From: yaniv_tempelman@hispeed.ch   
      
   Hello,   
      
   mechdan@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > >Shinji,to me, is real, his behaviors is what I   
   > >expected of him from his character set up, he   
   > >never deviated from it,   
   >   
   > He defied my expectations.  Usually, the male star   
   > of sci-fi anime starts off as an angsty unsure   
   > teenager but at some point he grows a spine and   
   > fights for what he believes in.  Shinji's character   
   > never grows, and by the third time he just "runs   
   > away", it's tiresome and repetitious.   
      
   Just a side question:   
      
   If an angsty unsure teenager in some (science fiction) anime grows at   
   some point and fights for what he believes in, it makes the same anime   
   less tiresome and repetitious as if the teenager wouldn't?   
      
   Exactly those points of maturing/getting self-confident and fighting   
   backs seem to me sometimes awfully clichéed and thus tiresome in anime   
   and manga from recent years. Maybe it's just a matter of taste, but I   
   think Shinji's (and everyone elses' ) psychologically broken character   
   beyond redemption in Eva was and still is a breath of fresh air.   
      
   > Isaac Kuo   
      
      
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   Yaniv Tempelman   
      
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