Yeah but there’s literally merch of Asuka in a Waffen SS uniform. It’s not like she ever wears one in the show.
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Uh. Wow. Ok. I mean, in any case my point isn't that there's no fascist imagery in Eva, but that even fascists don't want things to end up like EoE
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @searotonin
...or do they? I mean, "man and woman, woman being a proud German, trapped on an island together to repopulate humanity" *is* actually pretty fash, but I just can't see anybody thinking Shinji is an ubermensch
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I mean, there’s also the matter of the portrayal of Seele
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Replying to @searotonin @BootlegGirl
Any shadowy conspiracy of powerful politicians controlling the world behind the scenes is bad vibes, but SEELE's whole deal is pretty explicitly (heretical) Christian, it's the Templar conspiracy rather than the Elders of Zion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The distinctly hooked noses (plus the whole ‘globalism’ thing) tell me otherwise.
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And I mean, according to interviews the whole show was designed to have christian/abrahamic themes primarily for aesthetic flare. I don’t think it has to all relate directly to subject material they probably weren’t even immediately familiar with. In all likelihood it’s a mesh.
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Replying to @searotonin @BootlegGirl
Well yeah but on the Doylist level I doubt Anno consciously thought of hooked noses as a Jewish trait as opposed to just a foreign trait
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Obviously like I said any Illuminati like group is going to evoke antisemitism and Gainax wasn't particularly careful about not stepping in it But at the same time the apocalypse cult stuff is so Christian influenced SEELE wants to annihilate humanity because of "Original Sin"
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As far as "globalism" goes... I wanna say that kind of comes with the territory in this kind of story and ends up being this ambiguous thing in Eva
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Like SEELE is the bad guys as a genre subversion of the expected idea that in the future in order to fight the aliens the UN becomes the world government and that's a good thing
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It kind of does feel like it's going in a John Birch direction with Kaji working for the Japanese government as a mole and discovering that SEELE has lied to their host nation and all that
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But when the Japanese troops invade NERV and start slaughtering everyone in End of Evangelion it's hardly presented as a patriotic victory
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