The Type-Moon Miscellaneous Thoughts Thread

[Toa of Gallifrey]

The garden scene with Rani in Last Encore was framed similarly to when Shinji meets Rei again in Rebuld 3.0.

[Ratman]

Isn't Tri-Hermes just the Magi supercomputers in Evangelion?

Isn't Atlas kind of just NERV

I dare say Hideaki Anno had better understanding of Hermeticism than Nasu, but that's not exactly a feat.

Let me record all of humanity on a tablet, because emerald tablet, get it, even though that whole stasis stuff is entirely unrelated. I mean you could probably interpret Zepia as a gnostic yeeeting against the inevitability set up by the Demiurge, but DoO's acceptance is not very gnostic.

Something something explaining the laws of universe something something computers. This is Sion's character you're welcome, nobody thought about where it is that metaphysics become actual physics because I wouldn't waste my time reading the Kybalion and Nasu sure didn't

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I mean Nasu has very solid understanding of Matter of Britain and I'll give him that, but he's straight incapable of interpreting western magical traditions without bringing zen buddhism into it.

[SpoonyViking]

I wouldn't say that. His usage of the Armanen runes shows no sign of Eastern esoterism (at least that I'm aware of), for instance.
(I really wish he hadn't used the Armanen runes, though. Von List and his ilk are a stain on Norse studies.)

[Dullahan]

very little zen in nasu these days

[ItsaRandomUsername]

very little [ ... ] nasu these days

Appropriated and edited to reflect my opinion.

No, I don't want producer/director Nasu. I want my Mushroom back in the hot seat, for good (or at least another IP, and one where he does the brunt of the heavy lifting).

[Dullahan]

but i was told he's the one who writes all the "actually good, no really, I swear" parts of Eff Gee Oh, what to take away from this

[ItsaRandomUsername]

I won't deny his contributions to things that happen behind the scenes, but I will express disappointment in him not showing any indication that he's working on my theoretical, ideal, Type-Moon's Renaissance-inducing new IP.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

I dare say Hideaki Anno had better understanding of Hermeticism than Nasu, but that's not exactly a feat.

Let me record all of humanity on a tablet, because emerald tablet, get it, even though that whole stasis stuff is entirely unrelated. I mean you could probably interpret Zepia as a gnostic yeeeting against the inevitability set up by the Demiurge, but DoO's acceptance is not very gnostic.

Something something explaining the laws of universe something something computers. This is Sion's character you're welcome, nobody thought about where it is that metaphysics become actual physics because I wouldn't waste my time reading the Kybalion and Nasu sure didn't

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I mean Nasu has very solid understanding of Matter of Britain and I'll give him that, but he's straight incapable of interpreting western magical traditions without bringing zen buddhism into it.

Admittedly, there was a lot of interaction in the Mongol era between Hermeticism and Buddhist tradition, with the latter definitely influencing the former and maybe vice versa?

[Deathhappens]

Admittedly, there was a lot of interaction in the Mongol era between Hermeticism and Buddhist tradition, with the latter definitely influencing the former and maybe vice versa?

I admit I don't know the first thing about Hermeticism, personally, but I would wager that neither did the Mongols. And traders plying the Silk Road are more likely to have been concerned with proliferating profit-bearing ideas (gunpowder, for instance) than obscure -even for its time- occultism.

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I mean, I've never heard of a Buddhist presence in Europe at the time, either.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

The Mongols were well aware of Hermeticism, Neo-Pythagoreanism and other esoteric knowledge, particularly since they sponsored such intellectuals in their courts and in fact used it as a means of sovereignty. Also, the interactions between Hermeticism/Abrahamic esoteric knowledge and Buddhism happened primarily in Mongol Persia and China, in the Islamic world, but even then, esoteric knowledge in Europe and the Islamic world was one and the same for the most part. I could go into a whole lot more detail, since I just learned all of this this semester under a professor who is one of the leading experts in the early modern Eastern Islamic world, but I won't for now.

[falseCeilings]

Do you recommend any resources/books on the matter? I find the topic very interesting.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

One book about the interactions between Buddhism and Islam that my prof recommended was Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by Johan Elverskog, and I actually attended a talk the latter spoke in, and he seemed quite knowledgeable. Also, any other topics you might be interested in?

[falseCeilings]

Thanks! I recall hearing about a Tantric Buddhist Guru who taught a group of Muslims by appropriating the latter's vocabulary (i.e. Allah as a word for Buddha nature/Emptiness), it may very well be from that book. Anything that deals with interactions between spiritual/occultist traditions of the East and the West probably interests me to some degree or another, so anything that particularly stands out to you as informative, I'd appreciate.

[You]

Was watching End of Evangelion yesterday night with someone
Realized that Beast 3 is just Giant Rei

Beast 3/R

The inside of her body has already become a single universe, the Sukhavati.
Those brought inside her will disappear from reality, having their egos removed and their reason melted away.
No matter what kind of robust body or defensive armor one might have, they are meaningless inside Kiara’s body; they are all rendered powerless like a newborn existence and liberated from earthly desires and the woes of man.

Turning into the floodgates of all the desires of humanity, she ushers the souls of people into her body by Code Cast Banshokuyuutai and creates a whirl of billions of pleasure.
The whirl of pleasure melts sapient beings and transforms their lives into the sublime in the twinkling of an eye.
It is the birth of an ephemeral but eternal Land of Bliss.

Beast 3/L

If one's struck by this Noble Phantasm inside Kama's universe, they might witness a hell────or perhaps heaven-like spectacle where 『Without distinction, Kama dispatches herself (clones) everywhere, burning and exhausting the universe with her one-sided love』

Spoiler:

And also Yui's goal for Eva to be proof that humanity was alive. Is pretty much exactly DoO's plan with Hermes + storing humanity as philosopher's stones.

Man, just realizing how much Nasu loves this series.

[Toa of Gallifrey]

Nasu's love for Utena, Eva and JoJo knows no bounds

[AmADo VII]

Beast II was inspired by new Godzilla movie too, Kinoko just loves Anno.

[Dullahan]

loves?

or is stuck in a rut and unable to move beyond thematic territory anno covered 20 years ago

[SpoonyViking]

Spoiler:

Was there supposed to be something here, You?

[You]

Was there supposed to be something here, You?

does it not show up?

[SpoonyViking]

Not for me, at least.