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Welcome to "You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Neon Genesis Evangelion When..." This page was inspired by actual events surrounding me and my friends (and later other Eva fanatics) after extensive viewing sessions of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Of course most of these are exaggerated for humor, but began none the less in reality. So please enjoy my list, and if you find yourself doing any of these things please cut back on you're Eva intake. Thank you.

This is what you came here for...here's the list of symptoms. Enjoy. But be warned...

it's a long list.

  • ...You carefully watch End of Evangelion to determine whether Ritsuko really DOES type "I need you." and complain loudly when you figure out, through careful pausing, that she has only typed "I need."
  • ... You lie in an empty bath tub mumbling about your "synch ratio zero..."
  • ... You describe yourself as an "empty vessel yet to have a soul," and have bloody bandages in a box in the corner of your room.
  • ...You insist to your friend who works at the Zoo on naming the newborn penguin Pen-Pen.
  • ...You decipher the Sephiroth Scale of the Ten Divine Names and read over it for fun.
  • ...You hear about a friend getting a virus on his computer, and immediately try to recall all of Ritsuko's keystrokes.
  • ...Every time you see a dirty room, you think of Misato.
  • ...You meet a guy in reality named Shinji, and can not help but wonder if he and his father hate each other.
  • ...Because you found a guy named Shinji, you are confident that you will find Rei and Asuka
  • ....You smack people in the face and tell them that it's a bargain viewing rate.
  • ...Your friends expose themselves back.
  • ...You were the only one of your friends who didn't think the Rei figurine with the detachable head was creepy.
  • ...You get highly offended when your friend tells you if it's hot out, you should take your sweater
  • ...Ouzo disappointed when the school guidance counselor says your not cut out for NERV employment.
  • ...You watch Trainspotting and Eva 0:13 in the same session, run to the front door, throw it open and scream: "CHOOSE LIFE!"
  • ...No, mom, you're not supposed to say 'Ohh, hi honey.' Here's how it works: I say "I'm home" and you reply "Welcome home."
  • ...You sit in your chair with nothing to do and you say "I never thought that doing nothing could be this exhausting"
  • ...To ask for an impossible favor you offer a steak dinner.
  • ...In the Playstation game "Rival Schools" you always Use akira as your back up character, because of her team up move.
  • ...You know the Names of all the NERV techs.
  • ...In Social Studies class your teacher say to makeup an island. You name your island Eva and
  • put the capitol Tokyo-3.
  • ...You start acting like you favorite Eva character.
  • ...Your friends go to Japan and you throw a fit when they don't bring you anything back that
  • has to do w/ eva.
  • ...You get a Renault Alpine and try to park like Misato...and succeed.
  • ...You say, "It's hot" and your friend replies, "Yes."
  • ...You start to bathe more frequently because it cleans the mind and soul.
  • ...Half a maple leaf with the words "God's in his heaven, All's Right with the World" appear
  • in your dreams.
  • ...You arrest your son when he doesn't come out of the car, and tell him that it is against the law to use the car in a personal vendetta.
  • ...Your computer opens with Thesis of a Cruel Angel and closes with "Fly Me to the Moon"
  • ...You keep on having flashbacks of yourself crying at age three when your mother disappears.
  • ...When you wake up in a hospital, the first thing you think of is a giant eye.
  • ...You get fired from your job as a street painter when you start painting the streets with signs to warn motorists there is an EVA plug ahead.
  • ...You know the subtle differences between the translation of the Japanese version and the dubbed version.
  • ...You saw Kaoru in Slayers Try.
  • ...You dido see Kaoru in Slayers Try because You were too busy watching Eva.
  • ...You see a window overlooking a large room and you avoid it because you're afraid that Unit 00 will go berserk and try to smash it.
  • ...You blame passengers for creating "thought noise" when your car won't start.
  • ...You get in your friend's new Volkswagen and you begin thinking "bratwurst, strudel..." and other German words so you don't mess up their synchronization.
  • ...In an awkward situation, you say nothing and stand perfectly still for an entire minute.
  • ...You just start singing "Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dooooown"
  • ...When asked to point Tokyo out on a map, you ask "1, 2, or 3?"
  • ...You arrive to the conclusion that Rei is not mentally insane.
