Don't know what to make of it

Written by gauntnix on November 12, 2010 at 4:21 AM

This is a very complex anime. In a way it's very psychological and it has a lot of cool action sequences as well. It's intense and very symbollic at times. But just when you think something really cool is going to happen to change the world, it stops making sense and it drifts off into something else entirely. It starts to take you inside the characters' heads and kind of forgets about the Angels they were fighting and about trying to save the world and all that. Or maybe I missed the conclusion. In any case I felt no closure whatsoever. Either way it's stopped making sense after episode 22. You also expect Shinji to either make peace with his dad or have some kind of significant confrontation, but he only talks to him inside his own head. It's a shame because you really expect it to leave an impression on you because of the intensity of it. But it has a weird and nonsensical happy ending where nothing is really resolved. It just ends with a superficial smile.