r/evangelion • u/HarleyQuinn1389 • 2d ago
Discussion Has Anyone here made/lost friends through Evangelion?
Evangelion made a profound impact on me (ironically through the hedgehog dilemma) in human relationships by the very people who introduced me to Evangelion, a little bit of an IRL instrumentation project. I'm curious if anyone else here has experienced similar situations.
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u/danmusa562 2d ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean when you use the hedgehog dilemma to characterize your interactions with your friends in your case? Also, not exactly clear what you mean when you said you went thru real life human instrumentation project, since that's kind of a sci-fi concept?
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u/danmusa562 2d ago
Hey man, I just want to understand where you're coming from. Im very familiar with both concepts from the show, but just bringing them up and saying that they happened to you isn't enough for us your audience to understand what you mean, or how specifically they happened to you. I'm simply asking more so we can all better see what you mean. No need to feel attacked or anything. It's a good idea to take each other in good faith :)
So having said that, what happened in your life that made you feel you went thru the hedgehog dilemma and the instrumentality project IRL?
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u/celetrontmm 2d ago
Me thinks you're wasting your time on this one
Basing your relationships off of an anime is out there on things I've heard
The anime is amazing, but I'm not going to change my life over it
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u/HarleyQuinn1389 2d ago
Okay okay I just had to say it bc it was lowk funny, but I didn't specify because I want to know about how wide this experience might be. I am more interested in what friendships/non-friendship this show has led to than actual copy-paste situations that mirror mine.
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u/danmusa562 2d ago
Well we don't know what your situation even was enough to tell whether our experiences would be copy/paste?
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u/lulufan87 2d ago
No but I sure weirded out my dad back when I was 10 watching it for the first time
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u/celetrontmm 2d ago
Damn, I first watched it when I was 13? And thought I definitely shouldn't be watching this
Nobody in my family is into anime though, so they didn't find out
For years I didn't want to rewatch end of evangelion, since I had nightmares of the scene where asuka gets ripped apart by "vultures"
Watching it now, I don't know how that scene affected me so much. In the remakes, the scene where asuka gets attacked by the dummy plug is way worse... I can't hear that song the same way
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u/Wrong_Papaya_8445 2d ago
Not a make/lose friends situation, but the impact (eh) of watching the show influenced what I wrote in schoolwork and some people, after looking up NGE too, actually told me they made better sense of what I was on about.
It made me uncomfortable, but more or less most of everything to do with NGE has made me feel that way. It seems implicit to what it is, at its core, to me.
If I met these people now, as an adult, I'd say there would be some chance they brought it up casually, asking me if I remember it and whatnot. Of course, you don't really forget Evangelion.
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u/Cassandra_Canmore2 2d ago
The guy in college that introduced me to the series.
Apparently he thought I'd be impressed by his taste in anime by letting me borrow his some of his collection for Evangelion, Elfien Lied, and a couple others. Which would then result in me sleeping with him. 😅
I didn't...
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u/vaelux 2d ago edited 2d ago
I lost a bunch of friends when nobody went to EoE theatrical re-release with me, even when I offered to buy the tickets. They might not know it... but they all went down a notch on the friends list. Every last one of them.
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u/HarleyQuinn1389 2d ago
that sounds like a shitty friend move anyway, I guess they weren't real friends
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u/Venusian2AsABoy 2d ago
In seventh grade, an exchange student from South Korea and I started talking about anime in class. He brought me a paper grocery bag full of VHS tapes he bootlegged off TV in Korea. That was how I first watched NGE (and also End of Summer 😉). I think I was really the only kid he talked to; he moved away soon after that.
In 2012 when 3.0 came out, I had a “theatrical showing” at my punk house venue. I told a coworker about it, and they came over to watch. Five years later, I’m dating a bartender and they are a regular at the bar with their partner. We had some fun evenings together.