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Aside from having to spend $200 bucks to get Anessa’s car out of hock, this was a pretty good weekend.
Just a friendly reminder that Anno and Co. originally intended for Rei Ayanami to creep the hell out of us.
Rei was, for all intents and purposes, a personified backlash against the hordes of 80s and early 90s fanboys who slobbered over female characters, and who figured that having a 2D girl that obeyed your every whim and had no voice as your own personal fuckdoll would be pretty damned sweet.
In other words, they wanted a placid, soulless little girl to wank over.
And Anno delivered. Oh, boy, did he deliver.
And then she got fetishized anyway and Gainax made merchandise to ride that.
So you know.
There’s people out there who’ve managed to sexualize a cartoon about animated ponies.
Rules for my new readers: you have to commit a crime & tell the arresting officer I made you do it. Helps me sell books.
Warren Ellis is pretty much everything I’ve always wanted to be