  • ... You try to work out, genetically, if a 1/4 Japanese girl could have red hair and blue eyes.
  • ...You wish you could replace a V8 engine with an S2 engine.
  • ...Real girls start to look less attractive
  • ...You start seeing lines, zigzags, and other thickly drawn shapes in black on a white background in your dreams.
  • ...Every time you dream, Shinji's voice repeats, "Enemy. Enemy. Enemy! ENEMY!Ó
  • ...You're pissed that your city doesn't have buildings that rise up out of the ground like Tokyo-3 does.
  • ...You make a large hand-shaped indentation in you lawn and tell people that you narrowly missed being crushed by a falling Unit 01 because you were between two of its fingers.
  • ...You don't pay your power bill because you think that "all the power in Japan is yours ."
  • ...You slap anyone who hates their hard-to-know, emotionless father.
  • ...You go to driver training, and when the instructor asks the class to explain why it's unsafe to pick up hitchhikers, you scream, "You can't allow unauthorized personnel into the entry plug!"
  • ...Whenever you kiss your boyfriend, you hold his nose because "it tickles my face" then run off to the bathroom and start gargling madly.
  • ...You tell people that your computer was programmed using your mother's personality, and it was divided into: Your mother as a woman, your mother as a parent/mother, and your mother as a scientist.
  • ...You know almost all of the lines word perfect and when you watch an episode you can speak along with it.
  • ...You make up an EVA drinking game (see Links Page).
  • ...After you watch something you say "That was nothing compared to Evangelion."
  • ...You take a psychology course just so you can better understand the mental conditions of all the characters of Evangelion.
  • ...You learn to read Japanese just so you can play the Evangelion card game, or read the imported manga you just bought.
  • ...You talk to someone for the first time and talk to them about Eva even though the donor even know what anime is.
  • ...You sign everyone's yearbook " Gods in his heaven allots right with the world"
  • ...You actually know that Robert Browning wrote that.
  • ...You decide to learn Japanese just so you can view the series in its unabridged, undubbed, unsubbed glory.
  • ...When a girl complains she's on her period and you say "So? That shouldn't affect your synch ratio."
  • ...You think about EVA more than you think of your Girlfriend/boyfriend.
  • ...You want to get the same Walkman as Shinji.
  • ...When in a sticky situation you say " I mustn't run away ... I mustn't run away" over and over.
  • ...Ouzo doing a writing sample for school, you write one including every Eva character you can fit, and Tokyo-3. Your teacher thinks it's highly original. You think it's hilarious.
  • ...You convert your basement into an underground shelter just in case an Angel attacks.
  • ...You realize that your friend CJ's name's closest translation in Japanese is Shinji.
  • ...You scour the nation's school uniform stores searching for Rei/Asuka's dress.
  • ...You take offense when your beloved calls you angel.
  • ...Your boyfriend tells you he's getting a second job, and you shoot him.
  • ...You buy a Frank Sinatra CD just so you have another version of "Fly Me To The Moon".
  • ...You spend more money on Eva merchandise than on food.
  • ...Someone asks you to send them a .wav file for them to identify you by, and you send Asuka
  • shouting, "Are you an idiot?!"
  • ...You give someone a lecture on tenshi vs. Shinto and they say "Enough, I've already heard it!"
  • ...You cried when you finished the last Eva movie.
  • ...You have ICQed people out of the blue because their nicknames were Eva-related.
  • ...You brag to your friends that you match more items on this list than they do.
  • ...You plan on getting having a baby in 2001 so that they'll be old enough to be pilots, then kill yourself so they'll be "motherless children ."
  • ...You do your final paper in English class on Eva.
  • ...Your friends who have never seen the series start making up symptoms after watching you talk about Eva
  • ...You do your psychology thesis on the psychological themes in Evangelion.
  • ...You legally change your name to one of the Eva characters
  • ...You realize that you'll be 29 and your best friend will be 30 in the year 2015. (Misato and Ritsuko)
  • ...You realize that for every character in Evangelion you have a friend similar to him/her.
  • ...You actually noticed it when, in Genesis 0:1, the roof of Misato's car was dented and two seconds later it was perfectly flat.
