[EVA] Sick Sadamoto (SPOILER !!!!, under your own responsability)

[Kami]

> I think
> there's a time and place to cut away, but in essence the scene - I
> think - is meant to differentiate between Sadamoto's Kaworu and Anno's
> Kaworu. In the anime, Kaworu is almost a hero. He's sympathetic and
> has all the answers and in the end becomes a martyr for humans.
>
> Conversely, Sadamoto's manga Kaworu is a touch more sinister and "basic".
>
> I wonder if this scene would have struck you as much had you not had
> the anime as a previous reference point...


No, it probably wouldn't have. I probably would have thought Kaworu to be
just another second-rated Evil!pretty-boy (how many of them have we had
already..? :D )... I would have hated him for kitten masacre, but I would
have been be much less disturbed.
...It's almost as if Sadamoto killed the kitten _and_ anime!Kaworu in one
scene :). And it /was/ shocking for me, if only for the reason that I've
read some fanfics where the authors made Kaworu a total bastard [mostly to
show him as an obstacle on Shinji's & Asuka's (or Shinji & Rei's) way to
eternal lurve... or something :)] and I laughed my head off over the
authors' blatant fanboyism. Imagine my "pleasant" surprise when Sadamoto
used exactly the same trick ^_^'...
Oh well, I got over it and started treating manga as just another fanfic
^^'. This way I can appreciate beautiful art and humour while ignoring the
plot holes and fanboyism :D.

...Actually I don't think that anime-Kaworu is that perfect :). He seems
ideal and sympathetic, because most of the time we see him through Shinji's
eyes. However, to anyone but Shinji (Ayanami & Seele, to be precise) he
seems to be rather proud and arrogant (in a cute, if oblivious way ;P). I
don't think he knew all the answers from the very beginning; perhaps he
found out all the answers only just before he died v_V...
...That was random. V. sorry. :)


>  In an odd way, it
> reminded me of Shinji's scene at the beginning of EoE. In both cases
> we have pre-conceived notions of the character, and in both cases they
> do something unexpected that *seems* to be against what we had
> otherwise anticipated.

Actually, Shinji's "scene" didn't shock me that much.  He was not exactly in
his right mind back then, and it's not as if he really did something
particularly horrible...^^'

~Kami

OT: BTW, have anyone read System of Romance by Sadamoto & Takaha Mako..?