Neon Genesis Evangelion it is so dense with a symbolic meaning that it can be easy to overlook some of the smaller, simpler ways the series uses seemingly mundane objects. the characters hold on dear to convey their thoughts and feelings about ideas like love and pain in the story being told.
Although Gendo Ikari is the only core Evangelion a character who always presents glasses, glasses are significant to others—las her emotionally fragile son Shinji and Rei, Eva’s enigmatic young pilot holding on to a memory of an old and broken pair of Gendo glasses. As the series continues, you can see how Gendo’s glasses are actually one of the many solid, translucent surfaces that the characters interact with. feel like different ways EvangelionTry gesturing towards the existence of fields of absolute terror, the hard light projections that Evangelion and Angels use to defend and attack each other.
You could spend hours thinking about the importance of how people interact with glasses Evangelion and if they are just socially acceptable simplified and miniaturized AT fields that people wear on their face. Or … you could only wear one officially licensed couple? Glasses manufacturer JINS is waiting you will consider it new collection of frames inspired by Evangelion and designed to evoke characters such as Shinji, Asuka and Eva Unit-01, in celebration of the long-awaited final film in the Evangelion reconstruction project, Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 three times.
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Although the glasses do not call immediately Evangelion at first glance, when you look closer, you can see the most subtle of heads to the two Eva pilots in small details based on their respective techno-organic mechanisms. Sunglasses are obviously something different, as it’s pretty hard not to recognize what these purple frames are for.
JINS ‘ Evangelion the collaboration will not start shipping until the end of autumn, but with advance orders open today. Three times there was once it is still scheduled to premiere in the U.S. on March 8, despite the film recent release date retard in Japan.
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