Personally I strongly hold the belief that anybody who likes Rei is a delusional socially incapable beta faggot who can't appreciate a well written character and prefers an emotionally stunted retard Asukachads rise up.
Gendo is good but Asuka and Shinji are far better explored.
Adam Nelson
the vanilla route is rei, she is shinji's choice, choosing escapism over painful reality every time rei is also reflection of the fan choice with all the media copies and otakuism over her image even when anno tries to inject anti-reism into rei 2 and rei 3 people just ignore the idea anime just can't be anti-anime
How is Rei the vanilla route? Aside from literally being his mom, Shinji is Rei's choice, not the other way around. She chooses him over Gendo at the end because he showed her genuine compassion. Asuka and Shinji's relationship is far more complex imo. Although to be srs for a second I think either one actually getting with Shinji in a romantic way would have been shit writing ALthough there is that one moment where it is implied Shinji and Asuka might have banged (or asuka attempted to atleast) cause they were both so fucking lonely
>either one actually getting with Shinji in a romantic way would have been shit writing welcome to jap literature 102!
Jacob Jackson
1st rei died
Christopher Bailey
>either one actually getting with Shinji in a romantic way would have been shit writing Correct that's also one of the reason 2.0 sucks
Cameron Collins
Not in media in general, no. But for anime they are. Besides characters like Gendo are not unique at all either. I think what makes Eva special is its presentation
If you wanna go really abstract he is simply the emotionally distraught villain who after losing his wife went pretty much mad.
I think Char from Gundam is a pretty good example in Gundam UC. He is charismatic and pretends to be doing it for the world (and here spacenoids) but truthfully he is just a broken man pretending to fight for ideals he once held. He doesn't have anything anymore in his life.
If you want to meme you can even compare him to fucking Obito who wants to destroy the world so he can live in a dreamworld with his waifu