Nge Again, This Time An Opinion!(probably The Last Entry On It For A While Too)
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It will mess up your mind worse than that picture of Sting. And people reading this, please, don't go look up that picture of Sting. ~ Another forum I'm on.
"What is this show's plot even supposed to be leading up to anymore?" "I'm not really sure, but they're paying us, aren't they?" ~ A conversation probably had by the voiceactors, animators, editors, network execs, and everyone else involved in it's production near the final episodes, other than the writers.
It's a mech show the same way Twin Peaks was a cop show." ~ A wiki with forums.
If I wanted to do an analysis of people who are mentally screwed up, I'd go to a goth bar. But goth bars don't have mechs, so I'm watching this. ~ Another forum.
(Why do I keep putting things in spoilers relating to this show? Because I know somewhere someone will go on a tirade about how I spoiled the ending for them if I don't)
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As comedically negative as the quotes are, I actually enjoyed the series. It could get a bit messed up at times, and the ending was a bit anticlimactic, and for most of the series the cast wasn't that likable, but it managed to pull it all together and make an entertaining and fairly fulfilling, if not some strange and mildly disappointing due-to-all-the-hype, anime.
Plus it's only 26 episodes, so even if you don't enjoy it that much there's not a terrible amount to watch, and you'll finally understand what people mean when they talk about how everyone else's crazy theories about what the ending actually meant don't fit their crazy theory about what the ending actually meant and therefore can't be true, or how their theory actually is a part of another theory! I can't comment on End Of Evangelion though, as, from the recommendations of Wrack/Hime and Gato/Desu/whatever she's calling herself right now, I'm at the very least going to take some time to get detached from it since everyone seems to be saying it's a depressing kill-em-all alternate ending.
I will say this though; what is with the obsession and sexualization of Rei by so much of the fanbase? I suppose she was a cute character, and that one Rei sacrificing herself/itself to save Shinji was sweet or some other fitting word, but she's a synthetic, homegrown 14-year old, it's both creepy and pedophilic. What the heck?
Plus it's only 26 episodes, so even if you don't enjoy it that much there's not a terrible amount to watch, and you'll finally understand what people mean when they talk about how everyone else's crazy theories about what the ending actually meant don't fit their crazy theory about what the ending actually meant and therefore can't be true, or how their theory actually is a part of another theory! I can't comment on End Of Evangelion though, as, from the recommendations of Wrack/Hime and Gato/Desu/whatever she's calling herself right now, I'm at the very least going to take some time to get detached from it since everyone seems to be saying it's a depressing kill-em-all alternate ending.
I will say this though; what is with the obsession and sexualization of Rei by so much of the fanbase? I suppose she was a cute character, and that one Rei sacrificing herself/itself to save Shinji was sweet or some other fitting word, but she's a synthetic, homegrown 14-year old, it's both creepy and pedophilic. What the heck?
But, either way, I do recommend it. As usual, content warnings: Blood, language, cannibalism by nonhuman beings, mindscrewing, death, mechs, wangst, severely messed-up characters, a protagonist who's unlikable for a while, very strange symbolism, an ending you may hate, existentialism, philosophy, psychology, very weird plot points, an insanely cute penguin, and potential nostalgia.
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