So what should I expect? Specifically the show and not the movie.
A lifetime of virginity
A garbage clusterfuck of story and characterization that isn't very well done by any aspect, but which attempts to compensate for its weaknesses by adding in waifu faggotry and NEUROSIS. The normal anon can see this as the shit it is, and may enjoy it, hate it or be indifferent to it, but all the while recognizing that the series itself, regardless of their opinion, is plain bad.
However, these very aspects that try to smear over the shit of its core make it a breeding ground for aspie, unsociable underageb& faggots who engage in every kind of faggotry both online and in the real world. The broken, angsty characters all trying their hardest to hide from their mental issues, the SYMBOLISM, peculiar, complex machinery, the whole Freudian faggotry and everything about the Evangelion world fuels their fantasies of being a patrician, while the pity-party character backgrounds, emphasis on guilt tripping, and overall preachiness of the series make it fit just right with the mary-sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self-importance towards the world. Exactly the kind of shit that makes little kiddies and underage retards eat this shit right the fuck up.
tl;dr; If you're impressed by YA novels(Hunger Games, Divergent, Horns, etc) or even garbage like Donnie Darko then you'll probably love it.
broken people
Slice of life shit about depression and trauma, a bunch of sci-fi techno babble and an occasional cool scene, up until the last couple episodes where the story goes completely off the rails and it gets interesting.
Mostly boring but worth it to get to the End of Evangelion movie which is legitimately great.
>>62871388
skip the last two eps they had no budget and it shows. just watch EoE in place of them since those two eps happen within shinjis conscious after instrumentality.
>>62871262
Story has been remade too many times, endings always different.
Creators have an idea, but no solid story. I don't think they have a solid idea at all.
>>62871300
>tl;dr; If you're impressed by YA novels(Hunger Games, Divergent, Horns, etc) or even garbage like Donnie Darko then you'll probably love it.
Please, I actually like Donnie Darko. Why the fuck did you feel the need to add that to the pasta anway?
>>62871292
I've accepted my fate.
>>62871300
Nice dubs, Shitty Pasta
>>62871306
I've noticed. It's not as overdone as I thought it would be.
>>62871465
I'll watch them anyway so I can compare them. I'd like to see why they were so controversial.
>>62871496
I guess I'll just hop along for the visual ride people say it is.
>>62871262
The movie is god tier.
Skip the show. Don't really need it save for character development and attachment,and since everyone's gonna die anyways...
Show basically is Voltron robo-beast-of-the-week fest, with some vague portents and sexual tension plugged in.
journey of self worth within a mecha show with religious undertones and rei being best girl
>>62871669
>I'll watch them anyway
Watch them after EoE. It glosses over crucial events from the movie and acts best as a retrospective look on the entirety of the series.
Rebuild 1 & 2 are good, with 2 having a great ending and after credit scene. Then in 3 it goes to shit, ignores the built up hype and throws everything out the window.
Also expect a very expositional series. They really spoonfeed you most of the stuff you need to know, and the rest can be inferred without much thought needed. There's a lot of interesting concepts, ideas, and situations in the series that I enjoyed but don't expect to be able to have the joy of discovering them for yourself.
End of Evangelion with the english VO's commentary track is just comedy gold.
>Handful of baby batter!
>That's just good schinima!
...and there's always the Michael Bay version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FckkZihQUaU
Bretty gud until the last 2 episodes and then disappointment sets in.
>>62871300
You need to understand that the more intelligent a film is the harder it is to explain. You can discuss many western films with ease because they're so much simpler and 2 dimensional than much of what Japan makes.
End of Evangelion is Hideaki Anno's multifaceted social commentary and deconstruction of the mecha genre, as well as a protean character study exploring the duality of man and the master/slave dialectic. Only the highly educated can realize the multiple layers of complexity, and actually be able to understand and appreciate such a highly intelligent masterpiece. Much unlike western media:
Vertigo is simpler than most slice of life anime. If this is you sceptic's idea of an intelligent film I laugh at you with pity.
Rosebud XDD is nothing compared to any of anno's stuff.
