[EVA] Eva Manga Stage 74

[Furio Baroncini]

I totally agree with You EBJ, but there is nothing to be surprized of.

Both Anno and Sadamoto are facing the same "problems" from different
points of view, with different "attitudes".
But this does not means that one of them COULD be wrong or superficial.

.Ing_FBI


> Aside of that, it was a very good stage! Now that he's been able to leave 
> concessions to fans behind, Sadamoto hasn't produced any disappointing 
> advancement in the story. He's managed to build a very different Kaworu, 
> put him in a very different relationship with Shinji, use him to provide 
> insights denied by the tv series (both to us and the other characters), 
> and in this final stage he's managed to use him to put Shinji once again 
> in the appropriate condition to possibly start, if not complete, the 
> Instrumentality process, perhaps in a fashion that is even more 
> self-consistent than the original. Rather than being a metaphor for Anno's 
> relationship with reality, this is being presented as an actual matter of 
> interest for Shinji's character. I also liked very much the way Shinji 
> reflected about the various aspects of the situation, putting himself in 
> the same place as Kaworu by killing him yet doing this entirely for 
> himself (balancing the need to feel the guilt with the fear of it), 
> keeping in mind all things lost and left, and finally questioning the 
> worth of it all. That's much more active thinking than the tv character 
> would've been apt to express.
> It's also interesting to note how Asuka is both among the lost things (as 
> she was before?) and and the ones he wants to protect (a will he may 
> question, but which he expresses none the less), and how Rei too is among 
> things left to protect, even though his feelings about her are sure to be 
> mixed, after the revelations he's had about her.
>
> Excellent stage indeed, thanks for the translation. :D
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