just happened to make it deeper.

We legit need more black VAs to sound like Beau Billingslea. The dude's turning 80 this year, he's not going to be around much longer if he's not already retired.
 
Not gonna lie, Eva lore sounds as retarded and up its own ass as virtually everything ever made by Hideo Kojima.
More or less. Most of it is supplementary material anyways that doesn't matter all that much, but I blame the bad lore/worldbuilding on Asuka. She's best girl and all that, but she murders the pacing and calls it a faggot the second she first appears
 
Not gonna lie, Eva lore sounds as retarded and up its own ass as virtually everything ever made by Hideo Kojima.
It's full of neat ideas and provides a unique atmosphere that no show since has truly replicated(granted, a lot of that has to do with the pitch-perfect soundtrack courtesy of sagisu) but the actual explanations for what was happening and why it was happening are weird at best and utterly nonsensical at worst. I also take issue with lore that relies on supplementary material to explain what the fuck is going on. Let the whole thing be enigmatic if you don't have time to explain it in the show proper, that's half the appeal of Eva anyways.

Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if Anno agrees to sign over the rights for some Evangelion Cinematic Universe so he can get one final paycheck before he leaves the IP behind for good. Then some other schmuck could make spinoff after spinoff explaining the whole thing to death in a giant self-contradicting clusterfuck.
 
All life on Earth in the Rebuilds is affected by the (quasi-)Third Impact because it was stopped half-way, so there's still some lifeforms strong enough to keep their AT fields intact while the rest of the world is still fucked with some weird crystals
No, because the impacts in the rebuilds are different. They are like stages. The second impact cleaned the oceans (it was one of the plot points in 2.0 that would later be used again in the sequel films where the JMPRO would eventually form wille with their technology to clean the corefied area into the other areas.

And it wasn't that there were lifeforms strong enough, what the fuck are you talking about. In 3.0 + 1.0 and mainly the -46h we see how it was spread. The wanderers spread the coreification by walking on the earth, spreading it.

We even have a concept art of how it was supposed to look but they changed the designs into the red lanklets in the film.
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Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if Anno agrees to sign over the rights for some Evangelion Cinematic Universe so he can get one final paycheck before he leaves the IP behind for good. Then some other schmuck could make spinoff after spinoff explaining the whole thing to death in a giant self-contradicting clusterfuck.
There have been some talks about Eva-related shows/content/whatever for some time now, altought nothing major has been revealed. Anno has said that he wants to explore the setting more, but we most likely won't be seeing anything that directly involves the main cast
 
Dude, are you high? Jovan Jackson was the best voice in that entire dub, and I think it's hilarious for a cat character to have the deepest voice out of them all while still making cat noises. Besides, Nyanta already had a deep voice to begin with, Sentai just happened to make it deeper.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPJ-MlBZDbw
We legit need more black VAs to sound like Beau Billingslea. The dude's turning 80 this year, he's not going to be around much longer if he's not already retired.
I'll second it, black VAs can be really good without taking you out of the work. One of the reason I hate the culture wars is how it makes you look at everything through a racial lens.

that's because it is
Pretty much, the thing that saves it is that it all boils down to a glorified capture the flag game, nothing really matters beyond that.
 
My favourite piracy site (anix.to) got flagged as a phishing threat. Any other good sites to use? Hianime.to is slow/doesn't have everything and Aniwave is an ad nightmare. I guess I'll now just watch stuff that's on Youtube and archive.org, or use torrents more often (which I hate because it's so slow).
 
My favourite piracy site (anix.to) got flagged as a phishing threat. Any other good sites to use? Hianime.to is slow/doesn't have everything and Aniwave is an ad nightmare.
Learn to torrent and use nyaa. Streaming sites are way too low quality to be used nowadays.
 
Dude, are you high? Jovan Jackson was the best voice in that entire dub, and I think it's hilarious for a cat character to have the deepest voice out of them all while still making cat noises. Besides, Nyanta already had a deep voice to begin with, Sentai just happened to make it deeper.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPJ-MlBZDbw
We legit need more black VAs to sound like Beau Billingslea. The dude's turning 80 this year, he's not going to be around much longer if he's not already retired.
Best VA Choice by miles. Really made the character tbh.
“Is there really a God?”
 
I'll second it, black VAs can be really good without taking you out of the work. One of the reason I hate the culture wars is how it makes you look at everything through a racial lens.
There's times where the race factor can be amusing, though. One of my favorite VAs right now is Zeno Robinson, and it's because he can chameleon himself to sound like the whitest person in the world despite being black.
 
