- ...You automatically refer to your car as
Unit 01.
- ...You have trouble synchronizing with your
car.
- ...Having a penguin as a pet doesn't seem
that weird to you anymore.
- ...You think "God's in his heaven. All's
right with the world." makes sense.
- ...You actually understand what I'm talking
about.
- ...You dye your hair blue for no apparent
reason
- ...You know all the characters' birthdays.
- ...You start calling your dog Pen-Pen and
wonder why he doesn't like his new fridge.
- ...You would do absolutely anything for
that Nerv jacket.
- ...You do Misato's "oookay?? Oooookay."
thing.
- ...You think of Shinji every time you say
"Yes, ma'am."
- ...You're lying in your bed and you can't
help but say "Another unfamiliar ceiling"
- ...Your teacher assigns you a research paper
on your favorite city. You turn in a full report on
- Tokyo-3.
- ...You Convert to Christianity because of
Eva.
- ...This web page is an accurate reflection
of your life.
- ...You go scuba diving in a swimming pool.
- ...You believe in A.D.V.'s slogan For Eva
"Gospel for the New Century. The End Of Man."
- ...Nothing on this list seems that unusual
to you.
- ...You learn German just so you can understand
what Asuka is saying. (This seems to be a common symptom.)
- ...You see the sun breaking through a batch
of storm clouds and you avoid it at all costs so the Angel can't unravel
your mind.
- ...You make a Too Much Eva page. (sigh)
- ...You look at the dates on Yui's grave and
get the chills because the birth year is way too close to yours (if
not the same.)
- ...Your electric razor comes unplugged and
you wonder why it stops because the internal battery should have 5 min.
of power.
- ...You grow watermelons. ...You go to the
UN to apply for a position in Nerv.
- ...You think you're best friend is an Angel
because he acts like Kaoru.
- ...You went to the Ross Ice Shelf on Sept.
12-15, 2000 to witness Second Impact.
- ...You want to make hundreds of blue haired
female clones.
- ...You have fantasies about Rei, Asuka, Misato,
Ritsuko, Maya, or all of the above.
- ...You start a small Eva following at your
workplace.
- ...You start picking out the cast to the
live-action "Neon Genesis Evangelion" series.
- ...The thought of Church frightens you simply
because they talk about Angels.
- ...You would pick Rei (or any Eva female)
over you current girlfriend.
- ...You start asking pet shops what their
prices are on penguins.
- ...You have a female friend with short hair
and you ask her to dye her hair blue and get red contacts.
- ...You wonder where you'll be and what you'll
be doing in the year 2015.
- ...When your teacher asks you to explain
thermal expansion you ask one of the girls in the class to warm her
breasts with her hands, and then ask someone else in the class if he
thinks her breasts will get larger or smaller.
- ...You put a small motor on your switchblade
so you can have your own Prog. Knife.
- ...You know who Mana Kirishima is.
- ...Your father tells you to kill your best
friend. Twice.
- ...You refer to your room as Central Dogma.
- ...You want to trade places with Shinji.
- ...You get a Nerv tattoo.
- ...You get a fake Nerv ID card.
- ...You have a small Eva following building
at your school.
- ...'Thesis of a Cruel Angel' is your song
of the day, and it's playing through your head in both English and Japanese.
- ...You start muttering nonsensical Eva-related
things in a social situation.
- ...You have a shrine dedicated to Rei, Kaoru,
Kaoru and Shinji together, and the entire cast.
- ...Eva posters decorate your room.
- ...Your birthday and Christmas wish-lists
are more than 90% Eva-related.
- ...Your computer software has a bug in it,
so you initiate the self-destruct sequence on your computer so that
the two can "coexist."
- ...You hop into a friends car and fear that
it might reject you.
- ...After a trip to Japan, you're crushed
because you never found Tokyo 3.
- ...A German transfer student comes to live
with you, and you question her about her previous piloting experiences.
- ...You don't know who was the famous general
in the war of 1812, but you know all the details of Eva 04, which wasn't
even completed.
- ...You noticed that in episode 12, Misato's
eyes are one shade lighter than they normally are.
