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So B is back and I have no idea what is going on lmao. Kidnapping, blackmail, genetically engineered birdman, and moar conspiracy abound.

Since @majestic mentioning Ekkusu got me wanting to rewatch Devilman, I went through the other anime that I watched on Netflix. I thought I'd mention a few I haven't seen talked about here yet. Cagaster of an Insect Cage: CGI abomination, do not watch. BNA: Absolutely insane, in a pretty good way. Not too much, if any, CGI from what I remember. Main characters are a confused half-animal girl and an edgy Wolfman. DIO is also a snake. Baki: Martial Arts Gym Gods. Pretty ugly and really stupid. Dorohedoro: All CGI and real uncanny valley hours. A shame, because the manga is great. If you can get past the CGI worth it, if not just give up. Hi Score Girl: CGI love story between two socially challenged kids who play Street Fighter 2. B the Beginning: Some weird **** I half remember about conspiracies and genetic engineering. I haven't seen season 2, but season 1 didn't make me want to kill myself. I've already recommended Beastars, Great Pretender, and Carole & Tuesday, but I'll do it again. Devilman Crybaby is an eternal recommendation. Anyways I guess it's season 2 of B. Let's see if I lose my mind.

Is this about Australia, China, or India?

Is it now? Guess I know what I'm watching next.

What are yall talking about? There's never been any live action anime adaptations produced by Netflix.

Huh. Well if part 7 was a retelling of part 1 and part 8 was a Mashup of parts 3+4 (with a reference to 2), I guess that means JoJoland could be a reference to 5 or 6. Either way if it tracks with every other part of JoJo it's going to be completely insane.

The rebuild movies. Sarex and I enjoyed it, Bartimaeus and majestic hated it. Especially Anno's waifu. Oh ho. Soon all of us will have seen the sheer insanity that is DIO.

Well I might not watch Utena because I found out something I wouldn't enjoy. You see

I think in many cases the answer to the acknowledgement of someone as a person (with personal bonds and all that jazz) can be "I don't care, **** them". Rush Limbaugh is a man who contributed to making a lot of lives hell and made millions doing so, when I think of all the people I've known who got kicked out of their homes or suffered abuse by their parents because ol' Rush was telling them how teh gheys were abominations, it's hard to give him anything but scorn. I'll fully admit to saying that empathy is conditional, and I think anyone who tries to say otherwise is lying to themselves. You will be glad when people you think are horrible kick the bucket.

I dunno, I like utter lunacy and surreal cluster****s such as most of David Lynch's films while you and @Bartimaeus do not. That's pretty much what I got from Evangelion, both the original series + EoE and the Rebuild. I've just accepted that I am a very weird guy and my taste would drive some people insane. To me the biggest weakness of Rebuild is the CGI, it looks awful and the CGI robot battles could have been taken out with insignificant losses. The second biggest is that I don't think there really was a coherent plan and the writing team changed goals every movie. For example I believe that your most hated character, Mari, was initially intended to take the piss out of waifu stuff but ended up changing roles until she became an insert for Anno's real life wife. Which I guess shows us how the waifu is inescapable, none of us are free from the curse of the waifu and we will end up turning our own partners into waifu/husbando inserts. Well that got weird. Anyways I think the Rebuild starts out OK, then dives down to meh then OH MY GOD! territory, and rebounds into something that is back to OK. It's hard for me to call 3.0 + 1.01 good because by god the CGI made me want to send myself to hell in order to kill Ronald Reagan, but I think it's OK and feels authentically Evangelion. If yall want to come ar me then well...

Those look the same to be me tbh. Like if a guy who made a millions peddling bull**** that got kids kicked out of their homes dies of lung cancer, **** it I'm glad he's dead. If there is a he'll his ass is roasting there.

They're undead and living unlife, while also being beyond death and mortality. Fantasy stuff is weird and contradictory.

I watched it like a year ago and it really is one of those movies that's so bad it ends up being funny. The premise is pretty much some talk radio fear mongering put into a script, the effects are horrible, and the actors are pretty much asleep. If it wasn't for Sylvester Stallone I would have thought it was some money laundering scheme or some vanity project. Though I guess it could still be that lmao.

Oh come on, if you can sit through Discovery you can deal with this. Do you really want to miss out the cgi army of headless nude female bodies Gendo unleashes to

But you'll miss the part where Shinji gets shot in the head and patched up by a country doctor!

If I was hiding someone from the feds, I would simply not publicly declare it to a major media outlet.

Huh. He directed Shin Godzilla and the sets we saw in the anti-universe did look like that so maybe.

Well the rebuild series was meant to be a revision of Evangelion so I think that's the point. While it could have been anyone who got Gendo involved with Yui and the....whatever the hell the weird ass techno-religious babble stuff was, it was Mari. Given that the idea of her was to destroy Evangelion, I think they were angling to have another character who had been there at the beginning and had some understanding of the techno-religious babble instead of another traumatized child soldier pilot. Just as likely, they could have been flying by the seat of their pants and just made it up as they went along. I guess beyond that though Mari is there to show Shinji how getting a gf will mean he doesn't need to worry about giant robots, monsters, and can live with depression without going catatonic. Which makes the theory that Mari was an insert of Anno's wife seem more plausible. In which case bold move to make your actual wife waifu bait.

Imagine your power being to turn people into little kids and getting your ass beat by a little kid. Lmao.

Oh so you've gotten around to Alessi? Has he encountered Jotaro yet?

Yeah, like Pen Pen starting a family, Kaworu and Shinji playing piano together, and Aoba rejecting humanity and killing Makota with his space ripper stingy eyes.

Yeah, she shows up in the photograph in 3.33 and in the Gendo memories in 3.0 + 1.01. What makes Mari very different than the other pilots is that she actually wanted to pilot the Evas out of free will, while the others were forced into it or built for it. I think they tried to show this early on with the singing, beast mode, and boob fixation as both more knowledgeable about Evas and more carefree about fighting monsters but all of that can be read as fanservice for mecha pilot waifu.