Hey, Evafags

Howdy. Have any of you talked with people about Evangelion in person, or tried to introduce them to it?

Why did you do it? How did it go?

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I dont leave home

Imagine watching this at 14, how traumatized you would be

I watched it at 14 and related to the characters too hard to be traumatized

I've told several people irl aboit Eva. None of them were interested in the premise.

I watched it at 13. I was already pretty fucked up from the internet, so it didn't really phase me.

I watched it at 14 and thought it was shit.

too deep for western fools. my friends didn't get it, so didn't like it

Tried showing it to two people who don't really watch TV or anime but are somewhat hikkis. Neither has finished it but both say they're interested. Pretty sure they just think I'm retarded. I have one older friend who says they really liked it in early 00's but hasn't seen it since then and can't talk about it in detail. Then there's my brother who thought it was retarded and seemed to be expecting normal shounen shit and never watched the movie.

Watched it at 10. That scene where rei got penetrated by the light tentacle thing gave me a permanent tentacle fetish. No trauma though... I think.

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Over time, I came to see the artist's message for what it really was, and I thought it was a felt genuine, sensitive, and touching thing.
No other work makes such a concentrated effort . Sure, plenty of 19th, 18th, 17th century authors wrote stuff on similar subjects, but they were writing for themselves.
It came to light, that Anno really wanted to move people into action, and it was touching.
But if I told people how I felt about it, and then introduce them to it, they'd enter the show with the worst preconceptions and expectations.
So, all who've I've shown it to, have quickly dismissed it. I feel like it's a "you're damned if you do, damned if you don't situation" - I think it takes people with a certain amount of sensitivity, and awareness of self, to keep going into the show, but as in most of consumerist ( escapism ) history, most people lack both.

quads so close. nevertheless, im surprised how much people around me don't like or have even heard of eva.

Introduced a friend of mine to Evangelion. He watched the entire thing on his own and came to the proper conclusion that Asuka is best girl.

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O fuck, OP here, didn't expect this thread to still be here.

Most of my friends are seasoned weebs that watch anime, yet literally all of them say that Eva is lame, which sucks cause I've gone out of my way to tell them how special Eva is for me.

To clarify, my closet weeb friend adamantly substantiates that Rising of Shield Hero is better than Evangelion, and that Evangelion memes aren't even that good (really drove a knife to my heart).

I mean, to each his own, but for fucks sakes, I just wanna be able to discuss this stuff with the people I know and love, ya feel?

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cursed introduction to eva

closet weebs are the worst. I know a guy who went to a weeb concert with me before telling me he used to own figures and shit months later. Then he watched the anime related to the concert and didn't say anything about it to me, probably thought it was dumb but afraid to say so. Seemed like someone who took Yea Forums consensus opinions (as if that exists) and thinks there's objectively good anime. Being afraid to discuss shit is the whole point of having a weeb friend.

>Most of my friends are seasoned weebs that watch anime, yet literally all of them say that Eva is lame, which sucks cause I've gone out of my way to tell them how special Eva is for me.
I generally tell my friends that it starts slow -- around 1-4 episode mark -- and picks up afterwards. It's hard to get over that hump for some people.

>I mean, to each his own, but for fucks sakes, I just wanna be able to discuss this stuff with the people I know and love, ya feel?
Yes.

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told my friend group that the peak of the medium, evangelion, was to be added to netflix in the summer. i started my rewatch with the sephirotic rips and they watched the shitflix subs. one of them thought it was amazing and wants to watch EoE with me soon. he also knows that misato is a best. two others thought gurren lagann was better but respect eva for how it shaped anime as a whole. another is an ironic weeb and wanted to watch catch up on jojos poorly written adventure instead like a fucking retard.

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I would only introduce it to them if they've watched anything decent aside from the big three.
I would tell them that it has interesting characters and good visual storytelling.

>jojos poorly written adventure

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when I first was introduced I was in highschool and some one had it on VHS. Then I tried getting others even today to watch it and everyone goes on and on about the newest stuff thats out there and not give it a chance.

jesus I thought I was the only one who had a hard time showing friends eva. 2deepforthem

Eh my response was the same as everyone elses, Wtf did I just watch?!

Funny you should say that, the friends I have that are into JoJo also are into Evangelion.

Perhaps I lucked out?

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>jojos poorly written adventure
holy kek

I tried to shill it to the vet once.
Poor guy's trying to give my cat vaccines and i'm talking his ear off about it.
In my defence, he asked me what i liked to watch on TV.

I also wore a kawoshin shirt to my niece's first birthday. My parents are extremely homophobic so they made me change it.

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my friend keeps telling me to watch this shit but wont tell me what its about

I had a conversation recently with an old friend of mine. He's a gym bro type, and has caught it on netflix. He said it was a total mindfuck, but I think he kinda got what it was going for.
Since I had a few beers I let my power level slip and ended up talking about gundam and ideon.
He recommended me my hero academia.

Lmao

Not your blog, faggots.

Watched it in high school. Recommended it to a friend of mine and he watched it too. I think that's about the time that everything started going downhill

>Jojos poorly written adventure
My fucking sides

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I was introduced to it by a friend in high school. I'd heard of it beforehand but his recommendation was what made me watch it. 3 years later he transitioned into a girl and moved away, and I did not talk to him (her?) since.

I introduced it to my boyfriend, he didn't like it so I broke up with him.

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I introduced it to three of my bros and they all loved it. One of them remains one of my closest friends today and the other two have gone cold and distant, slightly autistically.