"Richard Qunt" <r.c.qunt@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:btvled$88k$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk: 

> Part of the appeal of Evangelion is definitely in the sheer number of
> incredibly sexually attractive female characters featured in the
> series. 
> 
> Whether it's Misato, with her fine ass and jiggly E-cup breasts
> bursting out over every top she wears, Ritsuko with her tight tops,
> short skirts, fishnet tights and stilletto heels, Asuka with her tight
> plugsuit and underage spunkiness, Maya with her cute boyishness or Rei
> just being Rei, you can't deny that the chicks make a huge impression,
> especially on the men that watch.
> 
> My question is this - would Evangelion be as popular/interesting
> without all that eye candy, those bountiful breasts, those firm
> buttocks, those long, sexy legs, that beuatiful hair?
> 
> The series provides something for the brain and something for the
> penis, which I think is quite a happy medium.
> 
> I just have a feeling that NGE wouldn't have been such a cult
> favourite without such sexual content to grab the viewer's attention.
> 
> What do you think?

I personally didn't find them all that attractive. Not even in the "if I 
was cartoon I'd do her proper" sense.

Now Faye on Cowboy Bebop.

Or the chicks on Betterman.

Niiice.

But Evangelion never appealed to me like that.

Neither did Utena.

Or Lain.

Eh, I'm animeasexual or something.