>>3729849>Anno loves his parallels, doesn’t he?Yes, but then again Rebuild is mostly Tsurumaki and others, even in the end Anno didn't do that much. He only participated more during 3.0 and 3.0+1.0 because of the real life natural disaster that hit Japan and their need to re direct their plans for the movie because of it.
>Shin prioritizing the story over everything elseMy opinion is that it was a bad idea to try to wing it so hard. NGE was done in the same way to some extent but here the new team clearly couldn't pull it off.
Up until 3.0 I did see a vague general idea of a story/theme and characters, so 3.0+1.0 doesn't really feel that shocking to me and most things I expected. Their problem was never sitting down and defining that idea because now, in retrospect 1.0 is just a waste of time, 2.0 has shit happening every 2 seconds because they wanted to fit everything in a single movie and 3.0, while it sets the tone for what is happening well, feels a bit too slow when you have so many things to explore after it. 3.0+1.0 is like 2.0 in that way.
Let's not forget their shitty fanservice too. I'm ok with fanservice when it's not tone deaf but in Rebuild it is like that 70% of the time. Like I've said here before, look at the scene of Toji and Hikari showing their baby to ReiQ. It's a very comfy scene and it makes me happy for Toji and Hikari but in the middle of it I get and ass shot of ReiQ for no reason. Those shitty 3D fights also count as fanservice btw, it would've been awesome if they were idk 5 minutes long instead of 10.
I mention these because they are examples of Rebuild prioritizing fanservice over everything else. So sometimes fanservice is stronger than the story itself and wastes time that could've been used somewhere else.
