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Howdy. I was browsing down the TDFN/AN group on Facebook when I saw a link to this forum... And I was bored so I dropped by to register. I'm Vale aka. valerauko (sometimes Olostur or centurimon), currently unemployed university student and fansubber. Cheers!

Orange. My favorite color seems to change every now and then, but it's usually some powerful color (blue, red, green, orange).

Sure as hell it's a very popular show (we're getting steady 100k+ downloads every ep), but I don't think it's all that exceptional. It's a shonen show full of action. The art is ages better in the anime than the manga, which is a relief (I hated the manga's art). As for the writing, the plot seems to be quite cliched with all the dark and gloomy conspiracies in the background, and the drama is the standard you can expect from a well-selling shonen (the likes of Naruto). The dialog's quite simple, but I don't mind that. Current goal: translating an episode in 90 min. (I think I couldn't manage it under 2 hours so far.)

According to my experience, you mustn't show any uncertainty during interviews. For example I got to the third round of selection with a few major companies, and I was always asked about solving the most difficult problem their entire industry is facing now. Obviously that's not something you can just solve by a flash of genius. In retrospect I realized that I should've just said "I'd gather data, learn from my seniors at the company, gain lots of experience and incorporate the ideas of others to solve the problem in the end".

Let me sum it up: it made close to no sense. Gendo and his pal are running NERV by themselves? They even built a whole new Eva alone! Why won't Asuka and Mari just go there and shoot the NERV HQ to pieces? They were clearly able to infiltrate it and they could easily fight Rei. Why didn't they attack while Shinji was in the sarcophagus in space? Which reminds me, who put that sarcophagus in space and why? Why wouldn't they just kill Shinji after retrieving him from space? They obviously treat him as a threat. Why not just get rid of him instead of putting poor boy under even more psychological pressure (even though everyone knows how unstable he is)? And all the scheming Gendo does, behind everyone else's backs... He first treats the issue as of utmost importance then when it fails he goes "oh well this should do for now", as if building more Evas would be but a child's play for him. Who impaled Lilith with two lances of Longinus? Where did the second one come from? How did that Angel get into Eva 6? And that preview... Armies of Eva (presumably under NERV's command)... Honestly, as much as I liked 1.0 and 2.0, this movie was a total blunder and I'm afraid with 4.0 the series will be even worse off than with the original TV airing's ending (which was admittedly so fucked up they had to make End of Evangelion to fix it).