[EVA] Gender analysis in the series, vis a vis Asuka and Misato

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:15 PM, EB <marestes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:53 PM, V V <frumious99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> After the ReVolution, we're going to scale it back
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> I wonder who this "we" is, if you're the only one who posts under REMOlution
> of eva, even going into those sites you have forsaken to try and garner
> followers, which din't really happen AFAIK, next time you post there, your
> IP and posts will be treated as spam.
>
>
>> Now all fanfiction isn't bad - I actually kind of like Eva R -
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>
> But only because Grant vouched for it. It might be funny for you to know
> that at some point, People were wondering if Sadamoto himself drew explicit
> art of Eva (under the name of YS11)

Actually, I could believe that. The initials ('Yoshiyuki Sadamoto')
certainly are suggestive, although I don't know why the 11 (the only
anime ref that comes to mind is the movie _They Were Eleven_, which
while pretty good, I doubt Sadamoto has it in mind).

And you're right: I tracked down this website that has some
(http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/index?tags=ys11) and they are
remarkably like what I remember of Sadamoto's style from _Der Mond_.
They're a bit 'harsher' for lack of a better word, but still very
close, and none of them are *so* explicit that there would be
repercussions.

I doubt that we'll ever have proof - they could be a prank or homage -
but I'm willing to say better-than-even.

-- 
gwern