>>4309328>makes it pretty obvious why you don't seem to like rebuild.Not sure I could’ve made that any clearer from the beginning. Unsatisfied at the very least. Also that bit about Asuka being based on a high school crush is unsubstantiated. If anything she’s a composite of Lady Kushana and Anne Shirley. The way I see it, Shikinami’s role is about finding life outside of Eva. To that end for the thesis of the movie to work, Asuka cannot find happiness within the conceptual framework of Eva. In this case that includes Shinji. Metaphorically it’s Anno acknowledging that he doesn’t have to be the ‘Eva guy’ anymore. And as far as her not moving on, she’s the one who comes to shinji unprompted first to confess her feelings and put it behind them. When she’s in the ripped plugsuit, it’s showing that she’s outgrown its use. She doesn’t need it to define her anymore. You got that part backwards. By admitting her true desire (wanting a family basically), she then can accept [redacted]’s care. The disappointing aspect for me is she was already living there anyway. Why does she have to fight ten billion skeleton robots to realize that shes already been living in her ‘place of belonging’ for the last 14 years? Guess she had to work out the last of her baggage first. I just find it clumsy.