- ...You check episode 12 after reading the
previous line to see if it's really true.
- ...You have enough Evangelion images to
wallpaper your neighborhood.
- ...You still get tense wondering what will
happen next, even though you have seen the episode six dozen times.
- ...You seen every episode at least five
hundred times, and it still hasn't worn thin on you.
- ...It never dawns on you that others don't
care about Evangelion.
- ...When you're feeling down, you ride the
subway from dawn till dusk.
- ...People forget you exist because all you
do is watch Evangelion.
- ...You have a favorite version of "Fly Me
To The Moon."
- ...You walk out of the room in the middle
of a conversation without saying a word.
- ...Your head hurts.
- ...You think the Maji are a computer system.
- ...You own all 26 episodes plus both movies.
- ...You think it's a good idea to watch the
entire series in one sitting.
- ...You have a friend who looks exactly like
your mother.
- ...You think that the conspiracy in The X-Files
is no big deal.
- ...You have a pet penguin.
- ...You believe that Angels are evil.
- ...You've read the Dead Sea Scrolls just
because of Eva.
- ...You press a button on your left wrist
to tighten your plug suit, and realize that you just reset your watch.
- ...You understand what Shinji is going through.
- ...You greet your friends with "I am the
(your name here) that exists in your mind."
- ...Your friends return your greeting with
"And this is the (friend's name here) that exists in your mind."
- ...You refer to yourself and your siblings
as 1st child, 2nd child, 3rd child, ext.
- ...You use Twister mats to synchronize your
movements with others
- ...You and a friend of the opposite sex
dress exactly alike.
- ...You think of Eva whenever you hear Handel's
Messiah.
- ...You have a dream about having a conversation
with yourself on a train car.
- ...You have nothing but evangelion sites
as bookmarks.
- ....When ever your schools alarms go off
you think an angels attacking.
- ... You wake up in the middle of the night
and scream "Ayanami!"
- ...After watching the entire series, go
into into a deep depression for a week, and come out of it understanding
the plot in evangelion (even the psychobabble stuff.)
- ...You spend days trying to figure out the
outcome of the end of eva if unit-02 had an s2 engine.
- ...You think that "mankind has no time left."
- ....You buy a mobile phone, but don't give
the number to anyone, just so you can have a Phone that never rings
.Ó
- ...When you see a friend in hospital, you
bring them a fresh plug suit, a meal and begin briefing them on the
Operation Yashmak timetables.
- ...When you are asked what its like driving
another persons car, you say "It smells like _______ insert owners name
here."
- ...You've taught yourself to write all of
the characters names in Katayama.
- ...You're desperate to get a Japanese compatible
PC so you can play all of Gainax's EVA related games.
- ...Someone starts crying and you say " I'm
very sorry, but I don't know what I should do or feel at a time like
this."
- ...You begin to feel uncomfortable around
large groups of noisy people.
- ...You catch yourself wondering why you
pilot an EVA.
- ...You're afraid to cut your chinos umbilical
cord for fear he'll only have five minutes of life left.
- ...You get to know your UPS man really well,
because he's always over with Eva stuff that you
- sent away for.
- ...Your Spell checker now knows all the
Eva vocabulary, because that's all you ever write about.
- ...You wish that you could have been part
of the fan-dubs for Eva.
- ...You buy an Inkjet printer just so you
can make Evangelion T-shirts.
- ...You request that Cartoon Network show
Evangelion.
- ... You traded your Playstation for a Saturn.
- ... During a sudden blackout, you think
that the your computer's voltage regulator will provide reserve power
for only 5 mins. flat.
- ... The animated Godzilla reminds you of
an EVA.
- ... You believe that unfriendly people have
a strong AT Field.
- ... You think that you will be replaced
by a clone if you die.
- ... You start referring to everyone with
"baka." (Sadly this is another common symptom.)
- ... You know what "SEELE" means.
- ...You think your mother died, merging with
an Eva.
- ...You go to Egypt and every time you look
at the pyramids, you see NERV!
