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- Seen Sep 3, 2011
This is probably one of the best shounen anime I've ever watched. It starts off fun and mild, even kiddish. But then it turns into an emotional LANDSLIDE in the last 10 episodes. I can say that I really loved those episodes. The characters really collapsed one by one (both physically and emotionally!) and an incredible climax seemed imminent.
However, the creators ran out of money and didn't provide a solid, satisfactory ending. The last two episodes are like a radio drama with additional animation. Sure, those two episodes are intensely psychological and make you think about human philosophy, but Evangelion is NOT just a psychological thriller! It's many things: a comedy, an action series and a science fiction. Those three genres, in addition to the psychological thriller aspect, are what made Evangelion special and popular. The ending simply wasn't solid enough. You can say it was very solid by resolving Shinji's inner turmoil, but what about the rest of the characters? Asuka was left in misery at the end and her problems were never resolved (in the show). Gendou simply wasn't finished with his business apparently. He was still on "something". Now before you bring up the movie END OF EVANGELION, I'd like to note that I'm talking about the show, that airs on TV. I'd rather they released the last two episodes as and OVA and kept episode 24 (the Kaworu one) as the last, or even better, extended Kaworu's storyline EXTENSIVELY over several episodes. He was a very important character, and he gets about, like, 11 minutes of screen time.
Now on to END OF EVANGELION the movie.
I'd honestly say that the actual movie's storyline and structure is very good. The animation is incredible. But I'd have to say that it simply goes OOC (out of character). Evangelion is a shounen anime, for older teenage boys. The ending movie is blood-soaked, overly violent, and sickenly disturbing, far worse than anything that can be classified "shounen". In fact, it was rated NC-17 in America, which is strange to me, because it seemed to deserve a mild to medium R rating, and there are much worse movies that have been rated R. The character turmoils are all resolved. But then it goes all APOCALYPSE YEAH two-thirds through which really disappoints me as it seems a pretty easy way to "solve" the broken links simply by liquidating every human on the planet.
Now don't flame me for what I said about the movie. I DID say it was a good movie. But it simply wasn't a good Evangelion movie, in respect of the TV show. It tried very well to interconnect flawlessly with the original series but overdid itself in the process.
If Evangelion the SERIES had a climatic, at least solid end, it might be my all time favorite anime.
I give it 8 out of 10. Amazing concept. Captivating characters. Character-driven show. But an incomplete end.
However, the creators ran out of money and didn't provide a solid, satisfactory ending. The last two episodes are like a radio drama with additional animation. Sure, those two episodes are intensely psychological and make you think about human philosophy, but Evangelion is NOT just a psychological thriller! It's many things: a comedy, an action series and a science fiction. Those three genres, in addition to the psychological thriller aspect, are what made Evangelion special and popular. The ending simply wasn't solid enough. You can say it was very solid by resolving Shinji's inner turmoil, but what about the rest of the characters? Asuka was left in misery at the end and her problems were never resolved (in the show). Gendou simply wasn't finished with his business apparently. He was still on "something". Now before you bring up the movie END OF EVANGELION, I'd like to note that I'm talking about the show, that airs on TV. I'd rather they released the last two episodes as and OVA and kept episode 24 (the Kaworu one) as the last, or even better, extended Kaworu's storyline EXTENSIVELY over several episodes. He was a very important character, and he gets about, like, 11 minutes of screen time.
Now on to END OF EVANGELION the movie.
I'd honestly say that the actual movie's storyline and structure is very good. The animation is incredible. But I'd have to say that it simply goes OOC (out of character). Evangelion is a shounen anime, for older teenage boys. The ending movie is blood-soaked, overly violent, and sickenly disturbing, far worse than anything that can be classified "shounen". In fact, it was rated NC-17 in America, which is strange to me, because it seemed to deserve a mild to medium R rating, and there are much worse movies that have been rated R. The character turmoils are all resolved. But then it goes all APOCALYPSE YEAH two-thirds through which really disappoints me as it seems a pretty easy way to "solve" the broken links simply by liquidating every human on the planet.
Now don't flame me for what I said about the movie. I DID say it was a good movie. But it simply wasn't a good Evangelion movie, in respect of the TV show. It tried very well to interconnect flawlessly with the original series but overdid itself in the process.
If Evangelion the SERIES had a climatic, at least solid end, it might be my all time favorite anime.
I give it 8 out of 10. Amazing concept. Captivating characters. Character-driven show. But an incomplete end.
