She just need someone to talk about her problems with her mother. Also what the fuck was her mother's problem with her...

They all needed someone to talk to. That's the tragedy of it all.

She just need to smile more

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Oh, forgot to include: but in general, all the major characters have existing mental health issues that get made much worse by trauma that happens at some point, either in the backstory or the story proper.

The only attempt that didn't secretly go just as planned and it was a revision of Yui's experiment. This woman presumably learned what happened to Yui and was so sure she'd solved it in one year that she insisted on also being her own specimen.
Or I just want her to be Asuka-like. The source is Asuka's father talking to Kyoko's doctor, I don't really feel like I know she wasn't dragged kicking and screaming to an eva core.

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>I don't really feel like I know she wasn't dragged kicking and screaming to an eva core.
I hadn't considered this possibility before, but good point. Something about the fact that Asuka had been selected as a pilot at such a young age, so soon after the Kyoko contact experiment, did always seem a bit weird.

>This woman presumably learned what happened to Yui and was so sure she'd solved it in one year that she insisted on also being her own specimen.
Probably also worth noting that a recurring topic of discussion between characters throughout the series is the arrogance of humanity when building things and thinking they know everything.

Peppa Pig remake looks awesome

>so soon
there's no indication of timeframe in the show iirc

err, none outside of just the year, i should say

She still looks roughly the same age, so presumably within about a year; I'd call that "so soon" in the grand scheme of things.

what i mean was there are no pre-contact experiment flashbacks to judge how soon after yui's she went ahead with her attempt, only the dates of their death narrow it down to sometime within 2004-2005

and does within a whole year really seem so soon for a global conspiracy who's higher echelons already know how these things work? remember it's all a pretense, there's no selection process or screening or anything.

My assumption is that Kyoko elected for the experiment. They called her the system’s advocate. It’s possible the program was about to be altered or scrapped and she put herself in to prove it works. I’d also assume that Asuka was summarily selected because once inside, they lacked the expertise to remove Kyoko’s fragmented soul. That also would explain why they never could do cross experiments with other pilots like that one episode where Shinji and Rei switch units in a trial.

>I’d also assume that Asuka was summarily selected because once inside, they lacked the expertise to remove Kyoko’s fragmented soul. That also would explain why they never could do cross experiments with other pilots like that one episode where Shinji and Rei switch units in a trial.
Maybe? There's a lot of details that are never really made clear, but there is mention made of re-configuring the Eva's cores for other pilots; presumably that basically amounts to swapping out which soul jar is appropriate for which pilot. Mention is made of this not having been done yet when Kaworu is assigned as Eva-02's new pilot, which implies it is possible with Eva-02. If there's a reason cores can be swapped between 00 and 01 but not 00 and 02 or 01 and 02, we don't know. Really there's a lot we don't know, like exactly what the deal is with Eva-00.

She deserves a champion.

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>a global conspiracy who's higher echelons already know how these things work
They really don't. It still took another decade to successfully activate an Eva and depending on teenagers to pilot wasn't even what they wanted, they switched to dummy plugs when they were viable.

Pay attention to the Director's Cut version of episode 23. Post Contact Experiment, Asuka's mom no longer recognized Asuka as her daughter because she thought a doll was Asuka. Asuka's mom then killed herself with the doll because her soul was broken.

In EoE, Asuka's mom (whose soul is in the robot) eventually recognizes Asuka.

Unit 00 didn't really go smoothly either.

We'll never truly know what mainline Kyoko is like. The only data we really have on her personality outside of the main series is fucking Raising Project, where she's a near idiot-savant womanchild.

>If there's a reason cores can be swapped between 00 and 01 but not 00 and 02 or 01 and 02, we don't know.
there's no core-swapping being done in that ep 14 experiment, it's possible because of rei and 00's unique circumstances. the stated point is to test how they can sync with the other, not how they can sync with the same core in a different frame.

>like exactly what the deal is with Eva-00.
it's not explicitly confirmed in writing but given lines in ep 14, 23 and 25 its a safe working assumption that it's a fragment of rei I

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>. Also what the fuck was her mother's problem with her, i still don't get it.
She was a bitch

I think the classified info that came with the game confirmed it's loliRei's soul in Unit 00.

>there's no core-swapping being done in that ep 14 experiment, it's possible because of rei and 00's unique circumstances. the stated point is to test how they can sync with the other, not how they can sync with the same core in a different frame.
>it's not explicitly confirmed in writing but given lines in ep 14, 23 and 25 its a safe working assumption that it's a fragment of rei I
In that case, I can see how Rei could sync with Yui (until Yui decides NOPE in ep 19 or whichever it was), but it's less clear why Shinji would be able to sync with Rei I. Unless it's the close blood relation" angle it works on rather than it being a parent/child bond like it's always implied to be before.

A dumb bitch

The episode that launched a thousand weight gain and inflation images.

i figured there'd be something like that too yeah. desu i prefer to ignore supplemental material that comes after the fact, a work should stand on its own and you avoid having to reconcile errors like chronicle saying misato's usp is a .45 when it has .40 markings in one ep and fictional features in eoe

>but it's less clear why Shinji would be able to sync with Rei I
Well, he can't really, it goes berserk like immediately.

Okay there's that, but it did at least activate, which Eva-01 didn't even do when Yui decided NOPE.

it smelled akagi blood

She knows shinji is looking

Hmm. Okay, this does explain why Ritsuko was so sure Eva-00 was attacking her during that test.

If Shinji's experience is like Rei's first activation when 00 went berserk the exact same way, 00 is aggressive and invasive with visitors. It could know about Shinji from reading Rei and be at least curious because it's almost Rei, too.

But no way is this Rei I. They both reappear later and they're too distinct from eachother.

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it talks with her voice in ep 25. plus when yui appears to shinji inside leliel she has long hair at first, can't take their vision appearances as strictly literal

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This scene was probably my favorite one of the entire series.

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Armisael had the high voice with reverb, too. I took it more as the spooky voice for Reis.

had shinji been a chad, could he have saved everyone or would he have to choose whom to save?

Whatever you give to that sort of person, she won't appreciate it or she'll punish you for providing it. So it doesn't matter.

I’ll give it anyway.

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And you'll get nothing in return anyway.

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Every work has a world bible and animator errors are a thing.

she just needed kensuke's cock

she isnt old and jaded enough to give up on yet

She's a decently realistic example of someone who's sabotaging her own relationship just so she's "allowed" to kill herself out of loneliness.

>X just need someone to talk about her problems
That's just every EVA character.

>Holy shit enough about this stupid fucking show
NO! I want to post about best Eva girls for ten more years, at least!

You can only talk things out of you're just pretending to be retarded. EVA characters are past some sort of zero point (the taxi driver) where the rage has become a core part of their personality. Maybe someone like Misato or Kaji would stabilize in a normal situation but someone like Ritsuko would just fucking snap without warning one day.

Is this shit clearly communicated to the viewer or am I just retarded

I want to make love with Asuka so fucking bad bros

It's not. Anno went for surrealism and a lot of the details get lost on their way to the viewer.

And it still has all the regular animation and continuity errors, so we have the additional dimension of splitting hair about which details mean anything and which are accidents.

I'm sure at least some of it is intentional to get people talking cause Anno is a manipulative fuck. The only time NGE starts clearly communicating is when Asuka has one of her POV scenes and starts directly addressing the viewer.

good

I have.

at that point where she leaves to waste away she wasn't actually sabotaging any relationships, her self esteem falls to zero and she just mentally checks out