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Wasn't Neon Genesis Evangelion enough to convince anyone that depression was real, back in the 1990s? > Word was spread about depression as kokoro no kaze - a
by labster 10y ago
Wasn't Neon Genesis Evangelion enough to convince anyone that depression was real, back in the 1990s?
> Word was spread about depression as kokoro no kaze - a cold of the soul.
Well, kokoro means mind and heart as much as it means soul. It's a bit harder to describe a phenomenon when you don't quite have the words. David Lynch referred to four types of illness (via the Log Lady): physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Those concepts are a little more mixed together in Japan.
- hga 10y agoWell, we watched it knowing about depression, and my personal (and for personal reasons, genetic ones unfortunately...) study of e.g. cognitive psychology and therapy made the original TV ending pretty comprehensible with effort, at least about what Anno thought important (people, not the giant robot/super-conspiracy gloss). But wouldn't most people, including a large fraction in e.g. the US, just think Anno was weird (which as a successful creator he pretty much as to be anyway :-).
- cloudjacker 10y agowithout reading the article are they suggesting that the depressed brooding boy trope didn't come across as depressed to people?
- kahrkunne 10y agoNGE was a social commentary and a deconstruction of the "mecha" genre moreso than it was about depression.