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A review of Eva and EOA
a bit of backstory
Around 5 years ago,I read the evangelion manga,since a lot of people told me it was the best anime and that it was complex
Silly me thought it was an adaptation,it wasn't,I didnt like it, i decided i should watch the end of evangelion,since the manga was unfinished
I didn't like the characters much,but I was in high school and in that time,
I always finished what i started watching.
It was a fucking mistake,I felt the story was too bogged down by symbolism and the characters were a joke.
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After years of ranting every time I heard about evangelion on comment sections of the internet
I decided I should go back and watch the anime series,hopefully thinking that I was wrong and there was something worth of my time back then.
Let's start with the good:
The design and the sound
All of the characters visual design are iconic
the backgrounds work
it has a certain atmosphere that gets to you,
If there's something flawless in the franchise,its this point,the music,shiro sagisu's work is good mostly,certain moments are great and interesting,
Certain tracks get you a bit pumped even by themselves
The original voices,are fitting and not annoying for the most part.
Now,for me,characters and story are the important parts of any series,it's here where the series lack,see,the characters.while a little bit more developed than say,knights of the zodiac,are not relatable or sympathetic
See Shinji,starts as a coward character,who halfway through the series,seems to get some courage,but by the end of it reverses back on his old ways,in the manga i hated him,in the series,he's not that bad,at least not for the most part but for me,bringing him back to that cowardly position is a bad choice,why delve into someone's mind if you dont like him or find him interesting at all.
Asuka's even worse,I had to take her annoying voice as a child on the brink of murdering someone,she's not likeable,her backstory is very simple and boring,her motivations are very silly,proving herself to Kaji and later just to anyone.
Rei is as dull as they come,she's even worse than her manga counterpart,just a line here or there. At least there she had a hint of a relationship with Shinji.
The rest of the cast is hit or miss
Gendo's motivations are confusing,he's less likeable than his manga counterpart as well
Ritsuko tacked-on backstory feels silly
The kids,toji and the one with the glasses are ok,whoever decided to kill Toji in the manga deserves a punch to the face.
Kaji is still a womanizer but we dont see a lot of him really
Misato instead,comes off as a better character on the series,we delve more into her relationship both Shinji and Kaji,she has motivations,she cares,she's just a woman in a storm of crazy confusing plots
The story for the most part,is a generic mecha monster of the week show with a mystery ,while some questions are answered,most of them are not,at least not in a clear fashion self concluding way,
What do i mean by this,see,the creators made such a mess of a series that they sometimes answer questions of the series in conferences,which are then spewed out by fans,
To me,this isnt satisfactory at all,a series shouldnt have its questions answered outside of it,its like buying a ticket for a ride and instead someone's telling you what happens in the ride
Back to the series,its mostly episodic just right before the ending we get some good drama,but it gets undercut because of budget problems and the series shows it specially in one scene in episode 23 or 24
There's a scene where it tooks a whole minute to move out of a frame,I couldnt believe it,what a cheap way to fill time,there's another where it's a thirty second wait,there's half an episode of clips
The animation of the battles though,is another story,they're fluid and sometimes beautiful.
I could've accepted time filling if it wasn't for the bad part of the series,see,the author was depressed before making the series,this is his way of getting out of it and it shows
Tts filled with half ass references to Freudian and Jung psychology(One of them is outdated and ridiculous,The other one symbolistic) and philosophy,which also fill time by getting this repeating scenes,
See,im all for anime or movies dealing with those two subjects if done well,the execution of the series and movie is piss poor
The movie continues the series where the show after two episodes of filler and bad philosophy left off,Shinji's been broken down,all the angels have been defeated but for some unexplicable stupid reason Seele wants to cause the third impact and so does Gendo,which makes all the series rendered moot and stupid,hurray!
We get someone jacking off,good action scenes,misato being cool,gendo being an asshole,this is all fine and dandy until we get a trippy scene which then breaks down into some avant garde scene with video of an audience on a movie theater,images from japan, text and clips from the show,the movie then ends with the line that defines the whole franchise:how disgusting(whether its i feel sick or how disgusting is a problem for the subs)
See,most people who read this will probably assume that i came back with a bit of prejudice,i did somewhat,but i really wanted to like the series
I just couldnt,at best it's mediocre,if ignore the bad philosophy and psychology
At worst,it feels like a high school essay on both subjects,in the end,
I just didnt like it,i felt peace while rewatching the series though,my mind finally rested from the torture of the doubt if the series was any good,if you want a better series with self conclusion stories,that deals with heavy subjects,go watch ghost in the shell or lain
This is a cult anime show,only for the hardcore fans who get too much into it,if you're a newbie,i say take a pass and go do something better with your life
EDIT 2015:
In hindsight,with now new knowledge that was given to me by some internet posts. I still stand by me decision to give it a 5. Mind you I should post some old Locomotion channel trailers that promise God vs Humans. This was misleading. Also,I kind of expected Evangelion to be more like the original Mobile suit Gundam 0079. Yet to fault it because it is not similar. It's stupid. Without Gundam,there is no point to Eva. Eva is the watchmen of mecha anime as watchmen was to superhero comics. It is about deconstrucionism. I don't like deconstructions. To me they are very fucking boring
If and only IF I compare it to modern anime,I would give this a 7.
At least EVA tries and has ambition.
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