seems 2 haev a hit-or-miss reputation from wat i've seen. i watched all teh movies and thought some of them were cool. Thoughts?Marked for deletion (Old)
havent watched any of the remakes, watched the original show on toonami or adult swim or whatever back when it first aired in USA. rented end of evangelion from blockbuster. overall i liked it and it convinced me that anime can be artistic.
Original EVA has awezum visuals - has teh movie better visuals than teh original in this regard?
>>145>has teh movie better visuals than teh original in this regard?for EoE i would say yeah. However the newer movies use a lot of CG
i watched it very recently and i expected a lot more mecha fights but the actual focus of the anime was something elsei liked it overall, the evas are cool as fuck, asuka>reimu, confusing ending but i kind of like the type of ending that doesnt give you all the answersmy only criticism is that shinji is kind of a little bitch
I watched it when I was 14 and depressed (like Shinji), so it hit me like a freight train.
I watched it in my early 20s when I was depressed and it made me even more depressed. Since then I've mostly stuck to watching happy fun anime.
>>148>asuka>reimuヽ(`Д´)ノ>confusing ending but i kind of like the type of ending that doesnt give you all the answersi had to rewatch it a bit 2 understnad what it meant... or the lack of meaning (;´Д`) EoE was a bit less confusing
>>160>ヽ(`Д´)ノi think reimu is far too alien even for meshe's cute but ultimately asuka has that je ne sais pas that makes her better>EoE was a bit less confusingemphasis on "a bit" i suppose i still want to know exactly how when and where the angels were discovered and, unless i am forgetting something, the second impact was never truly explained, kaworu's entire nature is confusing and i struggle to see what narrative significance shinji jacking off to asuka's boobs has
rei...mu?
>>164apologies i got mixed up with some other character
>>137I don't really like Evangelion. It wasn't the first "relatable depression" anime/manga I watched/read so I don't think I got the same effect from it that others did. Otherwise it is a fairly well produced show telling a story that I just didn't really find interesting. FLCL is the better Gainax project. More interesting stuff to say.
>>170flcl was meh and the sequels are particularly reminiscent of baked shit
I'll never forgive yamaga for selling off the rights to fooly cooly behind anno's back, because now idiots like >>171 will use the non canon "sequels" as a reason to shit on the original series.
>>179i re-watched the original and it didnt hold up for me, cry about it i guess
used to be a big eva fan, was one of my favorite anime, but i gave it a rewatch recently including the end of evangelion movie and it doesn't resonate with me like it used to. i still consider it a well made and directed series, but i don't give it near as much credit as i used to. funny how time can change even the things that used to be so familiar and close to your heart.i also first watched it when i was filled with self loathing and trying to fit in with the world, so shinji really resonated with me and i could see the way anno shone through in the other characters too. but something about it feels a bit pretentious to me now.
>>179I never watch sequels more than five years removed from the original so my enjoyment was intact
I've almost reached the end of the anime, at episode 25, after watching it for the first time and I think it's really good. It's pretty emotional and Shinji's experiences, especially when carrying such a heavy burden like saving humanity, hits me right in the feels. I fucking hate Asuka's attitude although I can feel bad for her because of her childhood, I guess.>>148>shinji is kind of a little bitchhttps://geocities.restorativland.org/Tokyo/Lights/8305/
>>1012that's a lot of information
>>163>how when and where the angels were discoveredi dont think it was ever explained... they just 'appear'.>the second impact was never truly explainedmai memory is fuzzy but it may haev been explained in teh PS game and/or EoE. sadly this is the case with a lot of eva explanations is that some are scattered in these adaptations/spin-offs instead of the main series... But in teh end its satisfying once you figure out wat teh fuk is happening
>>1018kaoru's behaviour is also pretty jarringthey do explain later that he is an angel but just... how? and then he comments on the big thing nailed to a cross and says it's not adam which left me even more confused and then tells shinji something along the lines of "just kill me or i will kill all of humanity". did he have a change of heart or what? and this is all without mentioning the big question mark that is reiunrelated but shinji should've had sexxorz with at least one girl or kaoru
>>1022from how i see it, kaworu's goal from the beginning was to usurp humanity. i can't quite figure out why he was working with seele, i'm assuming he was using them and what he was planning on doing did not align with what they were doing. but then he met shinji, who piqued his interest, and gave him a different perspective on humanity. ultimately, he still attempted to go through with his plan, but in the end he left the decision up to humanity to decide their fate because of the respect he gained for humanity as a result of hanging out with shinji (shinji being the representative of humanity to kaworu. both in that situation and the end of evangelion, he had the fate of humanity put solely into his hands. people who say shinji is a bitch don't understand the kind of situtation that shinji was brought into. as a confused, depressed, repressed 14 year old going through puberty who is tasked with almost single-handedly protecting humanity, nonetheless by his estranged father who abandoned him, his behavior is pretty understandable. i've had friends say they couldn't watch evangelion or didn't enjoy it because shinji was too annoying. to each their own, but clearly they weren't looking deep enough into it to understand the gravity of the situation which i feel is essential to appreciating the series regardless of how they feel about shinji in the end).i don't believe kaworu's feelings for shinji were romantic in the slightest. it was more of an alien looking in from the outside at a creature that fascinates them and that they recognize there is some things in common with them and comes to understand them in a different way than before, and he saw shinji as a great opportunity for that.the big thing on the cross was lilith's original body. from what i understand, rei was a facet of that original body that was taken out and given a human form (probably not unlike kaworu). where my confusion comes from is how kaworu/adam is integrated with that body. in end of evangelion, rei switches with kaworu to soothe shinji to break his ego as kaworu was the only one who shinji felt truly "saw" him, and despite his prior betrayal, was not scared of him like he was the girls (i don't believe shinji felt true romantic feelings towards kaworu either. he could have misconstrued his feelings as such, especially because he was too scared of everyone else and kaworu was the only one he was willing to let in, but that doesn't mean they were actually rooted in genuine romantic interest), and in shinji's mind you can see rei and kaworu next to each other talking and giving their views/advice to shinji implying that both of their "spirits" are there and that it wasn't just rei taking the form of kaworu. it could be that the original adam was integrated to become a part of lilith's original body, or that adam and lilith are the same, but i don't know i haven't really thought too hard about it.
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>>1029wait i recall someone in the anime saying lilith is actually humanity, what exactly is lilith? admittedly it's been a while since i've seen it so i may be misremembering