Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
October 4, 1995
Status:
Completed
Summary:
In the year 2015, the Angels, huge, tremendously powerful, alien war machines, appear in Tokyo for the second time. The only hope for Mankind`s survival lies in the Evangelion, a humanoid fighting machine developed by NERV, a special United Nations agency. Capable of withstanding anything the Angels can dish out, the Evangelion`s one drawback lies in the limited number of people able to pilot them. Only a handful of teenagers, all born fourteen years ago, nine months after the Angels first appeared, are able to interface with the Evangelion. One such teenager is Shinji Ikari, whose father heads the NERV team that developed and maintains the Evangelion. Thrust into a maelstrom of battle and events that he does not understand, Shinji is forced to plumb the depths of his own inner resources for the courage and strength to not only fight, but to survive, or risk losing everything.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is a decent Anime, which suffers from overhyping and some obvious flaws.
The Story is actually quite good... if you bother reading a wiki or a fan-summary, because the series itself does not narrate as much as one would like and seemingly abandons its story altogether halfway through the series.
The shift in tone and style is so strange that one can only shake his head and wonder why there are so many die-hard-fans of it. The mythology of its world and the the presentation and design of it are very good and unique nonetheless.
Dialogue is mainly a hit and miss, sometimes its good, sometimes its very bad.
The animation and action is great for a 1995 series. The only problem with it is, that its VERY obvious they cut the budget of the series halfway through it, so the resorted to reusing shots, using still-images or shots with very little animation.
If you let youself imersed into the world and if you like apocalyptic settings with religious references and awesome design, then you will still be entertained by Neon Genesis Evangelion. The only problem is that the main character is one of the least likeable main character i ever came across, and he is the central figure of the psychoanalysis in the second half of the anime.
