Basically put, NGE has great presentation and riveting action, but it's themes and plot, while potentially quite good and meaningful, are hard to follow and you'll likely be left confused by the show and end up reading some wiki articles or forum posts trying to make heads or tails of what you just watched. If NGE spent anytime at all trying to present it's plot and themes more coherently then it would be an amazing 10/10, but instead it chooses to be obtuse and mysterious in the weirdest ways possible. I think the epitome of my gripes with this show is how they just drop random proper nouns with no context and then never even try to clue the audience in on what they mean. Like some character will just be like "At long last the Book of Fleembis, the key to Glungo's Dominion" and then never explain or even give any clues as to what Fleembis or Glungo are ever. Obviously I made up my own nonsense words, but they literally do stuff like that and it's pretty annoying.
NGE is hard to recommend for those reasons. Overall I think it's a unique and worthwhile watch even if it's kind of half baked, or rather overdone, in many aspects. Just be prepared to be a little lost and don't feel ashamed to google stuff you still don't understand when all is said and done. What is does well, it does really well and if you meet it halfway it does have a lot to it once you start to unpack it. It's one of my personal favorites even if it is very far from perfect.
