Story 2
I kept watching this anime for and only for the awesomeness of the mecha's. I've heard that if you watch the movies the story for this anime makes more sense... Would you take the chocolate chips out of a cookie, to eat the cookie first and then eat the chips last? No, you would naturally eat the thing as a whole. Back to the anime, there is no explanation, no decisive battle between good and evil, no chocolate chips at all, just a terrible attempt at a psychological battle within a character who has the whiniest, most annoying and difficult to comprehend personalities in any protagonist ever. -EPIC FAILURE-
Art 6
The mecha's were amazing for their time, the characters and their piloting outfits all looked sweet. Its too bad the focus of the anime is psychological and not action. There are a lot of good art sequences during the battles but the flashes of random garish colors and etc. that make up psychological segments are absolutely dreadful. About 20 percent of the anime consists of sweet mechaness. 60 percent is decent everyday life art, and the last 20 is the often annoying and senseless art thats suppossed to overwhelm your sense logic.
Sound 5
Nothing to get excited over, the sound gets an average score of 6. It would of scored higher except there were far too many alarms, and annoying beeps, even police or ambulance sirens completely randomly and pointless in the middle of the night in a high tech city.
Character 7
The characters were generally as bad as the rest of the criteria, there were a few saving graces. The main character was too flawed to be anything more then annoying especially during the 2 episode psychological trip. Rei and Misato were definately interesting though, as well as some of the side characters.
Enjoyment 3
The battles were the only thing worth watching. Luckily enough for the first half of the anime the battles were frequent. Don't get me wrong the drama could have been okay but the resolution and delivery of it all was an epic failure.
Overall 5
Most definately a love it or hate it anime. The scores represented here are all over the place as you can see. I tried to evaluate it solely with the criteria in mind but the ending average looks higher to me then i feel it should be. Watching this anime was such a disapointment to me. Ah well.
