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

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, V V <frumious99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The funny this is, you guys dump on "Angelic Days" for being the same mawkish, self-serving, self-medication style narrative that "ReDo" is, you just prefer that one because it was fan made and thus in some warped capacity, "one of us".
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> look, regardless of the porn scenes, I would oppose it, because it's just....telling fans what they want to hear, with a self-serving "happy" story.

     "[Akadot]: Earlier today you said that you were trying to broaden
the genre by giving Eva a sad ending. Does the sameness of much of
today's anime bore you?
     Kazuya Tsurumaki: First of all we didn't use a sad ending to
annoy fans. When they're upset, that really bothers us. Personally, I
think a happy ending is fine, but not if it is achieved too easily.
That's no good."
http://web.archive.org/web/20040108034018/www.akadot.com/article/article-tsurumaki3.html

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gwern