There’s a lot of talk right now on twitter over how the new special edition reprints of Sadamoto’s Eva manga has been changed.
Most noteably the line
“Boys can’t love other boys” was changed to
“There’s no reason for such a thing !?” along with some frame redraws and cleanup.
Personally I think it’s odd Shinji was given internalized homophobia in the manga, but it’s a bit too late to change it now after its been out for so long. I don’t know whether these special edition manga will come out in english.
OMG YES LOL there’s actually a post that talks about this too (with the help of Google translate lmfao) basically this artist recreates this scene and Kaworu like bro it’s “Reiwa” period now I thought “lilin are more progressive and over those primitive ideas” and Shinji’s like “you is a man I can’t like men”. Kaworu continues like, “you’re telling me if I wasn’t a guy you would like me” and Shinji gets flustered. Ya Japan Twitter is having long discussion about Kawoshin and it’s pretty interesting. I swear it’s kind of frustrating for the new edition to blatantly cover this up. Like out of all the stuff I’d want to erase is Shinji’s chokeholds (like gad dam chill Shinji).
Twitter source
