ME!ME!ME! (NSFW)

[Fox12]

You've gotta love Anno.

Creates new fanservice girl for Evangelion movies in order to increase merchandise sells and pander to fan base.

Creates new animated short criticizing fans for buying his merchandise, claims they're the problem with anime.

 

[gandhi the peacemake]

You've gotta love Anno.

Creates new fanservice girl for Evangelion movies in order to increase merchandise sells and pander to fan base.

Creates new animated short criticizing fans for buying his merchandise, claims they're the problem with anime.

Well, he created Ayanami as a deconstruction and scathing criticism of the quiet submissive girl fetish. Then otaku turned her into the poster child of the quiet submissive girl fetish, and paid him lots of money for it. So there really wasn't anywhere else to go from there.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Well, that surely was a thing.

 

[blackrave]

Well, that surely was a thing.

Definitely
I would even claim that it was thingiest of all thingy things I have ever thinged.
Still.
0/10- worst game ever.

 

[SquallTheBlade]

why they needed it to be a over the top sex fest instead of a short drama?

Because it represents the sexual escapism that fanservice anime can provide. Without it the music video wouldn't be as effective at delivering the message.

 

[Casual Shinji]

You've gotta love Anno.

Creates new fanservice girl for Evangelion movies in order to increase merchandise sells and pander to fan base.

Creates new animated short criticizing fans for buying his merchandise, claims they're the problem with anime.

I think that was just him trying to have his cake an eat it.

'All you losers should stop buying anatomically detailed figurines. But look, these are from Rebuild, get hyped for the new movie!' Criticizing while simultaneously merchandizing... Anno, you sly fox.

 

[47_Ronin]

There's one Youtuber's analysis of the video here He raises a few good points. They video may in fact have a deeper meaning, and I can kind of see it the way he does.

I saw it and delved deeply into the comment section. I ended up googling goru, saw a video of a guy putting his smiley-face decorated penis into a powered air fan, and read a host of bystanders that were encouraging an allegedly suicidal commenter to go through with it. Now I'm depressed.

Didn't care for the video itself, though.

 

[Michael Tabbut]

I saw this last week, all I thought was "I found an animated music video more fucked up than Dye Fantasy."

 

[TravelerSF]

Though I liked the video despite it's bluntness, the impact is somewhat lost when the former girlfriend looks like a typical, picture perfect anime girl herself, not to mention her boobs were almost about to fall out of that dress on one scene.

 

[VanQ]

I certainly think that this type of criticism is needed to be said if only so that we don't have as much head-smashing stupid fanservice and self-insert shows but I do ask why they needed it to be a over the top sex fest instead of a short drama?

I don't think they could have gotten the same impact from a short drama. If you consider the clip only runs for about 6mins, I think they've done a great job with trying to deliver a message. Besides, it would seem that the entire point of the clip was a commentary on how people use 2D and eroticism to escape from real world relationships. They say a picture is worth 1000 words and they gave us sexual imagery by the boatload so I'd say it did a lot better at expressing that in such a short time than a 1000 word script would have.

Also, as you stated in your post. This clip had FLAIR! I don't think a short drama could have had such flair.

Oh, Hideki Anno worked on this.
You don't say.
YOU DON'T FUCKING SAY

This is by far my favorite response to the clip so far. Not only is the clip full of Anno's patented symbolism, he also took the chance to shill Eva figs. 10/10 would fall for his sly marketing tactics again.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

For those saying Hideki Anno worked on this...

Technically, it's just his studio, Studio Khara. The short is part of the Japan Animator Expo, which features a tone of new directors (who's probably done previous work on some Gainax stuff) making anime shorts, supposedly 30 in total by the end of it. This I think was the fourth one. The other ones I've seen were alright.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

It's about as "DEEEEEEP" as Taylor Swift's Shake It Off video. -_-

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Okay, once I stop thinking of it as a short film and see it as a music video instead, it certainly becomes less revolutionary or even that special to be honest. There's definitely a story being told there. I think it was that the guy had a real-life relationship, but was so deeply buried in the fantasy land of videogames, porn and otaku indulgence that he'd become unable to deal with it in the realm of reality. So he abandoned her, and escaped back into his own worlds. The fact that the video starts to repeat after you've watched it would IMO suggest that the protagonist is caught in a vicious circle, endlessly being devoured by his fantasies and escapism, and unable to tear away from it because of his remorse.

Not really that deep honestly IMO. Nice bit of eye candy for sure.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Wow, didn't know big wigs like Hayao Miyazaki had a hand in it, just popped up on tumblr one day and looked cool. Took it as a otaku that got a bit too involved with his obsession to have a girlfriend anymore, so his libido is out to kill him.

 

[Elfgore]

Well that was fun little experience. The animation and art style was fantastic, reminded me a lot of No Game No Life. Before reading the lyrics, I managed to get a general idea of the story. A guy broke up with his girlfriend and became miserable. Becoming addicted to anime and becoming a N.E.E.T or some variation of one. I enjoyed it, but then again, I enjoy anything sung by a Japanese woman with a electronic theme.

 

[default]

That was really enjoyable, the animation and colours were beautiful. I'm sure it all has something to do with the intensity of young sexuality and idolisation of characters, but I don't really care to think much more about it.

 

[senordesol]

First reaction: That was pretty gross.

After Reading Analysis: Uh...huh... So I guess the machine gun tits tearing him to shreds at the end was symbolic of the unassailable power of idealized sexual 'perfection' as depicted in hentai/pornography making it damn near impossible to foster an actual relationship? Cool...I...uh...I guess.

At the very least, I'm glad you guys were here to explain it to me because a lot of the cultural stuff flew right the fuck over my head.

Sheesh...that gore tho...why Japan gotta be so nasty?

 

[CrystalShadow]

Though I liked the video despite it's bluntness, the impact is somewhat lost when the former girlfriend looks like a typical, picture perfect anime girl herself, not to mention her boobs were almost about to fall out of that dress on one scene.

That may actually be the point though.

"Look. You had a real girl that was about as close to perfect as a real person can be, but apparently that wasn't good enough for you..."


Anyway, watching this again I think I'm starting to like the intro more than the video itself... XD