The End of Evangelion Movie is trash and makes absolutely zero sense.

[DonFerrari]

NightlyPoe said:

Jumpin said:

You'd be surprised.

Yeah, you could keep going for awhile if you want.  I think one of the things that westerners don't get about anime is just how diverse it is.

I think the block comes from the west's comic book industry's own lack of diversity.  I think the inflection point was in the 1950s after the whole Comic Code Authority thing happened in the United States and killed off the popular romance, western, horror, and mystery along with many other genres leaving only costumed heroes, a few licensed IPs, and some vestiges like Archie Comics.  This not only capped the diversity, but also the audience.

Japan went in the opposite direction and their manga filled every niche it could find, which broadened the audience and made the whole thing a lot more mainstream.  And, since a lot of anime series and OVA are, to a large degree, glorified advertisements for ongoing manga and its merchandise, anime became diverse as well.

The idea of a diverse comic book industry acting as a feeder for the animation industry in dozens of genres and sub-genres every year is a fairly foreign concept.  Hence, you get attempts from many quarters to pigeon-hole it to one degree of the other using the many tropes that have also piled up over the years.

Sorry if that doesn't quite fit you eva01beserk.  I let myself get on a bit of a tangent.

I don't remember the last time I thought about a theme for a manga and didn't found one that was either on that exact theme or at least touched very near to suffice. Almost everthing have something released on.