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It really is one of the best things I've ever watched in my life, up there with The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, and Serial Experiments: Lain.
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Voros I've been finding myself liking the Rebuild movies more. Partly because I know they will get finished the way he wants them to, and partially because I enjoy watching the people who wanted it to just be the same thing again mald.
Also, my son has told me that the train arc is where the manga actually starts getting really good in Demon Slayer. Looking forward to seeing the movie.
No. You're not the only one. Unlike you, I do consider it absolutely awful.I often feel like I'm one of the only weebs who doesn't consider Evangelion a top tier anime.
I found it a bit meh as well, although I understand that the rips on mecha anime might have made a bit more sense if I'd seen more of that genre. In fact, Evangelion is the only mecha title I've ever watched, and it was meant to be a deconstruction of the genre.I often feel like I'm one of the only weebs who doesn't consider Evangelion a top tier anime. I like it more now than I did when I first watched it, but I still look at it and try to see what it is other people see in it and just... don't see it.
I think it is interesting, and I've watched it multiple times, which you know, clearly I don't think it is bad. But every time I come away with "Man what could have been if he hadn't ran out of budget/time", rather than coming away thinking it was amazing.
The way it deconstructs the super robot genre is actually the parts about it that make me like it more than I did when I first watched it as a teen. It really does do a good setup of knocking down a lot of the tropes by playing them to their more realistic conclusion (what would a reclusive genius dad who ignored his family to make giant robots ACTUALLY be like), but the rest of it... yeah. I don't think it is really as deep as people think it is.I found it a bit meh as well, although I understand that the rips on mecha anime might have made a bit more sense if I'd seen more of that genre. In fact, Evangelion is the only mecha title I've ever watched, and it was meant to be a deconstruction of the genre.
The thing is, we got to see how Hideaki Anno would end Evangelion with more time and a bigger budget - and he told the exact same story, from a different PoV. So I don't think the ending of the series was comprimised, as far as conveying exactly what the author intended.
As to what anyone gets out of it, well that's up to the individual viewer.
I read spoilers of 4.0, the latest Evangelion movie. I don't think the latter's ending is exactly like EoE, considering the fact that:
I'm not talking about the reboot, I'm talking about the original End of Evangelion film.
This looks so cool, hope we see a translation sometime.
Just got turned on to Ane-naru-mono, a new ongoing manga (4 volumes released so far, a fifth on in a few months) translated in the West as "The Elder Sister-Like One"
It's about a young boy, Yuu, orphaned when his parents are killed in an accident, and shuffled between extended family members suffering neglect and abuse and becoming more and more inverted, until he ends up with one uncle who basically lets him live in his house as long as he never enters his workshed, where the uncle spends all of his time. The two never see each other, and Yuu, now 13, basically takes care of himself and lives a life of quiet solitude, until his uncle ends up in the hospital.
Yuu finally enters the workshed, looking for some medical information the hospital requested, and finds that it's an occult laboratory, Lovecraftian in nature, and his uncle was secretly a cultist/magician of some sort. It's here that Yuu accidentally summons an avatar or Shub-Nigguruth, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young, and, amused by the perplexed child who obviously has no idea what she is or what he did, offers to grant him a wish in exchange for...something (it's deliberately ambiguous, maybe his soul, maybe something else, but there's a lot of foreshadowing of great tragedy in the future).
And Yuu makes a wish for basically the only thing he's ever wanted since losing his parents - for a family member that cares for him. Essentially asking Shub-Nigguruth to be his "oni-chan" ("Elder Sister").
Of course, this being manga, Shub Nigguruth takes on the form of an incredibly hot, busty anime babe. I mean, I'm not complaining.
It's uh...I mean, it's not Hentai, but it is kinda trashy, but it's the kinda trash that pushes some of my buttons in between "Manic Pixie Girl" tropes and "Lovecraftian horror playing at being human", and does manage to be beautiful, touching, and even tearjerking from time to time.
You watched a fan dub of Ranma 1/2???
But the original dub is so awesome - it uses the voice actors from the Peanuts cartoon specials!
Inuyasha has this weird distinction in my social circles that people who otherwise hate anime love it.So, I just binged season 1 of Inuyasha on Netflix and decided to look it up on the interwebs. And I discover that it's based on a manga written by Rumiko Takahashi, who also did Ranma-1/2, the first anime I ever watched - in a fan sub on VHS back in the middle of the 1990s. Netflix only has season 1, but Wikipedia indicates there are about 200 episodes. The character designs are all trad manga - big eyes and pointy chins.
Inuyasha has this weird distinction in my social circles that people who otherwise hate anime love it.
We have this in our to-watch list.Netflix has released Takashi Shimizu's (The Grudge) live action adaptation of Hideo Yamamoto's (Ichi the Killer) manga Homunculus.
I've lost track what "complete" Evangelion means. One day I'll have to assemble my preferred version.Put in my pre-order for the complete Evangelion on Blu-Ray by Shout Factory
I've lost track what "complete" Evangelion means. One day I'll have to assemble my preferred version.
I mean the original series & End of Evangelion. I haven't really concerned myself with Rebuild