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Added 2025-05-20 21:49:35 +0000 UTC
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One correction here is that it was Gendo that Ritsuko was referring to, he had an affair with her after her mother. And Gendo sent her to that ambiguously humiliating/degrading treatment from Seele in place of handing over Rei to be interrogated, basically meaning that he handed her off to an uncertain and awful fate (possibly grape?) in order to keep Rei’s nature a secret from Seele.
Bamberoni
2025-05-20 22:37:32 +0000 UTCYou know what’s funny, even as a kid for some reason Ritsuko was always the character that interested me the most by the end. This truly brilliant woman, really a genius. But inside racked by loneliness but unable to admit it. And so she turns to a man and finds human meaning - not excellence like with her work, but meaning in connection, in love - and she devotes herself to that, despite the fact that she knows logically that this man is duplicitous and deceitful. Because she longs so much for love that she accepts what she ultimately, in her heart, knows is a poor facsimile of the real thing. She hated her mother as a woman because she so recognised that in herself. I don’t know if you’ve watched the next episode yet, but I’ll leave it there. Ritsuko is an incredible character, and the way her story is so subtly told is just a master touch.
Roy Koopa
2025-05-20 22:23:22 +0000 UTCI like that Angels are learning
puremetalcore
2025-05-20 22:02:09 +0000 UTC
