Splitting of The Breast is remarkable for its striking, supersaturated visuals. It’s no accident that the episode is marked by such high contrast, light and dark, when the subject matter involves Shinji embarking on a psychoanalytical voyage within the surrealist confines of a shadow. The “angel of the week”, Leliel, is a massive floating behemoth in black and white – diametric opposites – and likewise the entire episode is built upon complementary inter-textual contrasts: the rational vs emotional, parent vs child, boy vs girl, physicality vs the soul. After 15 episodes of relative tame and exposition, Episode 16′s harsh colors, formalist diagonal structure, and oppressive shadows allow the more arcane Freudian undertones to finally take their command.
weird shit from evangelion that go unnoticed:
- shinji only listens to one song on his sdat and it’s you are the only one by kotono mitsuishi, aka misato’s seiyuu
- nerv’s 2nd branch is located in nevada USA, which just so happens to be the site of area 51
- everyone grows several inches taller in rebuild for some reason
- gendo is apparently “very small-waisted” and has to wear suspenders to hold his pants up
- maya is so short she has to sit on her cat pillow to reach the control terminal
- ritsuko’s listed hobbies include “punk rock and bonsai trees”
- kaji mentions going scuba diving in episode 10 and is seen throwing up the shaka sign with a surfboard in his character sheet
- nerv’s division-2 stalled on retrieving asuka from the bathtub so that kaworu could sabotage her eva which means they were secretly loyal to seele all along
- gendo and fuyutsuki are literally just straker and freeman from ufo
- kaji is literally just emma peel from the original avengers
- misato reads car magazines and nothing else
- ritsuko doesn’t have a car. she’s either taking the train or riding passenger in misato’s car
- in episode 19 toji enters shinji’s dreamscape and it’s never explained
- rei is a voracious reader of oscar wilde