Kubric made ending of 2001 a space odyssey incoherent and it just didn't make sense without reading the book. Everything other was style over substance. Like anything from Kubrick.
Things on the scale of evangelion require a class to be explained, not some random bloke on the internet with limited time. If you fail to see this I don't know how to make it any simpler anymore. The japanese are truly amazing,man. I mean look at their amazing history and culture.They have the best literature in the history of the world. So why are people surprised that they made the best movie ever?
>>62872797
The last two episodes are great. A little sententious, maybe, but I enjoyed them enough to watch them at least 50 times each. I would love for Anno to revisit those last two episodes with a proper budget, but I guess the time for that is long past.
Off-topic, anyone know how I can get my neighbor to turn his fucking music down? It literally drives me crazy.
>>62872995
>/a/
Anno is a good case study for a mentally broken man putting all down in his work. Evangelion is a fucking mess that was basically ejaculated from the cock of a man suffering a severe nervous breakdown, it's visually amazing though. Anno's animation, when within budget is among the best out there. Expect a near indecipherable hodge podge of religious symbology liberally sprinkled with Japanese wackiness. Don't let any weebs tell you any different, The End Of Evangelion is a work of pure hatred, a giant "fuck you" to anime fans by a bitter man who was shat on too many times in life. Great works, though, 5/5 if you don't give a shit about plot and just want to watch insanity put on paper.
>watching End of Eva with someone
>friend throws up his hands and leaves during the last twenty minutes
I don't understand, that's the best part in the whole series.
An anime that influenced pretty much everything following it.
>>62873158
I'd just start fucking screaming bloody murder, you might damage your throat but god damn if he isn't interested enough to turn down his music to find out what that screaming is all about.
On-topic, expect the show to start off slow, it drops lots of little hints about the story's bigger picture in the beginning but it doesn't get heavy until maybe halfway through the series. It's not to say the beginning is weak, but it just seems like a typical shonen episodic monster of the week type of show until you get into the meat of it. Don't get discouraged, OP because it's worth it in my opinion.
People who analyze Evangelion like they would any other shonen (realistic plot etc) are on the wrong trail from the beginning. You have to review and understand it as an European arthouse film and not like a shonen anime. Eva just tried to create an anime with the non-narrative nature of european art cinema. It's possibly more useful to be educated in film theory than being an anime connoisseur if you're going to watch it. While most people nail him with Sigmund Freud, there is also a notable portion of Lacan in his work; he wants to pull the anime audience in front of the mirror, make anime aware of itself, deconstruct it like any other art form. Evangelion was an attempt to ennoble anime as a legitimate form of art.
A Space Odyssey is a simple comparison, but on a deeper level it's really more comparable to Bergman's Persona in mood and structure. I immediately understood Evangelion after watching Persona, it just fell into place for me like a missing puzzle piece.
I think the most tragic aspect of Evangelion is the fact that Anno wanted to create high-profile arthouse anime and totally crush the genre and otaku-ism in particular, yet ironically the next generation totally abused his innovations for the exact opposite. When Evangelion was a deconstruction of mecha anime, its stereotypes regarding plot and character, post-EVA producers used them to generate new clichées and generating a completely new otaku-dom, 1000 times more intense than the one before. This way, Anno is partly responsible for the current state of anime, filled with moe and mediocre shonen series. It's pretty notable that the Superflat movement was inspired by and ultimately necessary because of Evangelion.
>>62871262
the show gets naruto-tier, in its dialogue and the plot is extremely formulaix>holy shit its a bad situation
>i know i'll think of a solution to fix said problem
>doesn't go as planned
>this music kicks inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05gPSrsE-c
>they narrowly beat the angel with no one hurt and a crater the size of the moon on the ground
the show is extremely bad at introspection, the only character that isn't one dimensional is misato, and she's annoying until she has to do anything of literal importance
the main character is sad-naruto all the time, he stutters like a retard and he has the same fucking problems as naruto, no one accepts him, he feels different and alienated, his father doesn't like him, seriously this is the main character.
the show is a testament to how shit and contrived anime is and i hope no one wastes their time with the series
by the way >>>/a/
>>62874455
>55
>dubs
>>62873777
>777
>trips
I guess Eva is good after all
>>62874522
the show is extremely mediocre but when its bad, its extremely bad, just see the show for yourself and see.
