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title: "sora no method+eva & the ultimate question: part 1"
published: 2019-07-15
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ok so this is probably going to be a longer post than usual but i'll be adding
some pictures to add some ***colour*** and **spice** to keep things interesting.
also i'll be talking about `shin seiki evangerion` *aka* `neon genesis evangelion`
as well as a lesser known gem so i hope you don't get bored halfway through. i
may even make it a 2-part blog post. that could be fun.

# **おkー始まりましょう！**

![](/images/soranomethod-noel-i-can-do-this.gif "i can do this!")

## where to begin…?

i started writing a post on **7月7日** which was much closer to when i finished
`eva` but i'm actually rather glad i didn't get too far with that. i've had time
to think about it and let the show sink in now (as well as do some basic
research i had been avoiding so as to keep safe from spoilers). speaking of
*spoilers*, i need to write my feelings about them in the future. also, for
reference, i did not watch using netflix's subs for various reasons. i did watch
the last official sub release, though, because fansubs that live up to my
standards either don't exist or are too much of a hassle to find (similar to
`jojo` come to think of it; at least s01).

![is this expression not PRICELESS?](/images/priceless.png "a screencap from eva showing a priceless expression")

> i mean, sure, asuka's expression is golden, but… why post it here and now?

**an excellent question!** and one answer is we are talking about ***subtitles***
and i can't help but wonder what was going on with the episode names at the end.
*(ok also if you want to know i have a lot of pictures i want to use in my post
and most of my pictures i have at my disposal right now are screencaps of some
of the later `eva` episodes and some delightfully <em lang="ja">萌え</em>
`sora no method` animations)*
i mean, i bet she made that expression after seeing this:

![ai=愛=love… or does ai=i here?][endone]

![and of course in english…][endtwo]

[endone]: /images/lastepisode-name1.png "the beast that shouted アイ at the heart of the world"
[endtwo]: /images/lastepisode-name2.png "take care of yourself"

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ok i'm going to be honest here. i spent *way too smegging long messing with
[expletives removed] html and css and markdown because they are **[even more and
exponentially more offensive language removed]*** so in short this is very
likely to be more pictures than actual insights. i was blogging to relax myself
but as soon as i realised there was something i could do i didn't know about i
inevitably started messing with things and breaking them and researching web
shit that i didn't need to know and ***now?*** well, now i'm just smegging
hungry. so i'll be back to writing more (hopefully) when i've gotten something
to eat.

in the meantime,

![obviously the answer to asuka's question is they are fine the size they are so
it doesn't **really** matter](/images/asukanooppai.png "アスカのおっぱい")

also, ever wonder why asuka, who's german, has kanji in her name? i mean, the
things separating her from the japanese are her bombastic personality, the fact
she has three names, and *maybe* her height and colour of her hair and skin if
you are selective enough in the people you compare her with and your methods of
doing so. her having trouble with kanji and japanese which are more things that
the viewer is told than actually witnesses (**most of the time**) i guess could
also count.

> dude get something to eat you have no direction with anything you're saying
> and you aren't even fact checking yourself. ***eat!***

yah, ok fine. before i do, i thought i should link [more info about the japanese title i showed earlier][wiki]
for anyone interested.

[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_episodes#cite_note-6 "tl;dr the アイ was written in katakana deliberately to add ambiguity"

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now that my food is heating up, let me lay out the questions i hope to answer
in *part two* of this blog post. first: i will address what **the ultimate
question** is and why i think `sora no method` and `evangelion` are worth being
talked about in the same blog post. oh and before i go any further, i realise i forgot
to state this disclaimer sooner: i have only seen the `eva` *series* so far. i
have not seen `end of eva` or any of the other films. just throwing that out
there. 

> one *final* note: i know the date on this is wrong now. but i'm not changing
> it. 

ok **stay tasty, everyone**, and i'll see you in either *part two* or a filler blog
post if i don't feel like writing *part two* for a while.

![noel is so cute! if this isn't a happy ending to a blog post, i don't know what is](/images/soranomethod-noel-umbrella-nonoka.gif "noel and nonoka from sora no method")