I've just finished watching The End of Evangelion.
For your instance, I have not watched Death and Rebirth of Evangelion, nor the two first Rebuild movies things.
So here is my critc, or my opinion, or not even... I think it tends more to my feelings, my perceptions toward both of the anime and The End of Evangelion. I really want to talk about it. There might be SPOILERS so be careful. I'm tired. I wrote this in french around midnight.
Imagine a "WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN..." type picture here.
Fuck. I have never seen a franchise playing this far with his viewers. It is the first thing I want to talk about. You got the final credits in the middle, after the real 25th episode, the author who is thanking some people but in fact you got one name and then an epileptic thing, the real life scenes, the scenes of a real theater, with no one, and then it is fully crowded, and then theres no one again... You also got one or two messages directly adressed to the spectator... And the final "bonus" chapter, completely weird, the abrupt end, and the word is weak... I feel... How could I say that...
And here is the problem. I don't know how to define this feel. Oh, yes, I like it, it makes me think, consider, analyze... But... I got the impression that I have been raped. Oh, and I sure do not know what are the feeling you get when you're raped, but as I don't have a proper word to put on (for now) and that theres a special context, I put the word rape on this feeling. So, if we add the fact that I liked it, I've been raped. And I liked it. I know that the author was depressed while he was writing NGE. And then we understand why the two last episodes were censored, rewrited. I have never seen so much sex scenes in a non sexual anime/fiction. There is the begining of the movie, with Shinji masturbating at Akusa, in coma. Or the reminder of the sex scene between Kaji and Misato... There is so many, more or less suggered...
And what about the story? Tentacling. And tentafucking. My ass is still on fire. It is, at the same time, simple and complex. The worst is that, with a little thinking, we can understand the story. But at the very end of The End of Evangelion. And not the whole story and background.
For all those facts, I have decided to inflict The End of Evanelion the note of 10 out of 10. The anime has been given a 9 out of 10.