>>62871262
Truth be told, its pretty good. people on here and /a/ treat it like its the anime version of Jesus, but really its a somewhat interesting and entertaining show. people bitch about its ending, but i thought it did nothing wrong
Asuka best girl.
I've started and really enjoy the show. It's anime so its not going to be anything incredibly deep and thought provoking. It's just good fun
What to expect: A pretentious neo-Freudian experience with unnecessary amounts of meaningless symbolism and religious imagery, with an ending that can essentially be summarized as "just be yourself shinji-kin".
Rating:
1.5/5
Nice visuals, but it was purposeless garbage that didn't cause me to think at all.
>>62874660
she's terrible and annoying, have you ever seen the show.
the show is also 4/10, only redeemed by the movie
>>62874661
That being said, if you want to watch an anime that actually has a meaning to it without the pretentious nonsense in Evangelion, I would recommend Texhnolyze, Boogiepop Phantom, and Perfect Blue.
Watch Gurren Lagann instead, it will actually be uplifting and motivating
its a good show. The monsters add variety, the characters are memorable, theres plenty to enjoy about it.
>>62873777
The manga is the patrician version
Great show with a lackluster conclusion that's redeemed by End of Evangelion.
Examples of Patrician anime:
Ashita no Joe
Akage no Anne
Galaxy Express 999
Ping Pong the Animation
Aria the Animation
Perfect Blue
Angels Egg
Samurai Flamenco
Gintama
Examples of reddit anime:
Evangelion and anything related
Madoka
Naruto
HunterxHunter
Hajime no Ippo
>>62874928
Sorry /a/ reject, but no cartoon is patrician as even the so-called "great" series do not so much as graze the aesthetic and philosophical heights of cinema and literature. It's a trash genre made for East Asian teenagers and white manchildren with short attention spans, don't waste your time anyone still wondering.
>>62874953
I get 25 cents for every post I make about Donald Trump
>>62874953
Pretentious as fuck.
>>62874953
>no cartoon is patrician
ed edd n eddy? looney toons? Jackie Chan Adventures? low quality bait
>>62874953
you're right, but no one here will recognize that
>>62875019
not one of those cartoons are patrician
>>62874985
how the fug do i get in on this game? or even star shit shilling
>>62872797
mfw I unironically agree with excerpts from this.
>>62874661
>pretentious
There's that word again!
>meaningless symbolism and religious imagery
Why is it meaningless? Who gets to decide the meaning?
>essentially be summarized
Lots of descriptions of art sound stupid if you "essentially summarize" them, moron.
The show has great music, excellent shot composition, compelling characters that grow and change over time, and interesting themes that reflect on the medium, genre, viewership, and post-war Japan as a whole.
>>62875550
>The show has great music
nigger every time something hadgone wrong with the plan this played
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGvEhNVPQ8&list=PL863F0F8611DAFB71
Smile have you developed any taste beyond entry level neo-cinephile yet?
>>62875782
And I enjoyed it everytime.
>>62875838
nigger it was formulaic as fuck and repetitive, why can't you admit that
>>62875806
smile smile smile
I know you're here :^))
>>62875876
I'm not the anon from before but I honestly enjoy all the music from Eva. I have like 10 different albums of it that I've listened to many times.
>>62875550
>compelling characters that grow and change over time
This I'd take issue with. Misato is the only one who is both sufficiently complex and has decent screen time. Most of the other characters aren't even deeper then a considerable amount of anime, they just act in iconically peculiar ways.
>>62875969
Rei is pretty complex and has actual development. I would argue that Asuka's regression is pretty interesting, too.
>>62874773
>Gurren Lagann
>>>/v/
garbage for "deep" teens like picture related
>>62874928
is that gintama movie a joke m8
Remember that retarded scene where it shows a full Japanese theater and then fades into an empty one?
