Re: Adieu (Nagisa Kaworu of Evangelion)
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 9:56 am
I'm so happy you went through with this revamp!! I love all your designs so so much (and will forever bug you about making a layout archive UGH), and this is like. YAY MODERN DAY MASAO HAS ARRIVED TO DAZZLE EVERYONE.
As I had recently commented on this shrine, I've been waiting for my NGE reread to comment on its revamp, as it motivated me to go sit down and finally finish the manga... (I came into this topic to side-eye Andrea, but then I found a receipt of my first few NGE volumes dating back to 2005. Somehow I've never made it past volume 6 and thus never got to meet manga!Kaworu, so yeah... :|)
One thing I really love about finally experiencing something that I only know from shrines is... seeing quotes as they are presented in the source material. Your quotes throughout this - especially the ones that make up the navigation - convey the solemn mood so well, and I've loved them so much over all these years. When I got to finally meet manga!Kaworu, and as I read his final moments, "connecting" felt very much like... remembering the melody to the lyrics of a song. ;_;
It's curious to me that Kaworu of all characters seems so different in the manga; Sadamoto's storytelling seems so much quieter to me overall (compared to the anime), so for Kaworu's appearance to come with that much turbulence was unexpected. (Again, great job at interspersing corresponding anime scenes and contrasts between anime and manga throughout the shrine!) Though he is very different from the Kaworu I already know, I ended up liking him a lot - especially with regard to the selfishness that you focus on in Adieu. You've managed to capture his values and motivations in a very authentic way, and ended it very quietly on a personal note.
As I had recently commented on this shrine, I've been waiting for my NGE reread to comment on its revamp, as it motivated me to go sit down and finally finish the manga... (I came into this topic to side-eye Andrea, but then I found a receipt of my first few NGE volumes dating back to 2005. Somehow I've never made it past volume 6 and thus never got to meet manga!Kaworu, so yeah... :|)
One thing I really love about finally experiencing something that I only know from shrines is... seeing quotes as they are presented in the source material. Your quotes throughout this - especially the ones that make up the navigation - convey the solemn mood so well, and I've loved them so much over all these years. When I got to finally meet manga!Kaworu, and as I read his final moments, "connecting" felt very much like... remembering the melody to the lyrics of a song. ;_;
It's curious to me that Kaworu of all characters seems so different in the manga; Sadamoto's storytelling seems so much quieter to me overall (compared to the anime), so for Kaworu's appearance to come with that much turbulence was unexpected. (Again, great job at interspersing corresponding anime scenes and contrasts between anime and manga throughout the shrine!) Though he is very different from the Kaworu I already know, I ended up liking him a lot - especially with regard to the selfishness that you focus on in Adieu. You've managed to capture his values and motivations in a very authentic way, and ended it very quietly on a personal note.