Neon Genesis Evangelion it is so dense with symbolic meaning that it can be easy to ignore some of the smaller and simpler ways in which the series uses seemingly mundane objects The characters to hold Dear to convey your thoughts and feelings about ideas like love and pain in the story being told.
Although Gendo Ikari is the only core Evangelion character who wears glasses consistently, the glasses have come to mean a little to others –Ilike your emotionally fragile child Shinji and Rei, Eva’s young enigmatic pilot who holds an old, broken pair of Gendo glasses as a souvenir. As the series continues, you can see how Gendo glasses are actually one of the many solid, translucent surfaces with which the characters interact I feel in different ways Evangelionis trying to make a gesture towards the existence of absolute terror fields, the projections of harsh light that Evangelion and Angels use to defend and attack each other.
You can spend hours thinking about the meaning of how people interact with glasses in Evangelion and whether they are just simplified and miniaturized socially acceptable AT fields that people wear on their faces. Or … you could just use a officially licensed pair? Eyeglass Manufacturer JINS Is waiting you will consider that it is new collection of frames inspired by Evangelion and stylized to evoke characters like Shinji, Asuka and Eva Unit-01, in celebration of the long-awaited final film at Evangelion rebuild the project, Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 three times once.
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As long as the glasses don’t immediately scream Evangelion at first glance, when you look closer, you can see the most subtle nods to Eva’s two pilots in small details based on their respective techno-organic mechs. Sunglasses, of course, are a different story, as it is very difficult not to recognize what these purple frames are doing.
JINS ‘ Evangelion the collaboration will not start shipping until the end of autumn, but pre-orders Open today. 3 times is still scheduled to debut in the USA.S. on March 8, despite the film recent release date delay in Japan.
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