Gainaxing from developing stages

[taotrooper]

So, apparently they're changing Asuka's last name for the Evangelion movies to 'Shikinami Asuka Langley'. I don't particularly feel outraged, even if I was one of the three non-horny-fanboy people who liked her at the time, but I just can't see the point? Why change it now, so many years later? My theory is that they wanted the fanbase to be arguing about the symbolism and meta behind the name change since they hadn't mindfucked the audience yet.

Besides, it's easier to pronounce Sohryu, WTF. Like the full name wasn't mouthful at it were!

a) Kaoru Kamiya

01; Do you like this character?
I do. I like how strong she grows up to be, and I find her atypical for the average damsel in distress in shounen (even if she does get kidnapped more than once in the series).

02; What name/s do you call this character?
Kaoru.

03; What image/color do you associate with the character?
Warm colors like pink and orange and yellow. But also dark blue and thick ribbons.

04; What image-song do you associate with this character?
Namida wa Shitte Iru for some reason, which is odd as fuck when you consider that it's sung by Kenshin's seiyuu.

05; What blood-type do you think this character is?
I-it's funny because in the webpage I opened to read the bloodtype descriptions, she's listed as an example XDDD She's an O, BTW. No big surprise.

06; Of all of the titles that this character appears in, what character do you like to put this character with?
KENSHIN. Duh. (I do think she could've had interesting chemistry with Sanosuke and Misao. Enishi? I don't see it at all)

07; What would you want to say to this character?
Don't hit the guy so much.

08; What do you want to do with this character:
I want her to teach me some kendo :D :D :D



b) Touya Kinomoto

01; Do you like this character?
Um, not even on my top five of favorite characters, but he's cool.

02; What name/s do you call this character?
Touya.

03; What image/color do you associate with the character?
Blue, how unimaginative. And aprons. And Usyagi costumes.

04; What image-song do you associate with this character?
I have none :o

05; What blood-type do you think this character is?
I seem to recall he was an O?

06; Of all of the titles that this character appears in, what character do you like to put this character with?
Yukito, of course.

07; What would you want to say to this character?
D-dude, CLAMP included you in their mindfuck. WHY DID CLAMP INCLUDE YOU IN THEIR MINDFUCK. WHY.

08; What do you want to do with this character:
Take him to an amusement park, and Yuki can come too. But he invites all the food and drinks.



c) Takashi Natsume

01; Do you like this character?
The series would be very boring to watch if I didn't. It pretty much centers around him.

02; What name/s do you call this character?
Natsume. Which is terribly confusing since that's also Reiko's last name. But blame it on the characters being so formal.

03; What image/color do you associate with the character?
Soft orange, grass swayed by wind.

04; What image-song do you associate with this character?
The openings. I R ORIGINAL.

05; What blood-type do you think this character is?
It says he's a B. I imagined him an A instead.

06; Of all of the titles that this character appears in, what character do you like to put this character with?
NO ONE. The guy needs some fucking friends, not friends to fuck. The fact all this fandom's fanworks is so set in shipping is giving me horrible HOLiC fandom flashbacks. However, in an ironic turn of events, I like him with Watanuki. But the meme said in the same series so.

07; What would you want to say to this character?
You're not a liar. I believe you see them.

08; What do you want to do with this character:
I'd take him and Nyanko to a picnic. Um, with a couple of youkai bodyguards just in case.



d) Maes Hughes

01; Do you like this character?
Not a top favorite either, but I like him.

02; What name/s do you call this character?
Hughes.

03; What image/color do you associate with the character?
I might have temporary amnesia about most of the anime by now, but I shall NEVER forget the pink pajamas.

04; What image-song do you associate with this character?
I don't have one, but U2's Window in the Skies is my general FMA song, and I always remember him among others when I listen to it.

05; What blood-type do you think this character is?
Probably an O or a B, or something.

06; Of all of the titles that this character appears in, what character do you like to put this character with?
His wife. Call me boring, but Gracia/Glacier/whatever spelling is the only one I can imagine with him.

07; What would you want to say to this character?
NO, I DON'T WANT TO SEE THOSE PHOTOS, YOU SHOWED THEM TO ME ALREADY.

08; What do you want to do with this character:
Set him on the Internet with a scanner and a digital camera, so he pesters people on Flickr and Facebook. He just needs the right media where others would comment on Elysia's cuteness! I bet he'd make macros with her pics, too.

Not tagging anyone, because I always forget anyway.

Comments

[fujurpreux.livejournal.com]

Set him on the Internet with a scanner and a digital camera, so he pesters people on Flickr and Facebook. He just needs the right media where others would comment on Elysia's cuteness! I bet he'd make macros with her pics, too.

Eso sería tan genial de ver. XD;

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Hace ya mucho tiempo creo recordar que alguien hizo el inbox de email ficticio de o Roy o de Ed, y los mails de Hughes siempre tenían attachments de más de un mega. Totalmente es de los que camwhorearía a su familia en los interwebs, es sólo que el pobre nació en el mundo y era equivocados.

[fujurpreux.livejournal.com]

LOL.

Luego lo googleo 8o

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

even if I was one of the three non-horny-fanboy people who liked her at the time
Who's the third one? O_o

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression not a lot of people liked or stood Asuka, from my experience. Then again, I liked/identified in some trait with all main characters but Rei.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I don't know the fandom well enough. I kinda like everyone in EVA myself :)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I haven't either, but I've seen some people bashing on her because she's a bitch. Man, I liked her because of that. Meanwhile, I have yet to see anyone picking on Rei.

Of course, this might be from the same ones who can't sympathize with Shinji as a main character. Give me the dysfunctional and realistic kids from EVA before the Gurren Lagann cast and the "epic GAR".