  • ...You noticed when Ritsuko's earrings weren't attached to her ears.
  • ...You noticed Misato's earring change in Genesis 0:1 from suns to pearls, plus, she never wears the sun earrings again.
  • ...You find it kind of funny that this page is on Angelfire.
  • ...You make a costume and dress up as ...Ouzo favorite Eva character.
  • ...You go to Project A-Kon X, and pester Tiffany Grant to give you a sound byte for your Too Much Eva page.
  • ...Your father hires you to work at his organization because he has a use for you.
  • ...You make a club called Seele.
  • ...You start using NGE characters/situations anytime you are asked to make comparisons in a Literature class.
  • ...The only discs that seem to be in your CD player are Eva soundtracks, and you have a 6 disc changer.
  • ...You tell your (Female) classmates that they would make great mothers.
  • ...You sell pictures of a cute classmate to other students.
  • ...Your E-mail has a user name related to Evangelion.
  • ...You only visit pages about Evangelion.
  • ...You have the scripts of the 26 chapters.
  • ...You have the scripts of the 2 movies.
  • ...You never get tired of visiting pages like this.
  • ...When you nitpick the series to create your own symptoms.
  • ...When angels don't seem heavenly anymore.
  • ...You believe that your AT Field will protect you from anything.
  • ...You find this website so funny because you can relate with every SINGLE thing (man, ain't that scary!)
  • ...Your emotional outbursts include the words "antabaka", "bakat nanikateneyo" and "kirai!" without you even noticing.
  • ...You actually time if it really takes less than 20 seconds for Asuka to destroy each of the Eva series.
  • ...You hold group discussions to determine the true interpretation of the End of Evangelion.
  • ...In these group discussions, you can never never EVER agree
  • ....These cartoon characters are more real to you than any person you will ever meet.
  • ...You play Rock/Paper/Scissors with your roommate to divide up the chores.
  • ...You understand exactly what is happening at any given point in the series. Even during the psycho-babble!
  • ...You tell your unenlightened friends about Evangelion all the time, even though they have no idea what your talking about.
  • ...You name your children after the pilots.
  • ...You refer to your basement/wine cellar as terminal dogma
  • ...You buy a purple car, just so you can get personalized number plates that say "eva01"
  • ...Volcanoes erupt, and you tell your friends that an angel has awoke inside the magma.
  • ...You think its normal to have dreams about Eva characters, especially blue haired, red eyed ones.
  • ...You have a dream about piloting you own Evangelion.
  • ...You go into a jewelry store and get upset because You can't find a cross like Misato's.
  • ...You try to mix your own LCL in Chemistry Class.
  • ...After reading a list like this you realize that more than half of them describe you.
  • ..........and you're damn proud of it.
  • ...You insist on bringing a video camera to school and taping everything in sight.
  • ...You are in withdrawal because you do not have access to new NGE material.
  • ...You have visited over 20 NGE sites in the last week!
  • ...You notice that halfway through the series Misato switches from Yebisu Beer to Boa Beer.
  • ... Your best pickup line is "Do you want to become one with me?"
  • ...You have tried to use "Do you want to become one with me?" as a pick up line.
  • ... you stare at a complete stranger, thinking 'wow, he/she looks just like (fill in character of choice)
  • ...You start to hate your father. Immensely.
  • ...You check this webpage to see what symptoms you haven't come down with yet.
  • ...You start to fantasize about Asuka coming into your room, falling asleep beside you.
  • ...You can listen to 'Fly me to the Moon' for, oh, say a billion times and not get sick of it.(Of course it helps when there's 20 different versions of the song.)
  • ...The world as we know it is about to end and you pick up a six-pack-a-Yebisu beer and go back to watching NGE.
  • ...You write an e-mail to Riff 13 to tell him about your symptoms of watching too much NGE.
  • ...You cried when you saw the scene where Ritsuko destroyed the dummy plug.
  • ...You whacked anyone who even dared to say anything bad about EVA.
  • ...You go to the supermarket to look for Yebisu beer.
  • ...You start to clasp your hands together and rest your head on them like how Gendo does it.
  • ...You run to the kitchen, grab something hot and burn your hands. Then you can tell people about how you risked your life to save Rei's.