Kawo Nagisa (渚 カヲル Nagisa Kawo) is a gay character om Neon Genis Evangeln. In Neon Genis Evangeln, Kawo is said to be the Fifth Child, sent by SEELE to NERV as a replacement pilot for Evangeln Un-02 after Asa’s synchronizatn rat wh the Eva drop below abily. He...
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- NETFLIX'S EVANGELN TRANSLATN HURTS A CLASSIC GAY ROMANCE
- A TRANSLATN CHANGE CAN'T MAKE THAT EVANGELN SCENE LS GAY
NETFLIX'S EVANGELN TRANSLATN HURTS A CLASSIC GAY ROMANCE
Netflix’s biggt and most troublg ed to the show, for which the platform created a new English-language translatn and voice track, dials back s famo homoerotic subtext. The new Netflix translatn waters down the homoerotic nature of one of the seri’ signifint relatnships.
Now, 24 years after Eva first buted 1995, the new, official Netflix translatn of the anime has signifintly altered some of Kawo and Shji’s most famo teractns to be ls, well, gay.
Shji then rejects Kawo wh some good old-fashned gay panic:. The homoerotic nature of Kawo and Shji’s bond has been well tablished sce the seri first aired, and has been prent throughout later stallments the anchise. But -gayg the characters shouldn’t be part of the procs.
A TRANSLATN CHANGE CAN'T MAKE THAT EVANGELN SCENE LS GAY
Kawo Nagisa (渚 カヲル Nagisa Kawo) is a gay character om Neon Genis Evangeln. The Netflix translatn also n't remove the homoerotic energy of Shji and Kawo's relatnship. The ial stct might be to assume Netflix was tryg to "no homo" the episo, but homophobic motiv seem ls likely when you nsir that a non-bary actor, Casey Mongillo, plays Shji the new dub, and that streamg service's library is filled wh LGBTQ-clive programmg.