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

lol i think most people who like Asuka do so because she's a bitch. Or just because of how good at fighting she is (am thinking of a thread of people watching the series for the first time I saw recently). I have seen people picking on Rei, actually. I think a lot of characters in NGE bring out polarised reactions; kinda depending on how they relate with the particular of how messed up they are.

[sha-chan.livejournal.com]

I am :D Asuka was my favorite character \o\

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

^_^ My favourite's Misato, but Asuka's definitly amongst my favourite!

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Hallo!

(dios, no me digan que doblaje!mexicano!Asuka fue mi primera exposición a personajes con gratuitous fanboy [inserte idioma] O_O)

[sha-chan.livejournal.com]

Yo la verdad, creo que sí puedo decir eso XD Es más, creo que Asuka fue uno de los primeros pasos hacia mi amor al alemán XD

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

NO ONE. The guy needs some fucking friends, not friends to fuck.

This is true but I can't help myself from liking Taki/Natsume but I can't say I am diehard shipper of it.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Eh, I don't ship anything in XXXHOLiC, Mushishi, and Mononoke either. Even if I can see why people would ship something else in those. (What I don't get is when they only watch/read those genres for the buttsecks or romance, though.)

I... don't remember this Taki person? Is it a character introduced in Zoku?

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

Yes she is the girl who drew the circles

I don't ship anyone in Mushishi or Mononoke either but I guess in those series the characters don't stick around long enough for me to form the attachments and I can't see Ginko or the Medicine Seller settling down. That sort of takes away from their characters for me.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

No clue what you're talking about. I've only watched like three episodes of Zoku. I'm waiting for it to end so I can marathon it.

That doesn't really stop people from shipping in Mushishi and Mononoke hardcore, however. YMMV and all.

Oh, and probably it would be harder with the slash pairings (but MS/alter self, I guess that one doesn't have that issue), but I think het shippers get away with their ships by making Tanyuu or Kayo travel with the man. Or, you know, just make them one-night-a-year flings. I guess it's easier with Ginko because he can always return to Tanyuu's or Adashino's place whenever he feels like it.

[lacunarity.livejournal.com]

I solve that problem by shipping Ginko/MS. It's a strangely appealing crossover.

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

Well as pure crack this does sort of appeal to me as well. I would even throw Kino in the mix! :)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

See, that's a newsletter I'd gladly subscribe to. Mmhmmm~

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

Oh for some reason I thought you were caught up with Zoku, my mistake :)

Well even if you don't see the Taki/Natsume thing I am sure you will like Taki. She is adorable XD

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

That's okay! It was partly because of the subs being mkv-only for a while. When someone started converting them to avi, I had no time to catch up so I just saved them on my pendrive.

I haven't disliked any NY character so far, so I'd probably like her :D

[lacunarity.livejournal.com]

re:Natsume's lovelife

I totally agree, Natsume's way too damaged to handle being in a romantic relationship, which is why it's really sad that I can't write Tanuma without imagining him at least the tiniest bit in love with Natsume. I've never had that happen with any other character.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Tanuma being in love with Natsume might sound a bit similar to Doumeki's case in XXXHOLiC (except with lots less of snark and future doom), but I can see it as plausible.

That icon is so cute!

[lacunarity.livejournal.com]

I usually try to stick pretty close to canon in everything I do, but Tanuma's that one exception for me. I think it's because of how Tanuma was really good at watching Natsume and picking up on the things Natsume wasn't saying. And also, as important as it was for Natsume to find some supernatural-seeing friend, it was probably more important for Tanuma, since it's implied that Tanuma's small glimpses of spirits made him doubt his sanity from time to time.

Funny thing is, I never saw Doumeki/Watanuki. Probably because it was clear that Doumeki doesn't really like Watanuki, even though they're deeply connected. I was really surprised when that chapter came out a while ago (the one with the flashback of Watanuki and the dead cat), when Doumeki more or less said the same thing I was thinking, that he doesn't actually like the way their relationship is, though it's still important to him.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

(Last time I do a reply during class. Holy redundancy, Batman)

Too bad I'm not up to date on Zoku, but I'll tell you what I think when I get to see more Tanuma. I can relate to seeing a character that way ^^

I'm really behind on HOLiC since I've been feeling sort of bitter about CLAMP manga lately. I've always felt that the pairing is somewhat forced, both in canon and fanon. And also, I'm completely unable to tell Doumeki's feelings or thoughts because of his deadpan.

[sha-chan.livejournal.com]

T-That happens to me too. And I actually love that pairing, but I don't/can't focus on pairings in this particular anime and I find it really sad that with so much cute/paranormal fic potential they are all focused on pairing Natsume with anybody.

[lacunarity.livejournal.com]

Really? I don't actually get that sense from the NY fandom. I mean, for example, in this year's Yuletide, out of the four stories, only one of them was an actual romance between Natsume and Tanuma. The rest were just about friendships and the spirits.

Of course, I'm also the type who avoids romance stories, so I may be self-selecting for the kind of stories I like.

[maypirate.livejournal.com]

Kaoru icon for you.

And they changed Asuka's last name. What. WHAT? WHAT? Dude, *I'M* so outraged I can't even process it.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I'm taking it zen, but what I want the most is to know why the fuck they're doing that. It makes absolutely no sense beyond pissing on the fanboys' cheerios.

[alternian.livejournal.com]

HER NAME IS "ASUKA LANGLEY SOHRYU" AND CHANGING IT NOW IS LIKE CHANGING "CLOUD STRIFE" TO "CLOUD GOING-THROUGH-A-ROUGH-TIME". >:|

GAINAX IS STUPID. D|

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

WAY TOO STUPID. And wanky, to change names of a main character of their largest cow machine. Just-- why.

[alternian.livejournal.com]