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I often can't believe some Japanese guy thought of this and was ok with making it. Like, really dude?
Then I think of some American guy who wrote the book "It".
Tbf the whole point of that movie is that Shinji is a horrible person who ends up totally broken due to his inability to even try and confront any of his demons.
Or he's a very traumatized child who has been thrust into an extremely unhealthy environment, and manipulated every step of the way, and that eventually breaks him. I'm not saying he's a great person, but it's pretty clear that he never stood a chance from the get-go. He still chose to do what he did in that scene, but it's not done in isolation with everything else he's been through.
[CW: child SA]
spoiler
JAPANESE CHARACTER AFTER JERKING OFF IN FRONT OF A COMATOSE GIRL: "God I'm so fucked up"AMERICAN CHARACTERS AFTER HAVING A CHILD GANGBANG: "This was totally a necessary scene"
pls cw
done
pls don't banish me to the corgi dimension
American author being interviewed about writing that scene: "I wrote that? Jesus I need to quit cocaine!"
Do people argue that that scene in It is necessary? Cuz I've never seen it included in any adaptation or reference (thank god)
Does that really happen in the anime? I watched the anime series (no movies) and I don't remember it at all thankfully.
It's in the End of Evangelion movie. It's not in the TV series, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't in the comic.
What comic? Eva wasn't based on a comic
This one.
The comic technically started release first, but didn't finish until like 2013. It has little differences throughout, and it's ending is pretty similar to EoE. If you are into the franchise enough to watch the rebuild movies, it's probably worth a quick read.
I cut things off at EoE. That and the series are a full story and I ain't need more.
I think cocaine wrote more of "It" than Stephen King did.
That novel would just be a collection of times that he did cocaine
tbh every time I worry I'm writing something that's too weird for people and everyone will think I'm weird for writing it I should probably remember that that scene went through a bunch of drafts and multiple rounds of editing before being published a bunch of times and the novel sold like hotcakes and spawned multiple film versions and stop worrying
I think the publisher assumed nobody would get to that scene cuz who the fuck is going to read that big of a book about a murderous clown?
The explanation I've always heard was that it was his response to otakus jerking off to anime characters. I.e. women who can't hurt you with rejection. This is who he sees them as.
From an article in which he is interviewed:
They lost it to China and the Soviet Union. But maybe losing the inter-imperialist rivalry hit them different.
The US specifically wanted to avoid the Soviets from entering the Pacific Front because they didn't want them having any possible claims to Japan and potentially having to split the land akin to Europe. Pretty quickly after the US occupation there was a sizable communist movement seeking to gain power through election where they expected the US to hold up their public statements of freedom and democracy. In the end though the US cracked down on the leadership and essentially destroyed the movement. Though pretty pathetic now, the Japanese communist party still receives a decent chunk of the vote, though obviously nothing to actually disrupt the neoliberal hell.
the US specifically asked the soviet union to enter the war in the pacific at the Yalta Conference
The admin was still under FDR at Yalta. Truman was on a very different page than FDR about the Soviets, which led to dropping nuclear weapons to end the war before Soviets could get more involved in the Pacific
Thanks. Didn't know this.
The Americans occupied them and rebuilt them into the neoliberal monstrosity they are today.
i think destroying the fleet of an island nation and blockading it was pretty major when japans armies were overseas
The difference is that Evangelion is actually good unlike anything King ever wrote
The Dark Tower series is fantastic. Also, you're in a definite minority. Steven King is well known as one of the greatest authors alive. He's wrote duds but much of his work is regarded as great, like Pet Cemtary, Christine, and Salems Lot.
Your argument would be more persuasive if you knew how to spell his name :)
He has a book On Writing that is very, very good. He goes through his writing process, discusses other authors, gives advice of the trade, etc. He openly admits he's merely okay/good at writing and that there's eons of better authors than him. He is being humble, but he's not the greatest writer alive by any means. He talks a lot about luck, name recognition, etc. that continue to propel him, and other shit ass authors, ahead.
Dark Tower rules. I still think Complete/Uncut The Stand is, bar none, the best shit he's ever written without a doubt. I haven't got to Fairy Tale yet tho.
I get that you have fond memories of reading his books but "one of the greatest authors alive"? Really? It's horror schlock for teenagers, it's fun but it's not this groundbreaking literature you're making it out to be.
Lol. The dude literally defined a genre. Why do you think he's got like a dozen movies made based on his books and several TV series?
King is hit or miss but by sheer quantity he has more great books than many writers in their whole catalogue