Is this review unfinished?
Also, what, exactly, do you mean by sick? Please Elaborate.
He must\'ve used quotation marks, which for some reason cause reviews to glitch and cut off.
YasminPerry Yeah, it is. I'm actually working on redoing it without quotations so it doesn't glitch.
The review is done. I am done with this show. Nothing anyone can say will persuade me to think of this show other than Gainax\'s worse product ever conceived. I will listen to your opinions on the matter but know that this is because I enjoy hearing other\'s opinions, not that it will give me a new perspective on the show. This show has done more to me than School Days or Boko no Pico could ever hope to. This is the Adult Part Cartoon of Anime.
I love Eva a lot, but this review is well-written and quite good. I need to point out, however, that the overall messages of NGE are very positive & idealistic - Love one another; Understand one another; Love yourself. Anno just portrayed these messages in a very avant-garde way, so everyone mistakes these messages as cynical & negative, when they're in fact the opposite.
[1] Perhaps he was. However, the self-loathing Shinji has, while reviled by the other characters, is actually quite rational considering his mental scars. Perhaps if Shinji\'s angst had less of a reason to exist, or that he grandually progressed and surpassed it as the series went on instead of devolving into them more and more. The thing is about this show, since Anno is a master of the Shrug of God, we\'ll never know for certain. At least something good came out of this. Still, if I want positive and Idealistic, I\'ll watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
I see what you mean. Between episodes 1 to 13, the show goes from depressing and gritty to all-out shonen. Look at the episode with Shinji and Asuka - it\'s funny (\"We\'ll have to redraw the map again!\"), the fight at the end has this great finishing part with half of both Unit-01 and 02 making up a single robot in the last shot, and with Shinji starting to get settled in starting with Jet Alone he actually has a pretty funny argument with Asuka at the end. Then with Liliel, everything goes to shit and sets him on the downward spiral that everyone characterizes him by, everybody gets messed up and then End of Evangelion happens. Which is my favorite part of the series, but regardless.
Personally I like that, but I can understand being turned off by the heavy-handed gloom that starts to pile on halfway through the series. I recommend the second Rebuild movie, 2.22 - I honestly think you\'ll have a better time with that movie, if you have the spare time then give it a watch. It\'s pretty fun.
Also, as an aside - as messed up as Eo E makes everything, I really enjoy that it ends with a message about how you can find happiness as long as you\'re still alive, even if things are horribly bad now. It might only be fluff that caps off a weird, violent movie, but the message really stuck with me when I saw it.
MrMallard Yeah, the message that things will get better as long as you survive is a powerful and needed one. My problem is that it\'s so coated in the darkness that it becomes warped and twisted. If Evangelion had any good intentions at first, the mothod it used ruined it for me.
Still, I\'ll give 2.22 a try. I remember 1.11 and it was a little better. I don\'t want Shinji to be Simon but I\'d like it if he had just a little more confidence to give him the strength to move on. If Shinji was just a little more stable then the show would have been so much better. Hopefully, Rebuild learns from the original.
I think that 2.22 did.
3.33, on the other hand... well, 2.22 is aight. Very grandiose, a bit excessive even, but a pretty cheery take on Evangelion if you ask me. Like legitimately cheery, not hyperbole \"cheery\". I hope you enjoy it.
I personally think that the relatively lighthearted episodes that happen before the fights with Leliel and Bardiel help leaven the series and prevent it from becoming completely hopeless. I can understand that some people would have preferred if it had stayed that way for the rest of the series, but it wouldn\'t have been Evangelion if it did.
Actually, the lighthearted episodes made it worse. I would have liked it more if the series either stayed either gritty or happy, not pluging form the second into the darkest depths of the first.
On a lighter note, I will say that Rebuild is looking pretty well. I finished 2.22 and I'm watching 3.33 as we speak. While 3.33 has taken a nosedive that makes EOE look tame, it still has hope so I still consider it the right amount of dark and light many intelligent people can enjoy! Thanks MrMallard !
Hey, no problem. I\'m personally divided on 3.33, I waited for the dub and I feel a bit cheated because I didn\'t like the movie so much, but I swear by the second movie because it\'s good fun.
