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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- A TRANSLATN CHANGE CAN'T MAKE THAT EVANGELN SCENE LS GAY
- NETFLIX'S EVANGELN TRANSLATN HURTS A CLASSIC GAY ROMANCE
A TRANSLATN CHANGE CAN'T MAKE THAT EVANGELN SCENE LS GAY
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.
NETFLIX'S EVANGELN TRANSLATN HURTS A CLASSIC GAY ROMANCE
Kawo Nagisa (渚 カヲル Nagisa Kawo) is a gay character om Neon Genis Evangeln. Many fans argued that the more explicly romantic relatnship between the two was both an important part of the story, and of Shji's character velopment; and as such Netflix changg the scene was harmful to the story, if not also homophobic. Is Shji gay?
When Kawo appears, (loosely translated) Asa exclaims "oh great, 's that homo-boy", to which Kawo repli "I really wish you wouldn't make statements like that, when you lack any evince for them", reflectg the bate about the character. [56] In 1998 reviewer Kenh Lee cricized Kawo, sayg: "Ultimately, the homosexualy issue seems nothg more than cheap shock value tactics to stun generatn X"; he nsired the entire Shji-Kawo relatnship "ludicro", as he thought Shji receptivens to Kawo was implsible and "irratnal". [57] It should be noted however that Japan had a long history of very overt homosexual relatnships media and even anime, and that Eva would not have any need of hidg any for fear of censorship like a Wtern work might need to, even 1995.
'"A Very Pure Thg": Gay and Psdo-Gay Them' Anime Explosn! Episo 24, you’ll rell, is the Kawo episo, which asi om the homosexual overton (probably not actually an issue), ends wh, er, a pop.