i’m just saying, if the bulk of your evangelion viewing/fandom experience puts kaworu, shinji, and kawoshin at the very Center of Importance, and in the process you neglect the other thirteen characters – especially the women – or put them on a semi-relevant backburner where all their nuance is lost or glossed over unless their narrative somehow implicates kaworu or shinji, no offense but what the fuck are you doing.
like i don’t know when the fandom will sit down and question why kawoshin has become instantly analogous to evangelion, or why “OK BUT when’s the white haired boy gonna show up??” is the textbook viewing experience for most new fans, or why f/f queer subtext (ritsuko/maya, asuka/mari) is only mentioned in passing, or why 70% of the meta devotes itself to relatively minute dialogue between kaworu and shinji to the blissful oversight of everything else, etc. call it what you want but a sausage fest is a sausage fest, especially when one half of that sausage is an interesting – but ultimately ancillary – love interest with 17 minutes of screentime in a 26ep series + feature film, pitted against 13 other characters (more than half of which are girls/women) with fully realized, multiform development arcs that are blatantly mischaracterized or oversimplified.
Uhm. I’m a bit confused, but since when is Kawoshin/Kaworu the biggest focal point for the Evangelion fanbase? Yeah maybe here on Tumblr it is but for a reason. Because you literally can’t mention Kaworu in any other site without getting attacked, with both sexist and homophobic comments. Tumblr is the safest place for Kaworu, and Kawoshin fans. Please don’t ignore this.
And people here like Kaworu/Shinji/Kawoshin A LOT. Yeah. So what?
Maybe Kaworu just seems like a meaningless character that was only in one episode for 13 minutes or so to you but to someone else he might have been the most charming character of the whole series. Why should we judge/shame fellow fans for what they like??
Basically what cherrypink said PLUS, talking about oversimplifying? How much of the male eva fanbase simplifies [and in turn insult] Asuka into a one-dimentional sexualized tsundere “waifu”. To reverse this issue I’ve seen many male fans/homophobic fans put all of the importance onto what they see as the “harem” trio and Shinji, while not even bothering to analyze the interactions between Shinji and Kaworu for the brief times they’re together. They [k & s] can literally say ‘love’ and blush around each other but all you get from fans is ‘um you’re reading too much into this there’s literally nothing there.’ While in turn they see Eva as a harem anime and see Asuka and Shinji’s abusive natures as normal or a non-issue, Its a two way street. If you want to talk oversimplification and acceptance its about being able to understand a series and its characters objectively, not pick and choose what makes you comfortable and sweep mental health issues/bisexual implications and such under the rug.
Just because you see Kawoshin fans as not caring enough about the female characters doesn’t mean we don’t at all, or don’t think about them on deeper levels and respect them. Do we have to write analytic essays and draw them everywhere to prove we do?