That’s why I always tell people to watch EoE before the original ending, to finish off on a sense of uplifting catharsis.
Anyway, I think you missed a huge point made in that film, and that people ultimately have the ability to return to their original form if they so wish. Asuka, and, more importantly, Shinji, show the mental fortitude to do that, and Asuka shows Shinji genuine affection after getting to know him from the inside out (even if she’s still disgusted by what he did). (And by the way, you should put up a spoiler warning in your review.) Humanity is not dead, but it is, in a sense, dormant. Personally, I have an elaborate theory on the deeper symbolism of the series, which has to do with meaningful air dates and kabbalah symbolism; you can find it in the Fridge tab.
Also, I found the Rebuild to be garbage. They whittled down the original complexity for the sake of flashy effects. And don’t get me started on 3.33, which screwed even that up with the horrible, horrible redesign they gave Kaworu and that dumbass haircut he got.
I know of the part about humanity being able to return to form. But either way, Shinji and Asuka were fucked. Either lose their sense of self in the LCL or live on with the memories of what had transpired in EOE. And though Asuka showed him affection, Shinji is broken in every sense of the word. He went through hell and back at least twice, life has thrown everything single piece of shit it could at him and he has been broken as a result. And with this being the end, I have to assume he never got better. At least the original ending ended with some (albeit vague and unlikely) hope for Shinji.
Oh, and what Asuka said? That\'s actually what her voice actress said about Eo E. Yeah, even the people who worked on this were sickened by it.
And I don\'t care about Instrumentality. I never did. I just wanted to see someone, anyone, get a happy or at least possibly salvageable ending. But nope, gotta make me wish I could mercy kill the entire cast. And since NGE\'s symbolism is inconsistent at best, I ignored it. I looked at the fridge tap and I must say: I still don\'t care. Nothing can make the original series any better than the worst anime, peroid. And like I said, I watched Boku No Pico so....Yeah, that.
Anyway, I\'ll get that spoiler tab up. SvartiKotturinn
Well, to each their own I guess.
(I must say though, the Bn P comparison kind-of aggravated me at first, but then it made me laugh. Kudos.)
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Sick...I feel so sick
Some call Evangelion brilliant. Some call Evangelion trash.
Me?
I think it's sick.
First, I'll give credit where credit is due and say that the series is pretty deep, especially for its time as well as the animation, especially during the fighting scenes. And the characters were all really nice and cool. In fact, Shinji forever earned my respect by standing up to Asuka and saying that he wasn't afraid and to pucker up. Ah, good times...
But many things that are good about the series rebounds and backfires on it later. The deep messages of the series slowly decay and corrupt into-Well, I'll talk about that later. The Animation stays pretty good through out the series but that really backfires when it comes to scenes like a certain group of people being disintegrated and another certain person's mental screwing. And then the animation tanks for the last two episodes, creating the oh-so infamous Gainax Ending . Personally, I liked the last two episodes the best out of the second half of the series, doing a rather good job of a character study and dissection. Then Eo E happened...
Anyway, though the characters are wonderfully built, that's possibly the WORST thing the series should have done at first. We bond with these characters, relating to them as they laugh, cry, scream, snort and live, causing the bond to grow deeper and deeper as the show progressed. While under normal circumstances this is a good thing, NGE is not normal. When the Deconstruction hits the series, it utterly shatters the Character Development that everyone went through, especially Shinji (Dear god Shinji, why?!) They are completely and utterly destroyed beyond any form of repair and because of the bond we shared with them, we felt every single hit. Everything we loved about them is shattered into dust. While this can be done well if you rebuild the characters, by not doing that we are left seeing these beloved characters forever broken beyond repair.
And you know what? That's not even the worst of it. Evangelion has a few themes about humanity, our connections to each other and the world around us. I always felt that, but when I finished the series I found out what exactly these themes are: Connecting with humanity will result in pain and suffering, human beings are questionable at best and putrid at worst, and the world is so cruel and so heartless it's just better to kill everyone.
Even the likes of Berserk and Deadman Wonderland have some form of hope or goodness in them. Here, there is no hope. There is no good. Just putrid, vile, repulsive negativity from the depths of a man's madness. I'm done.