All the other characters with this ideology just felt so cliché all the times however in emiyas case its actually well developed and explained so it makes me believe that he takes his ideology seriously unlike the other ppl who just took it up
And again no. There is something way deeper when we talk about Emiya's idiocy. Yes, he is an idiot without a doubt, but the story is so developed that you can understand it. His motivation has a root.
No man. When I think about F/SN, I think about the Visual Novel. And not the anime or the movie, they were done awfully. And for God's sake, Nasu's works do have action but they're not shounens (when I say shounen I mean some typical retarded stuff like "I'll protect you!" or "I got nakama!" added to a lot of fights).
Sigh....The fate/stay night anime can be considered shounen ,but the visual novel is definetly not shounen relook your definition of shounen man -.- and no the fate zero anime is also not seinen only the light novel can be considered seinen.
I don't know about "influential." It's kind of hard to tell things like that when virtually everything the series does were already sci-fi conventions when it used them. You brought up the First Ancestral Race and Seed of Life so I'll use those as an example. They're really using two incredibly common Sci-fi tropes with that. The Precursors, which dates all the way back to speculation about ancient Atlantis, and Panspermia, a pseudo-scientific hypothesis that grew to prominence in the late 1800s-early 1900s. The science behind it may have been incredibly questionable, but it was still interesting enough to draw a lot of attention from science fiction writers. As such, it's really difficult to gauge how much influence NGE has actually had on the creative community. It was popular, certainly, but that doesn't equate to influence.
I am aware of those concepts. Frankly, Star Trek Next Gen handled them both much better. For that matter, so did the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Xenogears and Doctor Who. There were actually two reasons I didn't bring them up. 1. They're really more important in the series than they are in the film. 2. If I brought up every single point where Evangelion did poorly I'd have to write a dissertation rather than a review. So I left out some of the aspects that were just kind of stupid but not too horrible.
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It doesn't really matter whether or not it is a character study or focused on symbolism. The fact is, the story sucked.
If Eureka 7 is Neon Genesis Evangelion, then it is Neon Genesis Evangelion done right.