So, the famous Neon Genesis Evangelion. This anime makes debat into animes fans, more precisely because of his end (which has changed twice by Gainax by the way, but here I will only talk about the end of the TV Show.)
To begin, Neon Genesis Evangelion have many good points.
The animation is very good, fluid during fight, express well the feelings of characters.
The atmosphere is unique, they are currents things that are repeatings and forms an overall unique.
OST are in harmony with scenes and have a huge number of sides (slice of life, fight, epic, sad, reflection, tension).
The opening is just legendary, everybody know him.. Even if I would say that it's too much 90's for me but anyway.
It has also bad point:
The rythm changed always ! Sometimes we take our time to tell us a long story, are the fights or hyper details, and sometimes we have big ellipses, rush action or explanation, it's a bit weird sometimes but not very annoying.
There is a tsundere.
We don't really know that kind of anime we have in front of us. At the beginning I was thinking about a mecha-fight anime, after we had a lot of slice of life scenes, sometimes a lot of feeling, and finally, phisophics and reflections aspects.
The real subject is, the end.
The 2 lasts episodes are successions of plan from previous episodes with new dialogues about philosophics aspects introduces incompletely in all other episodes.
But this is why, for me, anybody should complains about this end. This apsects are here from the beginning of the show ! Yeah they are push to the limit with this end, but this form of reflection has always been here!
In addition, for me, this debate of characters into themsleves, these introspections were very interresting and are links with notion of the real world, also if it's maybe a bit long, and hard to follow their reasoning.
But when we are accurate to reflect, and success to identify their problems with problem of the real world, it becames non-borring, and may be interresting !
So, if you haven't problem with this kind of deep reflection, no problem from this point.
But, if this end isn't that bad it-self, it isn't the best conclusion for this anime.
Some things aren't conclude, or are again confused, while an other end would do the job.
And we don't really know how to consider it, in what categorie we have to class it.
Maybe the second end "End of Evangelion" will do it better.
