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Neon Genesis Evangelion is 20 today.

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If not for the whole necessary extreme reboot-retcons, the first rebuild movie sorta is a pretty great compilation movie of the first few episodes
 
It does an impressive job of world-building, its character and mechanical designs are good, and its scenes are put together really well for a TV series.

Too bad both of its endings are so unsatisfying. It's like they were making up all the show's Deep Mysteries as they went along. So when it came time for a conclusion they exited in a pile of symbolism and technobabble like some sort of ninja smoke bomb - twice.
 
tuffy said:
Too bad both of its endings are so unsatisfying. It's like they were making up all the show's Deep Mysteries as they went along. So when it came time for a conclusion they exited in a pile of symbolism and technobabble like some sort of ninja smoke bomb - twice.
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The manga technically wins out in terms of the most of satisfying conclusion to the story, but it does so in a way that betrays the overall tone/theme of the series (especially EoE).
 
I didn't hate Shinji until Rebuild came. Though its partly fault of everyone around because they didn't fucking explain anything, specially in 3.33 everyone told him he shouldn't pilot an Eva again but they didn't tell why, then Kaworu tells him to stop trying to get the lances and he fucking does it anyway! I think that's the worst part, just by talking the problems would be solved, but everyone became Gendo in 3.33 :(
 
The EoE ending is perfect. I can understand people not liking the TV ending but the EoE last scene is like, the greatest. There is a very fine line for making a story while leaving plot threads unanswered and EoE is a great example of that as a success while 3.33 is a great example of that falling flat on its ass. if you want your audience to ask questions, the question shouldn't be "What the fuck?"

Edit: Okay, more like "What the fuck why did this suck so bad"

It should be able to end in a satisfying way without feeling like a lack of an explanation hampered the overall narrative.
 
Haven't watched this series since it was first released on DVD.

Tempted to re-watch as I'm sure I didn't pick up on everything my first go around.

Do you see this series getting the special boxset treatment after the last movie is released?
 
I still don't understand the story! I watched it like 3 years ago and I thought it was good and the animation made me nostalgic for that old school anime but man I laughed so hard at the ending of the series and immediately afterwards I watched EoE and the beginning with that scene, I was on the floor laughing and that kinda ruined the mood for the rest of the movie because I didn't take anything seriously. I've watched the Re: movies but there is a gap in my memory were I don't remember anything about 2.22 because 3.33 is like a completely different story and its going to repeat again when 4 comes out because I already forgot what happened at the end of 3.33. Anno's mind is 2deep4me.
 
wait, so Evangelion and Yoshi's Island debuted on the same day?!?

what a coincidence.

also the reason i watched Evangelion about 4 years ago was a silly one. i watched it because there were constant gags about it in Gintama and i wanted to have more context for the gags (also, it's not the only anime i've watched due to Gintama)
 
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My god... Its perfect.
 
My favorite part about Eva is slowly watching the budget collapse on itself until we're left with nothing but squiggles and storyboard panels.

It is a great anime regardless. I watch the TV series every year.
 
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Great show, great concept, and I always liked how to EVAs use was both powerful but very limited (that 5 min battery). Despite the praise I'm happy to give, I'd love to see the final movie and have them done with the whole ordeal finally. :P
 
GKSilKamina said:
My favorite part about Eva is slowly watching the budget collapse on itself until we're left with nothing but squiggles and storyboard panels.

It is a great anime regardless. I watch the TV series every year.
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The ending is so hilariously bad it's great, people defend it to death but it wasn't a style choice it was one borne of necessity. They made EoE basically to make sense of the ending they had to make because they had no money left.
 
One of my favorite TV shows. As time goes by, I keep finding more reasons to like it, and that can't be said about most things out there.
 
Cmon guys, The Wrath of God In All its Fury is the most hype song in the series.

Makes destroying enemies in any videogame much more epic
 
Easily one of my top three favorite animes. Evangelion, Berserk, and Cowboy Bebop.

Not a big fan of the new movies though.
 
I remember in Attack on Titan when the kids are about to get killed by the cowardly military and the not-Shinji kid throws his hand up and his Titan materializes a torso to block the fire and that's a straight rip-off of actual-Shinji accidentally driving the EVA to block some debris from killing Worst Girl Rei.

I think that's the first time I ever noticed an homage to an anime and I felt pretty
dirty
about it.
 
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One of the greatest. Cowboy Bebop is my favorite, but Evangelion is my most watched. Anno is a genius.

Baka Shinji
 
ZeroTheShadow said:
20 years of overrated trash. Every single bad anime sterotype wrapped up in one incredibly mediocre package.
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I may be wrong but this was pretty much the point of Evangelion. It was a deconstruction of giant robot anime. While Gundam took giant robots into a more realistic world, Evangelion took all the cliches of giant robot anime, singled them out, and turned them all up to 11 with existential meaning or dread behind each piece and with more symbolism than you'd think you could fit on a single screen. For this, it was truly unique.

Mediocre... Well this may be attributed to the long silent set pieces meant to evoke thought or what seems like hastily written endings. Some believe this is done intentionally because of the same thought that went into everything else and some believe they just ran out of road. Who knows.
 
This was an honest to god life changing anime in terms of what it made me think about at the tender age of 8 when I first started watching it.
 
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