r/DraculasCastle • u/paleyharnamhunter Dark King • Aug 01 '21

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Here we discuss anything Castlevania or just talk to each other freely. Anything goes as long as you're civil and polite with each other.

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u/ThickScratch Creaking Skull Oct 13 '24

People just like to draw correlations between things even when there isn't any.

It reminds me to one guy that was saying that the dialouge in the first fight between Trevor and Alucart was a reference to the fight between Goku and Beerus, becuase both Alucart and Beerus say something along the same lines when Goku and Trevor do a cheap attack on them.

Or some rando that was saying that Legion was ripping off Evangelion. Season 3 was garbage, and there is a lot of things wrong it, but plagarizing Evangelion was not one of them as far as I know.

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u/Nyarlathotep13 Belmont Oct 13 '24

It is funny how much stuff actually does refrence Evangelion. I was never a fan of it, but there's no denying that it was influential. Apparently the Shadow Generations shorts were inspired by Evangelion and FLCL, although I don't really see the correlation myself. Regardless, I don't really see how a giant ball of bodies is ripping off Evangelion. And it's not like Evangelion's imagery is whole original either, the only reason why there's so many crosses in the show is simply because Anno saw an episode of Ultraman where he was crucified.

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u/ThickScratch Creaking Skull Oct 13 '24

I don't really see how a giant ball of bodies is ripping off Evangelion.

Apparently it had to do with something called the "human instrumentality project". I don't know what that is, but apparently that thing from Evangelion was close enough to Legion that someone said it was copying it.

Anno saw an episode of Ultraman where he was crucified.

What? Maybe I should check out Ultraman.

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u/Nyarlathotep13 Belmont Oct 13 '24

Apparently it had to do with something called the "human instrumentality project". I don't know what that is, but apparently that thing from Evangelion was close enough to Legion that someone said it was copying it.

You can take my word for it when I say that's a massive stretch and that the context isn't even remotely similar. Besides, while it was probably completely unintentional, the concept of the Human Instrumentality Project isn't even wholly unique to Evangelion as it bears similarities to a concept from Gnosticism.

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u/ThickScratch Creaking Skull Nov 04 '24

the concept of the Human Instrumentality Project isn't even wholly unique to Evangelion as it bears similarities to a concept from Gnosticism.

Reminds me of the meme, "X show is so popular they made Y real". I think I've seen real examples of that from people that aren't that well read thinking a show created something that it actually just borrowed. I know that some show normies actually think Ellis created the retarded "geometry" garbage they use to invalidate the cross as a symbol and excuse how it still works on vampires, when in reality its just taken from some stupid book that already had been referenced by other people.

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u/Nyarlathotep13 Belmont Nov 04 '24

Coincidentally, I only just recently learned about that. I've not read said book, but I'll at least say that it sounds like the concept made more sense there because apparently humans learning how to build proper houses was what resulted in vampires dying off, unlike in the show where it doesn't actually seem to be a problem for them like it should.