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Normally I don't really like Mecha shows, but this being a Fantasy Isekai Robot Mix I gave it a chance. I liked the focus on engineering and politics during most of the beginning (with the show hovering around an 8 there), but the last few episodes when the "Grand Storm" arc started around Episode 9 seemed very hurried along to finish, with what seemed like relevant and interesting plot points and major character development written off in short "several months passed" narrated sequences and fast-forwarding to the end of important battles, making most battle scenes seem somewhat meaningless and investment in the new characters impossible ... (falling to around a 6 or maybe 5 for the final episode). The final battle was also all kinds of stupid, reminding me why I usually don't like Mecha shows in the first place. This could have easily been a 24 episode Season at least.

This just seems to be a bad Action movie that barely has anything to do with either the series or the previous movies. First the exaggerated use of voices from the off just giving orders or randomly saying things in the background got out of hand for the first half hour of the movie and on my nerves. It was okay how they did it in the series or previous movies, even if not the best story-telling device, but they REALLY went overboard and overdid it here. You finally get to tell something new after years of essentially remakes and quasi-remakes, and you just let ... people yell pointless vaguely technical sounding gibberish from the off to overly flashy and equally pointless CGI effects for the entire first third of the movie while the viewer, similar to the now-collared Shinji doesn't know wtf is even going on? To top it off, the 3D Animation is worse than the more classic style in the previous movies and the new character designs and characters are kinda shit. By the point the piano thing and Shinji's romance with Kaworu started I was over it and just wanted it to end. Shinji becoming whiny again and developing into a used washrag by the end, not to say growing dumber than he's been in all previous material and throwing away his character building in the previous movie just put the lid on it.

Finally got to watch this to see why it is considered an absolute Classic and a "Must-watch". It was generally alright till the 2Deep4U episodes started really taking off near the end. Not like most of the "twists" were particularly difficult to look through, since Nerv and the Council being the "bad guys" and having ulterior motives or something to do with "The Second Impact" was hinted at from the very beginning and that the Eva's are results of unethical biological engineering and had some sort of personality and Shinji's had something to do with his mother also rather early.

Shinji was also a bit of ... an annoying brat of a protagonist. His deciding not to pilot an Eva several times, just to rethink it minutes later as if the issues he had just before suddenly disappeared, or at least without imposing some sort of limitations to secure his continued help was kind of pushing it.

Misato > Asuka >>> Rei, but really they should all be in Mental institutions and not piloting Mechs. They really needed to introduce regular Psych Evals at some point for staff hired by Nerv.

Just giving it a barely passing grade because of the kind of fun enough early parts, the Pseudo-philosophical "meaningful/deep" final episodes and epilepsy triggers, with the final one turning into a slide show just felt retarded and had me groaning. If they started the series that way I wouldn't have gotten past the first episodes. It feels like they ran out of budget near the end there.

If you're not into "2Deep4U" storytelling and episodes that feel like a waste of time, watch the movies instead.

A relatively faithful retelling of the first six episodes of the original series. Better animation than the original series and more focus on the main action/plot, with thankfully barely any swerving into annoying pseudo-philosophical territory or digressive lengthy flashbacks pulling you out of the main story-line so far.

However, there's also a lot less characterization due to this, and you barely get to see some of the side characters or relationship building due to the hurried pace of the movie compared to episodes 1-6 this encompasses, and unfortunately seemingly much less "servisu, servisu".

I'm not sure if I prefer this specific part to the series, but overall ... the movies seem better so far.

Reimagining of episodes 8-19 (-10/11/13/16) of the original series that changed many things mostly for the better. Shinji exhibits actual development and character growth here and his final tantrum is handled much better, even though I would have likely preferred it if they skipped that part altogether. Asuka seems more annoying, lacks her previous relationship with Kaji and they skipped over her psycho-trauma to the benefit of the character. Much more characterization and character/relationship building in this than the previous movie. Somewhat at the expense of Misato and Kaji, who seem to get less screen time overall. "Interesting" introduction for the new character Mari and ... lol at her breasts starting to vibrate near the end. The love triangle and competition between Rei and Asuka turned out well enough, but doesn't lead to anything. Also thankfully still largely free of pseudo-philosophy, but getting a bit silly nonetheless near the end.

This guy got to be up there with some of the worst Animu protagonists ever created going from crying like a 5 year old child to rage-wallowing in despair seem to be his main two and close to only Modus Operandi. It was pathetic in the first season, but it's getting painful to constantly watch.

And when he gets his shit together every now and then because the story demands it to be able to move forward at all, it feels forced and contrived as a result. It feels like there's hundreds of other things he could have tried that could have led to the desirable ... result, instead it's always some ass-pull about "friendship" and "love" that lets everyone survive - even though they get into situations and fights that would definitely have left them gored beforehand.