Hey no problem on being vague, its rare these days to see anyone excercise what we used to call 'basic common sense' on the internet.

But yeah to me... that was my immediate reaction to seeing all of Evangelion the first time.

Like it just seems so obvious to me. Yeah, the whole show itself is uh... dense, complicated, might have to rewind a few times to fully understand what is happening.

But the ending is so incredibly just... discontinuous with everything else.

Its too discontinuous for 'and then Shinji went completely insane/woke up' to be a reasonable explanation.

Its not that the whole anime is 'unreliable narrator'... its... just a total and cometely abrupt break. Normally the anime follows mostly Shinji's perspective, basically, but you have episodes and segments of episodes that follow another character.

Its kind of ballsy in a way, but its also kind of a cop out, but... it also well illustrates the point the writer was trying to make.

So its exceptional, basically.

But almost no one I've met whose seen Evangelion agrees with me. They all have some kind of in universe super complex fan theory... when at points its literally not even an anime anymore, it just cuts to actual real world footage of landscapes, with narration over it.

I can still remember it because it was so distinct, such an ass-pull of an ending.

I don't get how you can see a complete style shift, tone shift, everything, and its all directly telling you: life oftens sucks but thats just part of how life works, it also has parts that are nice... see all of that and then come away with anything other than 'oh the author is just now literally talking to the viewer'.

As to your ideal weekends... those all sound amazing to me. I've not got quite the same flair for written scenery description that you have, but I can appreciate it; you can well paint an image in a mind.

Many of those things I've done, either alone or sometimes with someone else... I remember once just actually being moved to tears by the beauty and serenity of a sunset in a temperate harbor/beachfront area.

Unfortunately the becoming crippled and then homeless and then barely surviving that with my life intact has... put a bit of damper on that lately.

But I was in a wheel chair 2 years ago, now I only need a cane, and only sometimes. 2 years ago I couldn't type this, couldn't open a bag of chips without a knife, right hand and wrist was too fucked up... thats still getting there, but, the doctor i saw not too long a go said I did a surprisingly good job at setting a makeshift splint. And I was able to open a sealed pickle jar for the first time in about 2 years last night!

I shouldn't have asked about tea and coffee, because I broke my teapot with loose leaf brewer thingy a few hours after I wrote that. Wrist/Hand isn't all the way there yet. And now I am grumpy because no tea and no coffee... new tea kettle (that i can probably also figure out how to make coffee in) is at least on the way though... metal this time, instead of Pyrex... sigh

I tend to take my coffee close to black, but, sometimes, a tiny bit of butter (actual butter) adds a lot of flavor... and i have been known to fix in a bit of milk and hot cocoa mix as well, if i want a 'dessert coffee'.

For tea, I like black, orange, green... chai... but the real treat is a proper dirty chai latte.

Kirby dance is a classic.

Here, allow me to ruin your life:

Kirby with anatomically accurate feet

Kirby is an Eldritch god, it only makes sense that most mortals are driven mad by his true form =P