The dismembered limbs that litter my floor

While in Japan, I fed a great many hundred-yen coins into vending machines to purchase teeny little figures of Neon Genesis Evangelion anime characters. Proving either that everyone was just as annoyed by the main character, Shinji, as I was, or else that the fetishization of female characters has completely taken over, only figures of the female characters are available. I ended up with one Misato, one Asuka, and about six Ayanami Reis in various costumes, which is appropriate for spoilery reasons.

But unlike my beloved Fullmetal Alchemist figures, the Evangelion ones are both modular and shoddy. (Except for Misato, who is tough and hanging in there.) Also, my cats enjoy batting at them, causing all their limbs to fall off and their hair to fall off in two pieces, leaving behind an armless, limbless, legless torso in a schoolgirl uniform or pilot suit, beside a hairless head. It's so grotesque that I'm thinking of banishing the figures to a drawer.

It's just like my reaction to the show: an initial burst of enthusiasm, than the horrified realization that it's falling apart before my eyes.

The dismembered limbs that litter my floor

While in Japan, I fed a great many hundred-yen coins into vending machines to purchase teeny little figures of Neon Genesis Evangelion anime characters. Proving either that everyone was just as annoyed by the main character, Shinji, as I was, or else that the fetishization of female characters has completely taken over, only figures of the female characters are available. I ended up with one Misato, one Asuka, and about six Ayanami Reis in various costumes, which is appropriate for spoilery reasons.

But unlike my beloved Fullmetal Alchemist figures, the Evangelion ones are both modular and shoddy. (Except for Misato, who is tough and hanging in there.) Also, my cats enjoy batting at them, causing all their limbs to fall off and their hair to fall off in two pieces, leaving behind an armless, limbless, legless torso in a schoolgirl uniform or pilot suit, beside a hairless head. It's so grotesque that I'm thinking of banishing the figures to a drawer.

It's just like my reaction to the show: an initial burst of enthusiasm, than the horrified realization that it's falling apart before my eyes.