- ...You look at happy faces, and you see
Sachiel.
- ...The city's power goes out and you think
Ramiel has arrived.
- ...You beat up a newly transferred student
for hospitalizing your little sister with his poor driving.
- ...Your classmate gets a better test score
than you, and you blow up at him, like Asuka does at Shinji.
- ...Your friend and her mother both have
an affair with the same man and die.
- ...Every time you pick up a pair of chopsticks,
you can help but think of the Longinuss Spear before you separate them.
- ...You suggest your company change their
elevators from having digital floor counters, to little sliding panels
that click.
- ...You forget to unpack your boxes of stuff
when you move into your dorm for college, and just lie there on your
bed staring at the ceiling.
- ...You have a friend that keeps dying, but
mysterious, she turns out OK every time.
- ...You lie awake at night, wondering what
Gendo said before he shot Ritsuko.
- ...You know what Gendo says to Ritsuko before
he shoots her ("Aishiteruyo"= "I love you")
- ...You walk out of church screaming Acts
of men are better than acts of God.
- ...You paint the top and bottom of your
room black with the tree of Sephiroth.
- ...You buy three computers, network them
and call them Casper, Melchior and Balthasar.
- ...You think your car "smells a lot like
blood"
- ...You start calling Maggi noodles MAGI
noodles.
- ...You start standing like Rei, one arm
at your side the other folded across your chest.
- ...You notice the significance of the shape
of the explosions that Sachiel makes.
- ...You suddenly find yourself writing nothing
but NGE fan-fiction, many of which star you as a pilot with your own
Eva, or stories biased on it (With so much in common you can't tell
the difference between the two.)
(This is another very common symptom.)
- ...When your immediate reaction to a confrontation
is to apologize.
- ...When you pull out a stopwatch and time
the Elevator Scene, and the Should-I-kill-Kaoru Scene.
- ...You demand to have your room moved to
the basement and an escalator installed so you too can have a Central
Dogma (don't forget the UFO catcher doll of Lilith to tack on the wall!)
- ...You make a point to dress like Shinji
(not hard to do).
- ...You wonder why there are over 300 Star
Trek figures, but no affordable Eva character figures.
- ...You start living on beer and instant
food.
- ...You search EVERYWHERE for the car that
Misato has. (Ito a Renault Alpine, thanks to everyone who sent me this
info.)
- ...You start up a cicada farm in your backyard
just so it sounds like you are living in Tokyo 3.
- ...You try to find some deep meaning in
everything the characters on NGE say including Pen Pen.
- ...You know more about Shinji then you do
your own brother.
- ...You announce when you are leaving a room.
- ...You talk about, dream about or write
about NGE daily.
- ...You exclusively wear warm ups to school.
- ...You play 'soldier' in rice fields, by
yourself.
- ...You mutter nonsensical German in annoyance.
"dummkopf."
- ...You spend days wondering why Asuka's
plug suit is baggier than Rei's before she tightens it.
- ...You watch episodes 4 and 6 to check for
yourself.
- ...You become a vegetarian just because
Rei is.
- ...You buy a cello so you can be like Shinji.
- ...You notice every time Ritsuko's eyebrows
change color from brown to blonde.
- ...You get worried/excited whenever you get
called to the principal's office because you're afraid they want to
talk to you about piloting an Evangelion.
- ...You decided that it's a good idea to
"kiss to kill time."
- ...You notice that in episode 21 Nerv Security
refers to Kaji as Ryoji Kaji, but his security card says "Ryoji Kaji"
putting Ryoji as the family name, while when the characters speak (dub)
they ware saying Ryoji as the first name and Kaji as the family name.
- ...Your CD/DAT player will only play tracks
25 and 26.
- ...You stop shaving in honor of Kaji.
- ...You have a thing for blue-haired girls.
- ...You've watched The End Of Evangelion
while intoxicated. (Lord help us this really happened.)
- ...You wont go swimming at the beach because
your afraid an Angel is in the water.
- ...You think that an EVA pilots headset
should be the latest fashion item
- ...Red/blue haired girls make you nervous.
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