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Message: [QUOTE="diet_orange, post: 323407, member: 26675"] When I first watched it in my 20s, I felt super bad for Shinji because all the other riders are essentially assholes who're in it solely for themselves. But re-watching it now, they're more tough on Shinji solely because he's "fighting without a purpose" (playing into the show's tagline, "If you do not fight, you will not survive") in a game with a prize that can be whatever you want. A lot of the riders, especially Ren, are just completely hardened by grief and the world around them and don't want to let anyone else in [/QUOTE]

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