[EVA] Re: Eva Manga Stage 84

[Anuraag Agrawal]

>
> Is that Ghost Misato saying so, narration over her corpse, or her
> dying thoughts?
>

It was a caption bubble and not speech or thought, so I'd say ghost is
the closest (or her last thoughts as she heads to heaven maybe).

Speaking of which the cover was naked (angelic?) Misato and Kaji embracing.

--AA

On Tuesday, January 5, 2010, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Anuraag Agrawal <anuraaga at gmail.com> wrote:
>> First page again, wow.
>>
>> Stage 84: Agreement
>>
>> Intro: Asuka, counterattack.
>>
>> Scene: Outside, in the midst of battle
>> Asuka: Grrraah!
>> *Asuka stabs an Eva dead with a progressive knife*
>> Asuka: That's 4.  Next!
>>
>> Scene: Inside Nerv headquarters
>> *Soldiers walk in on Misato.  Misato has a grenade pin in her mouth and
>> shows the shocked soldiers the grenade.  It explodes*
>> Misato (dead): Kaji, this was the right thing to do, right?
>
> Is that Ghost Misato saying so, narration over her corpse, or her
> dying thoughts?
>
>> Scene: Cage
>> Shinji: No way, this can't be happening.  I made a promise with Misato to go
>> and save Asuka.  I made a promise yet I can't move Eva...that's no good.
>> Move.  Mother, move.  Move, mother!!!
>> *Eva-01 activates, breaking out of the bakalite and crushing some nearby
>> soldiers*
>> Shinji: Mother...
>>
>> Outro: Eva awakens!  Shinji and Asuka's destiny is...
>>
>> Guess next month will be a pretty big month for seeing how this is going to
>> play out with respect to instrumentality.
>>
>> --AA
>
> Let's not be overoptimistic. An entire stage could be eaten up with
> Asuka defeating the harpies and them suddenly reviving. 'Outro: Mass
> Production Series reborn! Asuka's plan...?' And certainly then another
> stage could be eaten up with Shinji freaking out and some ancillary
> material from other POVs.
>
> (That said, I'm a little torn about Misato's death. On the one hand,
> I'm bothered by the echoes of WWII: grenade suicide, especially on
> Okinawa, was one of the standard methods. On the other hand, it's a
> more active and badass death than simply being fatally wounded,
> bleeding out on the floor, and then being blown up by the JSSDF. On
> the gripping hand, is a heroic death really appropriate to NGE?)
>
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> gwern
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