First, music was AMAZING! Opening song was hands down one of the most iconic one ever. It gets the viewers pumped up for the anime.
The story was good, there wasn't much development but over all it was gripping. The only problem was that the pacing and the execution of the episodes were messy and all over the place. There's nothing spectacular about the art style and animation, they were both old fashioned since the anime came out in 1995.
The main reason why I decided to watch it again is because of the hear-say about the production of this anime, I'm not sure if it was the director, Hideaki Anno, that was said to have suffered depression during the making of this anime. Now, that I am an adult, I was able to notice and absorb the anime more compared to just watching it back when I was a kid.
Half way through the series, everything was all over the place. It felt so unorganized and messy. The crisis that the production was experiencing reflected on the anime. Black screens with text, still frames with voice overs. There was literally 45 seconds of still frames towards the last few episodes. No sounds, no dialogues. Just one frame of a scene for 45 seconds.
I felt that the internal monologue of Shinji somewhat reflects the directors psyche while battling depression.
Finally, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE ENDING ALL ABOUT? I didn't get a single thing about that ending.
