@chrisprice@DamanMills@PrimeVideo still, youre just theorizing and what has the matrix to do with this lol. the fact that between kaworu and shinji were homoromantic implications is still true, kaworu remains a idealized version of shinji himself, not related or half-brothers; hes an angel
@chrisprice@DamanMills@PrimeVideo i mean yeah, some of this is true. the antichrist thing is obviously a known thing in anime and him being sent by seele, however the fuyutsuki plotline is a whole different thing? and to my knowledge, i dont ever recall seeing gendo "find" kaworu? -
@chrisprice@DamanMills@PrimeVideo theyre not silblings/half siblings. kaworu is an angel from adam and had nothing to do with yui/gendo. they werent long childhood friends, so i dont see where the westermarck effect applies. eitherway, what would that change from the fact that Kaworu had homosexual implications?
@chrisprice@DamanMills@PrimeVideo was a lot more romantic, but Anno did tone it down a little bit, saying as they were supposed to skinny-dip in a river, but he rather sticked with a bath, since he felt like it was a bit too much so suddenly. He does say though Satsukawas atmosphere was still there.
@chrisprice@DamanMills@PrimeVideo he obviously never called him queer-coded, because they didnt speak like that in the 90s. anno has said in an interview with june (an yaoi magazine btw) that the other person who worked on the episode (Satsukawa) wanted the episode to be more homoerotic and their original script-