Rei Ayanami Character Analysis – Evangelion
Rei Ayanami Character Analysis – Evangelion
Phil’s Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH0Uuf24pO89Hg6YqBk5XAw
Text Sources :
1. pg 3, Yamato Nadeshiko – https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt9tk5w5d5/qt9tk5w5d5.pdf?t=o94tes
2. China Doll Stereotype – https://books.google.com/books?id=CtcBldNB24kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
3. Sadamoto on Rei’s Design – https://www.animeclick.it/news/36125-milano-manga-festival-reportage-dei-sadamoto-days
4. Translation of Rei’s Book by HonestPhil – https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxBlx2LjBS0ZQlF5ZzU4N2xyN2c
5. Ningyo have souls – http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-06/japanese-dolls-souls-return-to-heaven-at-shinmeisha-shrine/7695414
6. Ningyo Kuyo – http://wordpress.tokyotimes.org/ningyo-kuyo-a-japanese-doll-funeral/
7. Kokoro definition – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BF%83
8. “Oedepis complex” – Hideaki Anno Quote – http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/04/14-1/evangelion-creator-hideaki-anno-discusses-rei-versus-asuka
9. Oedepis the King – https://genius.com/Sophocles-oedipus-the-king-full-text-annotated
11. “The characters are so sick!” – Hideaki Anno quote -https://www.shmoop.com/interpretation-of-dreams/chapter-5-section-d-summary.html Summary of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
https://www.aoianime.hu/evangelion/index.php?page=interanno
12. “Given up on otaku” – Hideaki Anno quote
Fujie 2004 – Page 98 -http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/evangelions-anno-gives-up-on-escapist-otaku-in-interview/
13. Evangelion Store Website – https://www.evastore.jp/
14. Rei Ayanami Expy – http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReiAyanamiExpy
15. Eva and Otaku Culture -http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/2009/Galbraith.html
16. Hikikomori – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912003/
Video Sources:
1. Bootay-licious Rei Cosplay – https://youtu.be/bf6q749nxOc
2. Evangelion Tokyo Store – https://youtu.be/T60nOIRphMo
3. Animator Expo – https://animatorexpo.com/
4. Yamato Nadeshiko Drama – https://youtu.be/LpZ4B2u5iQY
5. Broken Blossoms Film – https://youtu.be/GNzYWG5FTmk
6. The Making of the Japanese Kokeshi Doll – https://youtu.be/3p4SBhq-6Kc
7. Doll Burning Ceremony – https://youtu.be/FXW4EitbDhA
8. Rei Figure – https://youtu.be/EAomclIjl68
9. Japanese men locked in their bedrooms for years – https://youtu.be/sxYs2Pv86WA
10. Hikikomori Loveless – https://youtu.be/wE1UIK85E3E
Music Sources:
1. Komm Susser Tod – https://youtu.be/DK4FTvaW_6Q
September 9, 2019 @ 7:16 pm
This is the best I’ve seen lately just brilliant
September 9, 2019 @ 7:21 pm
Tbh, I don’t really think moe is something that’s killing anime. It’s been there since the beginning. Shows like Macross and the original Gundam have characters like Shammy and Fraw Bow who perfectly fit the term moe. I do prefer older anime, but that’s mostly because of the artstyle.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:22 pm
Did asuka cause the holocaust??
September 9, 2019 @ 7:22 pm
Gave fma2003 a 10. Glad to see I’m the only one that likes that
September 9, 2019 @ 7:23 pm
Wowowowow… hold on up there cowboy. What’s Mitsuha doing in the compilation of trashy moe in the background near the end, while you lament the death of modern anime quality? Yeah sure, she’s cute, but she’s also a complex character from a movie that defies modern anime by being…. really fucking good.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:23 pm
We failed you Hideaki Anno…
September 9, 2019 @ 7:24 pm
Oí mate leave my mass production waifu in peace
September 9, 2019 @ 7:25 pm
Damn the girl at the beginning is THICC
September 9, 2019 @ 7:27 pm
Asuka was kind of a bitch but when it’s shown why you can’t help but understand and feel for her as well as praise her for overcoming her own demons as opposed to shinjis inaction.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:27 pm
"All the characters are so sick!" That was the first thing I thought when I finished EoE for the first time just last week. This was the big OG waifu war I’d heard so much about? Rei vs Asuka vs Misato? Why? They’re all touched in the head.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:28 pm
Ooooof
September 9, 2019 @ 7:30 pm
Anime really has turned to shit these days. The original Evangelion was a masterpiece. There was no need to remake it. Now days anime is all about moe and sex. What’s with pantie shots? I remember watching Kiddy Grade and thinking Eclair needs to invest in skirts that fit. Since her ass is always showing when she bends or moves. We came from deep and truly profound anime like Evangelion to mindless slice of life school girls showing their asses. I pretty much gave up on 2000s anime. It’s all jerk fodder.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:30 pm
Update – Sources for videos have been added to description!!