>tfw the first time I watched Eva was 15 years ago on a VHS from the library
I just assumed everyone had seen it already at this point.
>>62876049
>Rei is pretty complex
She is incredibly idiosyncratic in ways that we can't be sure would match up with any kind of actual human behaviour. The show keeps hinting that there's more to her than meets the eye, but you don't get a coherent picture of what that might be. She is essentially a human animal.
>>62871262
>So what should I expect? Specifically the show and not the movie.
I have the perfect advice.
Expect it to be worth your time, but not amazing.
Do not, under any conditions, engage the fan base. Anyone who gets butt devastated by my post is one of them, just keep scrolling.
>>62873421
Had he seen the series before or did you just throw him headfirst into the EoE shitstorm?
>>62876348
I AM ABOUT TO BE BUTT DEVASTATED! YA'LL BETTER WATCH OUT!
>>62876304
what does she do that is inhuman behavior.
The show is seriously depressing and I will never watch it again.
Every character has a serious mental disorder.
>>62876526
Is Misato's disorder being a top tier waifu?
>>62872797
This is accurate.
>>62874928
>forgetting legend of the galactic heroes
>>62876585
misato best girl
kaji is my self insert :^) so as far as i'm concerned she is loyal as fuck
>>62876659
>mfw it has the best OP ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUf-8aXt9Hw
>>62871262
The show is old, so expect to be underwhelmed by the presentation.
Evangelion is superior storytelling, but Anno takes a little bit to get there (and the series ending doesn't really make sense without EoE to spackle in the gaps, even though they're arguably different endings).
Episode 19 is absolutely phenomenal. And the episodes following it come close to matching it.
>>62876585
depressed alcoholic mess with daddy issues kaji reminds her of her father. she puts on a strong leader/easy going front but shes broken she realizes how obvious it is when she invites shinji to live with her and becomes self aware of how obvious her facade is.
>>62876348
>Expect it to be worth your time, but not amazing.
>Do not, under any conditions, engage the fan base.
This is absolutely the best advice one could give in this thread. I applaud you.
BEST
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>>62876789
Exactly my type of lady, as broken as I am.
>>62876723
>even though they're arguably different endings
I would definitely argue this. The Eva fanbase at large has put so much stock into the idea each ending is "a different side of the same thing" that they can no longer see anything else or conceive of either differently, without reference to the other. It is (not) surprising how little this actually makes sense.
>>62876885
>>62877014Were you in the Eva generals a few years ago when 3.33 came out in Japan?
>>62876720
>Lay your heart down unto the sea of the stars
Brings a tear to my heart m8
>>62876659
How could I have forgotten? It belongs on my reddit list.
>>62875550
>why is it meaningless
Hack Anno literally admitted he threw in crosses for no fucking reason
>>>/trash/
>>62877028
>tfw I'll never rule a sea of stars like Reinhard-sama
It literally hurts.
>>62874928
I have started to watch HunterxHunter and was told it gets rly good. I am a few episodes in and so far its typical shounen shit. What is your opinion on it?
>>62877047
>Dumbass who thinks crosses were the only form of symbolism in Eva
>>62877025
i think so, that was around december 21 2012 right?
moot had that tumbling down song playing all day?
>>62877071
>listening to a memers opinion
Gotta make your taste to pay the troll toll.
>>62877090
In that area, moot usually got drunk and fucked up /a/ around the holidays.Shame he stopped watching anime essentially, just the kuck life for him now in retirement
>>62874773
Ive actually already seen it like 4 times through. It's fucking amazing.ROW ROW
>>62876060
Fuck you buddy. Gurren is the shit. Stop being a wannabe patrician.
>>62877126
He grew up.
>>62877300
Fun is outlawed when you become an adult?
>>62877328
Bad taste is
>>62877359
Then why do you have a tripcode on?
Besides you can watch anime at any age. It's just that above a certain age you can't tell anybody that you do. Except for some anons on the Internet.
