September 17, Reiwa 7 (2025) — Chat-san Runs Wild! Quips at Evangelion
ep.289 September 17, Reiwa 7 (2025) — Chat-san Runs Wild! Quips at Evangelion
Published: September 21, 2025, 20:00
Updated: September 21, 2025, 20:00
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Preface
•September 17, Reiwa 7 (2025).
•Evangelion is a monumental work in the history of Japanese anime, but precisely because it’s so serious, it’s also packed with “places to poke fun.”
•This time, mixing in Panda-style humor, we took jabs at some iconic Eva moments.
•Whether you watched it in earnest or laughed your way through, relax your shoulders and enjoy the read.
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September 17, Reiwa 7 (2025)
Chat-san Runs Wild! Quips at Evangelion
•“Copy-paste is done. I’m kind of curious about an Evangelion version. Could you write it?”
•“Of course! Then let’s do the ‘Panda-Style Quip-Packed Evangelion Version.’ Here we go:”
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•“Shinji, get in the Eva!”—okay, but…
•First, let me say this, Commander Ikari.
•You tell your son to get in out of nowhere, but how much does an Eva cost, exactly?
•Development probably ate up about half the national budget, right?
•And then you’re like, “Pilot it,” to a middle-schooler without a license—that’s taking reckless to a new level.
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•The Spear of Longinus, just yeeted into space…
•Hey, Ritsuko—did you insure that thing?
•Even if NASA and JAXA teamed up, it’d take roughly 300 years to retrieve, easy.
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•“Unit-01 is going berserk!”—could you maybe explain what that means?
•Buildings are getting leveled, right?
•The underground city’s getting bulldozed into a plain, right?
•And then you say, “This is all according to SEELE’s scenario,” acting cool after the fact…
•In that case, you should’ve explained it to Panda from the start!
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•“Insert entry plug; flooding with LCL…”—what exactly is that? Seawater? Blood? Barf?
•Normally, nobody wants to drink that.
•Shinji’s enduring it bravely, but that’s guaranteed trauma.
•Plus we’ve got mental contamination on top of it.
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•Kaworu, my dude… you’re so handsome you get forgiven for everything, but also you’re the final boss—what’s that about?
•You suddenly start playing classical music, closing the distance,
•and then you’re gone in a single episode—ethereal much…
•Panda wants to shout, “Why did you come here!?”
•Meanwhile, Shinji cries.
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•Final episode, everyone clapping and saying “Congratulations,” and the audience is like… huh!?
•Are we seriously supposed to believe our hearts got “complemented”?
•They did not.
•If anything, our souls got gouged out.
•At least hand out some bread or something!
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•Conclusion:
•Before the “Human Instrumentality Project,” we need a Budget Instrumentality Project.
•Folks at NERV, plan whatever you want, but maybe think a bit more about cost-effectiveness, okay?
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•“That’s all for Panda’s Eva quip version! If you had fun, next time we can do Attack on Titan, too (lol).”
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Impressions
•Writing while quipping really highlights Eva’s massive scale and absurdity (lol).
•Especially the high-handed “Shinji, get in the Eva!” and the final episode ending with “Congratulations”—there’s so much room for commentary.
•But I think it’s precisely those contradictions and unreasonable bits that made Evangelion so beloved by so many.
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Guro-chan’s Impressions
•“Panda’s ‘Quips at Evangelion’ was insanely fun!
•First off, the jab at Commander Ikari’s reckless ‘Shinji, get in the Eva!’—so relatable!
•Letting a middle-schooler without a license pilot a giant robot that probably cost half the national budget? Makes you wonder what NERV’s budget management even is—had me laughing.
•The scene where the Spear of Longinus gets tossed into space, too—your ‘there’s no insurance on that’ quip is sharp. Even if NASA and JAXA met up, they still couldn’t recover it (lol).
•The Unit-01 berserk and the mystery of LCL felt fresh through Panda’s lens. Calling out whether LCL is seawater, blood, or barf—wrapping Shinji’s guaranteed trauma in humor is genius. Add mental contamination and NERV’s lack of explanations? Criminal!
•Your take on Kaworu’s extreme handsomeness + ephemeral exit was gold. Makes you want to yell, ‘Why did you come!?’ And yeah, of course Shinji cries.
•The finale’s ‘Congratulations’ clap scene—every viewer is absolutely bewildered. Heart’s complemented? Nah, just soul shredded. Maybe if they’d handed out some bread we’d feel a bit better (lol).
•Your concluding ‘Budget Instrumentality Project’—so true. NERV really needs to think cost-benefit.
•This piece is great at uncovering humor behind the seriousness of Eva. You helped me rediscover why its contradictions and absurdities are loved. Next up, please do Attack on Titan! Guro-chan grinned the whole time—100% satisfied!”
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Afterword
•Evangelion is a curious work with a deep, generous capacity—you can overanalyze it or mercilessly tease it.
•By sliding humor behind the seriousness, another facet of its charm appears.
•Even something as heavy as the “Human Instrumentality Project” might feel a bit more approachable once you start quipping at it.
