I’ve been writing about Evangelion for about a month now. I’ve likely crossed the 10,000-word mark, and I haven’t really needed to revisit an earlier post. Until today that is. A little more than a month ago, I wrote a post examining how Shinji and Gendo treated Rei differently because they saw her differently. I […]
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