>>62877071
Not that guy, but HxH is absolutely by the book shounen in almost all the worst ways. The people claiming it isn't are so immersed in it they care, but not having the show unanimously support your charter's viewpoints and allowing them to fuck up doesn’t change what the series fundamentally is, which is one of the very worst cases of "yes, lets stand around for episodes on end doing barely anything but explaining exactly why our particular tactic wins, for the most convoluted of reasons". This is the bulk of the show, and no, most of it isn't intellectually higher than Yu-Gi-Oh or DBZ due to consisting mainly of bullshit asspulls instead of actually well thought out resolutions.
If you have to watch it, watch the '90s adaptation instead though, it is far better directed.
>>62877359
I wanna live with misato in her comfy apartment
Is the ending really as crazy as people say it is?
>>62877328
Why are you responding to a tripfag?
Bad.
Very bad. Shame on you.
>>62877562
its different it takes place in shinjis conscious during the third impact as he does soul searching to make the decision to continue on with instrumentality or to go back to individuality.
Is the dub better?
>>62877634
The way people say this makes it sound like it was planned when really they just ran out of money.
>>62877625
because this isn't /b/ you fucking star shit tourist
>>62877648
I found it weird because a lot of the characters have these strange southern US accents. Like Shinji and Asuka sound kind of like hicks to me.
>>62877652
Then how did they fund the End of Evan movie? Just asking, I actually don't know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOGzpMo0_o
>>62877652
Agreed, like I was saying earlier. There is no evidence that 25&26 were planned to be an examination of 3rd impact, that's pretty much a fanwank post justification.
a r9k anime
>>62877687
I think it's because after airing, Eva was a big hit so they got given more money to make the movie.
>>62877699
It says so outright in one or both of the episodes.
>>62877652
That's just disproven hearsay.
>>62877720
Oh ok, thanks. So are the rebuild movies kind of like Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood? Like pretty much a reboot?
>>62877699
the entire show is a flashback during the third impact.
>>62877750
First movie's essentially exactly the same as the first six episodes of the anime. Second movie starts to deviate from the original, third was a boring clusterfuck with a lot of random shit for the most part and as far as I'm aware there's no news on the fourth. It's been three years since the last one was out.
Iirc they also made them redo the dub of the third movie too so that's not due out until next year. I like to imagine it's because the English guys tried to make it somewhat sensible.
>>62877739
>It says so outright in one or both of the episodes.
3rd impact is definitely mentioned in the episodes, but I don't see how that confirms that the episodes specifically take place in the middle of EoE and are supposed to show specifically what Shinji went through at the point, as opposed to being essentially a recap of his mental issues overall and how he tries to deal with them in general.
>>62877803
>the entire show is a flashback
What are you claiming here?
>>62877808
Will the 4th film be the final one? I wonder if they'll change the ending again.
>>62877835
Yeah 4th is the last one. The ending will have to be completely different now because of how the 3rd one turned out. There's a big time skip and the future's even more fucked than 2015 was.
>>62876928
I don't know why anyone even thinks about episodes 25 and 26 when EoE is obviously better directed.
>>62877817
>essentially a recap of his mental issues overall and how he tries to deal with them in general
Yeah, that's exactly what the last episodes are.
When Third Impact is starting and the episode numbers are flashing across the screen, episodes 25 and 26 show up. That could imply they somehow co-exist.
>>62877830
Hes looking back on his experiences interactions and relationships trying to understand them and comes to the conclusion >>62871763 even though humans hurt each other, sometimes they choose not to. thats what makes human interaction worthwhile.
We can all agree to a point that EoE is largely a 'fuck you' to the otaku culture of the 1990s that Anno derided so much right?
>>62877941
Anno sounds autistic tbqh
>>62877941
Also here's a reminder that Asuka was given far more prevalence in the series than she needed because Anno had a crush on her VA.
>>62877975
He's an anime director, what did you honestly expect? I'm surprised he even got married considering has nascent homosexual attraction to the creator of Utena who he calls 'Iku-chan'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ngsZ4pvyww
>>62871300
>he thinks Evangelion is original
>>62871262
you should expect this >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfACFMswVBE
>>62871262
Show (This is an OK series until a WTF end)
Death & Rebirth(This is a recompilation of the series without the end. )
The End(This is a improved but also WTF ending)
The Revival (Its a recompilation of the 2 movies in one its supposed to be GOOD)
The rebuild 1 (recompilation supposed to be OK)
The rebuild 2 (recompilation supposed to be GREAT)
The rebuild 3 (recompilation supposed to be BAD)
In definitive watch the movies, the original series goes to nowhere...
