I mean I'll say this much, just watching it. It doesn't do the trope shit. Like it does, and then it doesn't. Because it's Hidiaki Anno having a mental breakdown every so often/commenting on society bullshit. This would be weird to start with, then you watch a 6/10 Iseaki.
I plan on it. I find this fascinating in the same way I see some of old Star Trek. You watch and rewatch.
Pretty much, until you remember that 6/10 isekai is likely literally taking cues from NGE, it's that unescapable.
I'll keep those in mind. And yes the influence is inescapable.
TTGL has a higher peak when it comes to scale, but KLK was just so much more of a fun experience for me and is one of the few weebshit OSTs that I own. Still two of my favourite series and I love that Nobuyuki Hiyama is in both.
Best worst girl is Misato.
Evangelion wasn't my first anime, but I think it was my third or fourth that wasn't random Transformers episodes or Ghibli movies, and it's what locked me into anime for a good time. I was OBSESSED with it for months afterward; the only other anime I've been so obsessed with were the Brave series (especially GaoGaiGar), Harlock, Xabungle, and SEED Destiny. At the time I had never seen anything that combined apocalyptic, spiritual woo-ish stuff with sci-fi in such a cool and mysterious way, though I think part of the impact was that it was the first darker, more mature media I had seen that wasn't something I had to read for an English class. I read the manga in three or four days over my Christmas holidays and watched End of Eva a few days before Christmas; I associate End of Eva with Christmas now because of that. Immediately afterward I searched for anything like it I could get my hands on, which led me to other Gainax stuff like Gunbuster and TTGL and other mecha anime like Nadesico, Macross, and Gundam. Eventually TTGL led me to GaoGaiGar and the Brave series (I had heard of the Brave series before from the Transformers fandom, but it was J-Decker being compared to Kiss Players for having humans fall in love with robots so that turned me off of it for a while) and Getter Robo, and that got me into mecha stuff permanently. Nowadays I think Eva is, objectively, pedophilic hackery that steals its story from better shows like Ideon and Ultraman when it's not stealing shots from OVAs like Iczer and Orgun, but I do have nostalgia for it and it will always be special to me. I'd disagree with the statement that there's no other anime like Eva since it goes over many of 0079's story beats (the ending of 0079 feels a lot like End of Eva), Iczer-1 and Orgun have a similar aesthetic and backstory, Ideon captures the futility and helplessness of Eva, and any of the "Eva clones" like Rahxephon or Aquarion capture the general feeling well. I'd even argue that Aquarion does Eva's schtick better than Eva because the villains aren't just mindless beasts, the character-driven crap is woven into the story better, and the messages are fresher (and therefore more profound) due to being so random and weird at times as well as positive and inspiring.
Lordgenome and Viral are my favorite characters. The soundtrack and mech designs are really good and the final Giga Drill Breaker against Anti-Spiral is pure kino.
Sora Iro Days hits harder than Before My Body is Dry, even though they both hit hard.
It was basically one of mine, outside of anime films. I'll always have a soft spot for it as a result, even if now I can see how flawed it was.
I'm coming back to this, now 10 episodes in. Misato is a trainwreck, but you know she gives mad pussy. That is how I feel about the woman with a dedicated shelf for malt beer in the fridge.
I'd say RahXephon also has better visuals and designs than Evangelion since it has more vehicles that aren't just ordinary tanks and planes. I was really enamoured with Evangelion's screen designs when I first watched it, and I still like them, but the screen designs of SEED/Dendoh/Cyber Formula OVAs are right up there as well.
When I mean designs I dont mean only mecha designs but overall look. The displays are an excelent example of how much evangelion is carried by visuals.
I think I've seen this phone before. The flip phone would be REALLY cool to have; I'd use it shamelessly even if it makes me come off as a manchild weeaboo.The phone in 2.0 was a real phone and the aesthetics were much in line with evangelion own aesthethics.
The outside look really looks like something straight up from NERV.
I absolutely agree. Evangelion 2.0 really feels lived-in, and because of that it's the best Eva media alongside the Anima novels. It's amazing that they bothered with details like showing an empty meeting room when all the skyscrapers are being collapsed, the gates closing during the Clockiel battle, 02 getting transported on a truck (I know other shows like Dougram have transport trucks, but the realism of Eva's setting makes it cooler) and that NERV truck (I think there was a Tomica of it, but I can't find it anywhere). The main reason the timeskip seems so interesting is because it would expand on all the meticulous worldbuilding and backstory of the Rebuilds, but that's never going to happen.
It's like how fans tend not to like the earlier TV episodes when they're the best since they still have a workable animation budget and it hadn't yet devolved into schizo hobo ramblings.
