Neon Genesis Evangelion
A landmark anime where teenagers pilot giant bio-mechanical units to fight mysterious beings called Angels, exploring themes of identity, fear, and human connection.
Release: 1995-10
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Articles
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A dAIa-log dialogue on nostalgia IP, reading anime, toys, remakes, and fan creation as ways fiction takes time to become real in the age of AI.
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An autograph essay beginning from Yuna’s 2026 Sword Art Online live performance, tracing fiction-reality synchronization, SAO’s technological invention of another world, AI, death, empathy, and continued existence.
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A dAIa-log dialogue with ChatGPT defining rain-like expression in anime by asking what rain does, what makes it specific, and how its function might be applied without depicting rain itself.
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A dAIa-log dialogue examining rain in anime as a shift from private, viscous interiority to a shared and whitened social condition—linking Evangelion-era “liquid” motifs, 2000s dampness, and contemporary visual purification.
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A co-laborAItion essay on why *Gnosia* somehow holds together—tracing its narrative coherence through script composition, counterfactual thinking, and the behavior of world lines.
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A dAIa-log dialogue exploring rain in Japanese animation as motif, emotional amplifier, and narrative device — from The Garden of Words and Totoro to Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop.
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Why can humans receive meaning without fully understanding it? A dAIa-log dialogue exploring intuition, cognitive shortcuts, and layers of understanding through anime examples like Kiki’s Delivery Service and Evangelion.
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Tracing how Kapitaro’s “Osorezan Le Voile” grew from Nico Nico and Vocaloid-era fan creation into *Shaman King*’s most definitive anime ending—through Reiwa remakes, Japanese era-name intuition, and a thought on what generative AI can’t replicate.
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How anime opening themes (OPs) tell stories before the story itself — from *ARIA* to *Madoka Magica* and *Aquarion*.