Shay Guy: Comparison contested as the initial setup of S&WH40k is a for-want-of-a-nail story that pushes the canon's protagonist onto a different path and illustrates, step by step, how he develops from there. NXE is much more in-your-face about its changes from sentence one, said changes are different kinds of changes, and...well, Bhepin never gave Shinji lines like "I mean, granted, I -am- the world's most handsome and sophisticated fourteen-year-old boy, but what good is that to NERV?" It's perfectly legitimate to like one and not the other.
To me NEE feels... mid. Like, aggressively so.
It feels like it really loses track of where its going halfway throughout and manages to stay coherent through only a heroic effort of sticking to a scriptline. A lot of the pacing especially for the actual angel combat is....
Why????
It just *feels* off.
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unsigned review
I always liked it for one reason, one that a lot of people miss: It's essentially Shinji And Warhammer 40 K before it was a gleam in Charles Bepin's eye. It downplays Eyrie Production Unlimited's self-insertion antics to insert a snarky, kick-ass action hero into Evangelion's damned colon, giving EVERY NAMED CHARACTER IN THE SERIES A CROWNING MOMENT OF AWESOME. Yes, even freaking Gendo. If you like Shinji And Warhammer 40 K and don't like this, you're a damned member of the Hate Dom and should just freaking admit it. The writing is exquisite, and even though Shinji is initially replaced, he gets an in-character development which provides fulfillment for the fans. To say it gets a lot better after the first few chapters is an understatement.