September 9, 2019 @ 7:30 pm
Rei is best girl. I can only imagine sleeping next to her, but i dont think there is any girls like her.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:31 pm
Greatest video opening ever
September 9, 2019 @ 7:33 pm
what song is being played in the background starting at around 11:58??? please help T-T
September 9, 2019 @ 7:34 pm
i’d love an asuka analysis video
September 9, 2019 @ 7:34 pm
Awesome video
September 9, 2019 @ 7:34 pm
Loved this video… Except for the end about Moe, you should have played Komm Susser Tod during that part!
Many of those shows are thoughtful with their designs, animation, and dialogue in a way that is only possible after Evangelion and some other shows. You don’t have to like the aesthetic but in this video you come off extremely dismissive.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:34 pm
Rei best girl don’t @ me
September 9, 2019 @ 7:37 pm
Rei would be the angel of death, Azrael, in those ghost-like moments before the deaths of others. Perhaps Shinji was supposed to die in the first episode, but perhaps he has a guardian angel ensuring that he survives.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:38 pm
Are they chanting "la colita, la colita"?
September 9, 2019 @ 7:41 pm
12:51 It feels like Eva’s audience didn’t really learn anything from Evangelion and its critique of the sexualization of women and young girls.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:41 pm
Its wylin how Gendo Ikari is just shackin up with a 14 yr old lmao
September 9, 2019 @ 7:42 pm
Lilith is from the black moon that crashed to Earth creating terminal dogma. Adam is the white moon, my guy.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:44 pm
Anno is such a hypocritical hack. "There’s nothing you can do" …?
That’s like Pablo Escobar saying in an interview, "I want nothing more than to stop the spread of these drugs and people’s dependence on them, but with these people, there’s nothing you can do."
September 9, 2019 @ 7:45 pm
Oí mate leave my mass production waifu in peace
September 9, 2019 @ 7:47 pm
14:35 – 15:26
*Fornite dances over Anno’s failed attempt at scolding people*
September 9, 2019 @ 7:47 pm
Lousiana state university aye? I too like swimming in the humidity
September 9, 2019 @ 7:47 pm
So in general, Asuka and Rei are worst girl.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:47 pm
Rei Ayanami is my girlfriend.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:48 pm
Wooooooooooow ❤❤
September 9, 2019 @ 7:49 pm
[sees MIA, ‘serious’, and ‘moe focused’]
I have some bad news for you as to why this is, buddy
September 9, 2019 @ 7:49 pm
what the fuck was that opening?
September 9, 2019 @ 7:51 pm
if you drink LCL, would a portion of instrumentality disappear? would that portion become one with the idiot who decided to drink LCL?
September 9, 2019 @ 7:53 pm
What’s to analyze? She’s a robot.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:56 pm
0:01 this is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in my life.
3:01, lol, that’s not the German anthem, at least not the anthem they have now
September 9, 2019 @ 7:58 pm
I always really loved that scene where Rei’s arm falls off. because its done without making a big deal of it. No one is surprised by it at that point – not the characters and not even the viewers. And you know you have an interesting movie when someone’s arm just falling off really isn’t that strange.
September 9, 2019 @ 7:59 pm
14:33 you made the show too good ?
September 9, 2019 @ 8:01 pm
0:00 it just keeps tumbling down
September 9, 2019 @ 8:03 pm
I would sub if you weren’t a fucking furry
September 9, 2019 @ 8:05 pm
NGE is depressing and the plot is bleak, characters suffer from emotional and psychological needs.
Only for one literal point across to people like Anno himself, depressed and easily drawn to escapism. That the human condition exists and wishing there would only be happiness is naive.
I’m not surprised that some of those same people found escapism in it, finding comfort in relatable characters and never moving on. Or found bodies and sex appeal to fawn over.
September 9, 2019 @ 8:06 pm
People but evangelion merch because they like rei? I just but merch because i think it looks cool
September 9, 2019 @ 8:08 pm
u kno when she smile she cure cancer
September 9, 2019 @ 8:08 pm
BTW i would not be suprised if in future someone make adaptation of Raptor Red as highschool teen comedy with cute girls who loves fresh livers.
September 9, 2019 @ 8:10 pm
I see you put NHK on your top 10 for the 2000s top10
I can see why
I binged it in a day when i found it on my MAL and remembered I put it there as a suggestion from Pewdiepie
I really liked it
I’d also like to ask if you’ve seen Steins;Gate and if you have, what is your opinion of it?
September 9, 2019 @ 8:11 pm
Imo Rei’s character arc in Rebuild was absolutely magnificent and even better than the already amazing original Rei arc.
September 9, 2019 @ 8:13 pm
Anyone got some recommendations for good older anime??
September 9, 2019 @ 8:13 pm
So this anime generation is more into colorful happy stuff that escapes reality over depressing realistic things which neon genesis was trying to represent?
September 9, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
kokoro