Waypoints 34: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Episodes 8-13

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🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 199 minutes

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Summary

Content Warning: discussion of the sexualization of children, sexual violence, and child pornography.

There is a long running trope of fan service in anime, where by characters (almost always women) are sexualized by the "camera" for the enjoyment of the (largely male) audience. Often it's deployed in irrespective of whatever plot point is happening at that moment, purely to titillate. Evangelion is no exception, however, it complicates it's own usage by attempting to explore the burgeoning sexuality of it's teenaged characters. But there's a notable difference between sexualizing characters for the viewer and characters having sexual thoughts. We discuss the messy way that episodes 8-13 deal with these issues and more on this week's Waypoints.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, before we get started, I just wanted to give you a heads up and a content
0:04.4	warning for conversations about the sexualization of children, sexual violence and child pornography.
0:10.7	Because of the episodes we watch this week, there is a much larger ongoing conversation
0:14.3	about the sexualization of these characters.
0:16.3	It's a big topic for us throughout the episode, but the most direct conversation about child
0:20.9	pornography runs from around 1, 12, 30 to 127, 40.
0:27.1	And our conversation about a scene that features sexual harassment and assault is from 127,
0:32.3	40 to 137, 40.
0:35.0	We take a break right after that.
0:37.3	So if you wanted to skip from like 112 and come back in at 138, you'd be able to miss
0:43.5	both of those conversations and hop back on board.
0:46.7	We do our best to be careful around this topic and not to be excessive or explicit, but
0:54.1	the topic matter is serious and so we felt better giving you a heads up than not doing
0:58.0	that.
0:59.0	So I hope you enjoy the episode and I hope everyone who has today off or tomorrow off or
1:03.6	has some time off coming up, enjoys it.
1:06.0	Peace.
1:07.0	What's good internet?
1:22.5	It is Thursday, July 4th.
1:25.1	You know what that means.
1:26.8	Something still vague and inflammatory or sorry, not inflammatory, not inflammatory.
1:33.1	Not inflammatory about patriotism and America and we're celebrating, but we're not celebrating
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