Western anime fans lack an absolute fuck-ton of context in general for Evangelion. The only real super robot show popular in the west to any great extent was Voltron, and none of that really maps to Eva. Without context, such as both Hideaki Anno's production history and knowledge of the genre it's actually part of, its just a horror anime with big robots and Judeo-Christian references westerners can "get" to some extent. And even with context, it's a matter of personal taste - can you accept that these characters are traumatized and make bad decisions frequently, or is it bleak enough that you can't care? I fall in the latter camp. I understand why Eva is popular and became an institution, even in the west. Personally, I think it strips out everything likable about super robot anime for edge, which hilariously makes it more popular amongst normalfags.
 
No, because the impacts in the rebuilds are different. They are like stages. The second impact cleaned the oceans (it was one of the plot points in 2.0 that would later be used again in the sequel films where the JMPRO would eventually form wille with their technology to clean the corefied area into the other areas.

And it wasn't that there were lifeforms strong enough, what the fuck are you talking about. In 3.0 + 1.0 and mainly the -46h we see how it was spread. The wanderers spread the coreification by walking on the earth, spreading it.

We even have a concept art of how it was supposed to look but they changed the designs into the red lanklets in the film.

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Eva really needs its own kind of AC game that
1. Isn't focused on the main cast
2. Customizable player Eva
3. Isn't a fucking mobile game.
4. Isn't a fucking VN.

Great biblical apocalypse setting, horrible hack author who doesn't want to invite the audience to experience it for themselves. The player character should be an empty husk as a vessel for the player to experience the fictional world for themselves like the Master chief being a glorified green suit of armor. EVA could even tie this into its own story narratives like Marathon did. Though the Japanese are especially insanely autistic and schizophrenic with the concept of souls and vessels for them.

Eva really needs as solid storyline that isn't left completely up to interpretation or just anno's purposely vague autism. There's leaving supernatural things out and then there's refusing to do basic worldbuilding, which is what anno is insanely guilty of when it comes to explaining what the fuck an "impact" is besides some allusion to japan being nuked during WW2 and literally seeing red over it.

Western anime fans lack an absolute fuck-ton of context in general for Evangelion. The only real super robot show popular in the west to any great extent was Voltron, and none of that really maps to Eva. Without context, such as both Hideaki Anno's production history and knowledge of the genre it's actually part of, its just a horror anime with big robots and Judeo-Christian references westerners can "get" to some extent. And even with context, it's a matter of personal taste - can you accept that these characters are traumatized and make bad decisions frequently, or is it bleak enough that you can't care? I fall in the latter camp. I understand why Eva is popular and became an institution, even in the west. Personally, I think it strips out everything likable about super robot anime for edge, which hilariously makes it more popular amongst normalfags.
It totally has nothing to do with the last decade of retards on youtube spamming video essays along the lines of "EVANGELION SAEVED MAI LAIF!" or "EVERyTHhing WONG WIT (x thing in evangelion)". Its decently animated but the story isn't compelling, the characters are forgettable except Rei, who has the personality of a brick wall, and every episode essentially a step removed from an ultraman skit or michael bay transformers film. Since giant robots vs giant monsters was not anything Eva pioneered. On top of it all with the writer not only delaying the conclusion of the rebuilds by about a decade, but then having the gall to pull the rug out from under new fans and essentially tell them to go touch grass in the ending. When I literally went though college and got married before he decided to release this fucking movie with one of the most retarded naming conventions I have ever seen. 3.0+1.0. Nigger just call it 4.0. It takes place after the third one. Anno is a fucking hack on the level of Kojima and I am glad I did not spend a red cent on this loser with his delusions of grandeur and his trash writing.

I still don't understand why SEELE decided to go full retard and launch an attack on NERV HQ during an angel attack or what the hell they were trying to do with that Jet alone episode and shouldn't need a wiki to tell me it was a potential replacement for Eva units. As they don't foreshadow the mass produced EVAs at all.
 
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Finished the Devilman series with Devilman Lady. A decent show with decent gore. Best thing about it are the human characters/conflicts, ironically. The majority of its runtime is freak-of-the-week monster fights, but the latter half descends into (somewhat convoluted) apocalypse shit. The climax was one of the most batshit insane, yet unique and interesting things that I've seen in anime... but it gets ruined by a final episode which undoes everything and returns the world to a "relative status quo".

In the finale Devil Lady gets fucked into hell. No, that isn't hyperbole or even a typo, she literally get fucked into hell.
 
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