>>15791787I dare you to go ask around and probe them if they said they did watch it. I've found a lot of pretenders, people who only watched End of Evangelion, or skipped the last 2 episodes because it wasn't big monsters slamming into each other, or titillating teenage girl bodies.
As this guy posted
>>15791776 this is the most interesting part of the whole thing to me. I don't much care for anime, I don't actually own anything anime related beyond a small toy set containing everything in pic-related. There's a few things here and there that I liked but as I got older I grew cynical of the plastic toy feel to a lot of anime. Then Evangelion came along and subverted a lot of had been established before it. I liked the silent tension and implications compared to all the goofy and excessive exposition of other anime I had seen. Then we get to the dynamic between Anno, his creation, the industry, and the fanbase (which is fractured anyway) is extremely interesting to me and satisfying to watch.
It was a black sheep at the time and then everybody copied it. This is like a character study of anime-enjoyers as a whole, and it just happened to turn out that way. Much to Anno's disgust lmao.
