about halfway through the second episode it occurred to me just how few fucks the creators of this show give. absolutely none of the plot makes sense, probably on purpose as satire on the absurdity of shonen mecha shows. like, it has to be a joke that Shinji has zero experience at all and yet this shadowy multinational intelligence agency trusts him to be the first line of defense against supernatural apocalyptic destruction, right? as a non-weeb English-speaking anime naïf, I can only assume as much.
props also to the writers for blowing past the niceties of explication in favor of throwing the audience into the action without any clarification or orientation. about ten episodes in now and I barely know what’s going on beyond sweet vibes, Kabbalistic diagrams, “boom anime babes,” and everyone seeming very sad.
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