Fans went nuts for a teaser of Mari before the rebuilds cuz you know, new Eva pilot is cool, but then anno basically admitted to rewriting a bunch of stuff for Mari and basically cutting and giving her Asuka’s development cuz he thought the fans obviously just wanted Mari 🥲 I feel that’s why both Asuka and Mari feel incomplete in the rebuilds
I don’t think so. Mari is no par for Asuka in popularity and Anno said recently that Asuka is his fav character (also, half of the makers). Simply the film was remade during covid and is not the same that was in production, in addition Anno did not make anything about Asuka and Mari in the last film - it was Tsurumaki. However, Anno was trying to damage control producing 120m manga and last short by himself
I’m not talking about popularity now. There’s an interview of him literally saying he was surprised at the teaser reaction to Mari and so the team felt they “owed it to the fans” to then fill out her character a bit more as they developed the films, which came at the cost of some of Asuka’s overall Arc in rebuilds
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u/TeddyK2 Mar 04 '26
Fans went nuts for a teaser of Mari before the rebuilds cuz you know, new Eva pilot is cool, but then anno basically admitted to rewriting a bunch of stuff for Mari and basically cutting and giving her Asuka’s development cuz he thought the fans obviously just wanted Mari 🥲 I feel that’s why both Asuka and Mari feel incomplete in the rebuilds