>>2829004Oh bullshit. You fans are losing your minds because she gained a personality in rebuild early on, rather than waiting until just before the end. They made her a little more kind and innocent, but still befuddled by human interaction. Rebuild Rei feels like the REAL intention for Rei.
Just because shes not an emotionless shell now doesn't make her any less worthy of the praise you give her blank-minded, Stockholm syndrome, abused child version in the original series.
She's still lost and hurt, but at least she has some fucking feelings without hours of runtime blowing by before you start to notice.
I find rebuild Rei much more endearing.
Claiming that anyone who disagrees makes someone "less of a fan," makes you a bigger faggot than hipsters claiming, "I liked that band BEFORE they were cool. Now they're just sellouts because they make enough money to feed their families."
Check yourselves, you shallow fucks - just like Shinji says - the version of Shinji that is in his heart is real. But so is the Shinji in Misato, Asuka, or Rei. Each if our ideas of who "Rei" is is a fall version of Rei. One is not more true than any other.
If you really love Eva for something more than fap material, take its lessons to hearth and understand what it's trying to say.
