Sexual Competition

A weird thought: I can't help but feel that harem shows would be a lot more interesting if there were multiple guys. It feels exceedingly artificial and contrived for the heroines to orbit a single dude, with all other guys being there for comic relief or otherwise asexual. It feels more organic if girls 'drop out' of the harem once they realize they don't have a chance, and hook up with other dudes.

While Evangelion's not a harem, the plot would've made more sense if Asuka wasn't remotely attracted to Shinji. Sure, he could lust after her, but it'd all be from her side - She'd be unattainable, because she'd rather fuck someone more her speed. When she sort-of reciprocates or plays hard-to-get, it feels oddly false. It would've been truer to life if she didn't see him as a sexual entity, or if she went "Ew, get the fuck away from me" and absolutely meant it.

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get back to the kitchen

You are a failure.

I mean, I can't see the 'rejected' girls pining after the protagonist forever. That just doesn't happen.

Yea, I also would prefer isekai without anybody getting teleported to another world.

Isn't that sort of missing my point? It can still be an isekai series, but the protagonist isn't the only dude isekai'd and the other guys aren't caricatures. Imagine if Arifuerta had more verisimilitude, and Hajime was treated the way someone disliked by the class would actually be treated.

He'd come back to find that his childhood friend had already hooked up with the hero, and she was secretly relieved that he was gone because he'd been such an emotional weight on her. And she'd be like "Oh, I'm glad you're alive, but while you were gone, things changed a lot."

I absolutely agree. NGE did near-irreparable damage to an entire generation of young men by teaching them that they could be their shy, pathetic, selfish selves with almost no genuine improvement, and get a beautiful, fiery redheaded young woman who is AKCHUALLY super self-conscious and extremely depressed and needs a knight in shining armor to come save her. The problem is that Shinji has a giant fucking robot (that he doesn't even want to pilot!) and is given the keys needed to save or end humanity. Regular losers don't get those opportunities.

What we have now is a group of men who don't want to self-improve and have an entitlement complex. They DESERVE to have women come along and see the "real person" that the young man is, and "draw it out" by being intentionally difficult. They believe it's their God-given right to have a woman who understands them on some emotional level, completely oblivious to what women want. A girl like Asuka needs someone who is steadfast, secure, and stable, not a crabpuff weenie like Shinji. Unfortunately, Shinji is Onno's self-insert, and therefore he automatically gets the girl.

I completely agree with your opinion, OP. Shinji needs to see that other, better people will easily catch Asuka's attention, especially given that she's both a genius and a prodigy at such a young age, and her bar of expectations would be exceptionally high. If NGE wanted to actually be a mecha deconstruction with mature, realistic human themes, then Asuka, who is half-white and automatically superior to every Japanese in the show, wouldn't reduce herself to dating a meager little Asian boy unless he had the confidence and charisma to overpower his pathetic genetics. As we all know, Shinji has neither confidence nor charisma. He's a habitual masturbator, both physically and philosophically.

If Shinji, and by extension the viewer, had seen Asuka sleeping with whomever she chose EXCEPT Shinji, perhaps both would have found motivation to improve.

I thought the point of Evangelion was that Shinji didn't really want anything to do with this shit. He was a kid with genuine problems, and it was deeply irresponsible to force this poor bastard into a hybrid organic-mechanical death machine.

Asuka shouldn't have been interested in him, because he was forced into this shit and only really wanted out. It was his conscience that forced him to stay. Like, if you don't approach a girl, she'll consider you a sexual non-entity anyway.

Frankly, I don't see him as Asuka's 'type' regardless.

What would be the fucking POINT of Asuka if she wanted to have nothing to do with Shinji? NTR fanservice, where you see her fucking someone else in the background?

I dunno, man. Maybe, as with the NERV techs and so on, it'd illustrate that everyone's got their own little drama to deal with? That mere proximity isn't enough to bring about attraction?