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Hey, Answerman! [2008-07-18]

Shinji, for example, is in fact emo. No matter how you use it, he's emo. He questions the value of his life, is socially retarded because of how sad he is, cries constantly, and is generally a wimp.

Kira, on the other hand, is a whiny bitch. The situations in which he actually cries tend to at least be enough to dodge an emo label (though he really didn't have much reason to cry when he "killed" Waltfelt) but he always languishes around acting all sad and then just kills everything. You figure that by the end of the show (or even into Destiny for god's sake) he'd man up enough to at least only cry every other episode.

As for Haryo, shame on you. Three billion civilians died in the One Week War. Hope you had no family in the colonies or on the Earth. Otherwise, there's a 25% chance they're dead.

The joke (based all too much in reality) is that Westerners often can't tell the difference between Asian ethnicities, and the more ethnocentric American yokels can't even distinguish in their minds between the different Asian countries.

It's a lame way of mocking and dismissing someone; presumably the person snickering and calling someone "emo" does so because they are a badass with a heart of black iron and you could slaughter their family in front of them and they'd make fun of it online or something like that.

blind_assassin wrote:

Shinji, for example, is in fact emo. No matter how you use it, he's emo. He questions the value of his life, is socially retarded because of how sad he is, cries constantly, and is generally a wimp.

And that doesn't sound like, say, nearly every fourteen year old boy in existence? Especially one whose mother died and was abandoned by his father? God forbid he question his existence. All children should be stoic kill machines.

penguintruth wrote:

blind_assassin wrote: Shinji, for example, is in fact emo. No matter how you use it, he's emo. He questions the value of his life, is socially retarded because of how sad he is, cries constantly, and is generally a wimp. And that doesn't sound like, say, nearly every fourteen year old boy in existence? Especially one whose mother died and was abandoned by his father? God forbid he question his existence. All children should be stoic kill machines.

Just because it's justified doesn't mean I want to watch it for 26 episodes. Character growth, please.

lol, because eva was purely about mecha battles, and no time or consideration was ever put into developing characters

Seriously, learn the meaning and history of the word and stop using it so liberally.

OK, yes it's short for "emotional" but it refers to specific emotions, that of grief, sadness and confusion over trivial things (most prominent being dumped by a girl)

Seriously, learn the meaning and history of the word and stop using it so liberally.

I hate how people use the word "emo" for everything these days, it's not even used correctly in the music industry anymore.

? Have you ever felt "Moe" to someone?