Bata Neart: Makes a Good Friday a “Great Friday” 😀 Sorry I couldn’t resist.
Looks like Áine has a new trick to show, but can Ashling pull this off? Find out next week 🙂
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Bata Neart: Makes a Good Friday a “Great Friday” 😀 Sorry I couldn’t resist.
Looks like Áine has a new trick to show, but can Ashling pull this off? Find out next week 🙂
Um, how does one regulate just HOW far “suas” one goes? Also the rate of climb?
Aine may have been aiming at teaching Ashling something fun for a first step, but I think Ashling would have preferred something a little more…..down to earth. O.o
*croons discordantly:
Fly me to the moon and
Let me play among those stars
Let me see what spring is like on
Jupiter and Mars
Close your mouths, girls. You’re going to catch flies. 😛
So Aoife’s going to get to see Ashling flying – in a skirt. I hope Fiona thought to bring some smelling salts.
I hope Ashling isn’t afraid of heights.
“Up, up, and awa–oh crap I can’t stop! Heeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllp!!!!” as she passes by a 747. I’m suddenly imagining Calvin and Hobbes:
@Delta: Ah yes…how to regulate the “suas” spell?…..I knew I forgot something…..
……damn 😀
@Azreal: That sing is giving me flash-backs of “Neon Genesis Bata Neart” 😀
Back then, Ashling an emo basket-case, Aoife was a red-headed German(-ish) girl, and Áine was the mysterious quiet one. They all lived together in Neo-Dublin 3, in the apartment of an alcoholic Lt. Sharon, who worked at “NERT” with her scientist friend Helena 😀
I could keep going….. 😀
@Kessy: Yea I was thinking at. Also, after I finsihed and posted this page I only then noticed where Aoife was staring 😀 Even when I’m drawing the page I can’t control her!
@Farren: She’ll then ricochet off the International Space Station, and drift into deep space. That’ll be the trigger my new webcomic “Bata Neart INNNN SPAAAAACE! (Featuring Astro-Aoife)”
So does that mean that Azrael gets to be Lt. Sharon’s domestic penguin? :3
Actually, it looks like Aoife, Ashling, and Fiona are all staring at the same thing. Although Aoife is the only one who’s blushing.
I enjoyed “NGE” for the most part, but I seriously wanted to slap Shinji silly for most of it. Let’s not make Ashling the Shinji. That and the idea of Aoife ending like Asuka is rather heartbreaking. 🙁
@Azreal: I think everyone wanted to slap Shinji, I think that’s part of the communal NGE experience 😀 I think I may have actually started yelling at Shinji during my first viewing many moons ago. I simply couldn’t grasp why a teenage guy would be so depressed when he had the job of “Giant Robot Pilot” and got to work with cute girls. Of course at that time I wasn’t factoring his increadibly messed up childhood, or the whole thing with his mother (spoilers, I guess?)
I’d like to think that my own take on NGE would be far more light hearted and silly. The giant robot show of the time that influenced me more was Martian Successor Nadesico, which was silly as all hell 🙂
@Kessy: You’re right! How could I have forgotten “Zrael-Zreal”? (With Zreal(2) on the collar). Living of course in a fridge beside Lt. Sharon’s Beer-fridge. (There could be other food in that fridge, but I always assumed that it was just beer….also when she gets drunk I also imagine her mixing up the two 😀 )
@Azrael: Heartbreaking is pretty much the entire point of Evangelion. 😉
@Rawr: I realize I’m weird, but I always loved Shinji. How could he be depressed? Ummm, let’s see. There’s the emotionally abusive father who’s the second worse parent in the history of ever. He’s stuck in an Eva with no training and told that he’s the only one who can save the world so all the death and destruction that he fails to prevent is his fault. Then there’s the Eva interface that makes him directly experience fighting a monster hand to hand. Then there’s the Eva going berserk which he also has to experience as if he’s doing it himself. And the surrogate mother figure who only knows how to express affection and tenderness through sex. And all of this in the first episode…
Oh, and let’s not forget that the cute girls are his emotionally non functional sister and Asuka… (“Shinji, who are you more afraid of? Asuka or the Angels?” “Well duh…”)
Anyway, for light hearted and silly Evangelion, you really need to watch Petit Eva: Evangelion@School. It’s… It’s… Oh, just go watch the first episode. All two minutes of it. https://vimeo.com/6943271
Sorry, I didn’t mean to rant, it’s just… My general reaction to Shinji haters is pretty much, “You think he’s a wimp? You try living his life. $20 bucks says you’d throw yourself in front of a train inside of a month if you had to deal with half the stuff he does.”
@Kessy: Sure, but I actually like Aoife. Asuka? Eh, not so much.
*Looks up at Azreal’s comment*
D’aw!!!!! 😀
*Runs away giggling….*
@Kessy: Please don’t mis-read my initial yelling at Shinji as me being another Shinji-hater, I’m really not 🙂
I also appreciated the depth of his character, and after a little more than a few episodes in I started to understand the rather shitty hand that life had dealt him. His reactions then felt far more human, and his teenage awkwardness reminded me a lot of myself especially at that age. The robot fanboy that I was while I initially scoffed and raged at Shinji’s lack of enthusiasm for his apparently awesome robot adventure (featuring cute anime girls no less)…then melted away when things kind I got “real” and I realised myself…that 14 year old me would not have done much better.
He wasn’t my favourite character (that was always Misato), but aften getting into the show I don’t think I him all that much after the first episdoes 🙂
@Azreal: You have no idea how heart-warming it is to read when someone states that they like one of my own little characters, over one of anime’s most famous characters. It is the first time I’ve experienced this, and it is a wonderful feeling. Thank you so much.
Sorry, I really didn’t mean to rant. I did get that you meant that was your initial reaction to Shinji, not what you think now. I just identify a lot with Shinji, so that’s kind of a sore spot for me.
@Kessy: Please feel free to rant away 🙂 I do it myself all of the time on web forums 😀