>>62877663
>trips
>acceptable anywhere
>>>/r/4chan
>>62871300
>tl;dr
Hey there /r/movies, upvoted!
>>62872979
so much this
>>62871262
EoTV > EoE
Evangelion is one of those popular things that gets hate because autistic people on the internet hate things being popular for some reason.
Like Undertale. A generally very well received game that's a lot of fun and has a cute story. A month later it's the worst thing ever made in history.
Star Wars: Now people will bitch and moan and call the original trilogy "shit" for a bunch of dumbass reasons; none of them actually anything to do with George Lucas.
Give it... three more weeks and people will say Fallout 4 is perhaps the worst video game of ALL TIME.
Just ignore autistic shitposters. Evangelion was bad because it's anime and I'm an edgelord like Shinji but I can't admit it so I say it's traaaash!
>>62880811
No, its shit because the ending is not planned and absurd.
>>62880811
>Hur, I'm going to pretend that Eva hasn't always been the most controversial anime producing the most diverse range of opinions for varying reasons and act like the insular fanbase should have the only say
Never listen to ANYONE that tells you to skip the last two episodes of the original series.
Watch the entire original series, then absolutely watch End of Evangelion.
After that it's up to you to watch the rebuild movies. They start out as a 1:1 hd remake of the original series and then diverges into it's own thing by the end of the second movie. It's not really essential, it's only if you want more.
>>62872797
the messages are interesting but imo anime always conveys them in cringeworthy ways, why is that?
>>62881322
storytelling through tv is hard. Especially tv that has to aim at a generally younger or adolescent audience. Also how much anime have you seen? A range of movies, OVAs and tv series' would be good for a solid understanding of how this stuff works.
as a kid i watched pokemon dragonball digimon yugioh detective conan
i watched death note, samurai champloo, neon genesis evangelion
watched ghost in the shell, akira
and to all of them the above mentioned applies. i hated akira
>>62881391
i always enjoy the storytelling in sopranos/breaking bad/the wire over any anime
>>62880811
>Star Wars: Now people will bitch and moan and call the original trilogy "shit" for a bunch of dumbass reasons; none of them actually anything to do with George Lucas.
If there's anything the prequels taught us, it's that the trilogy was good due to its lack of faith in George Lucas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI
(Also, read the original screenplay - and cry.)
Oddly, Anno made End of EVA specifically to tell the fans of the original show to fuck off - and it was the most brilliant thing he ever did.
People could learn from this.
>>62877071
The 99 version is better up until the Greed Island arc.
Watch that, the synth music and the color palette really adds atmosphere
I really hope you're downloading the newly released blu-ray and not some ancient 480p rips, anons.
>>62871262
There is a good reason why people consider it so good. I see it in a similar manner to the works of Borges and Pynchon. Their works had a bit of high culture and pop culture in them, which made them both impressive and ambitious, but also easy to enjoy and entertaining (Pynchon less so, but Borges definitely). Evangelion is kind of like that too. It has the heavy psychological drama, lots of the exposition is visual and often contradicts what is presented through dialogue and the setting is rather surreal. But on the other hand it has some comedy, lots of good action sequences and fairly archetypical characters that are full of life. Just think about what would happen if it didn't have those last elements I spoke about. It wouldn't probably a rather obscure title with the same popularity as something like Texhnolyze. But because of them it's also easy to enjoy for even a "casual" watcher.
Basically it's as if someone made a film that had both the qualities of a Kubrick and a Spielberg movie at once.
Also, realize that this came out at a time before the internet was so widespread and information was easily available. To follow the plot correctly you need to rewatch it. Evangelion has shit ton of forshafowing and is painfully but well constructed. I think nowadays most people watch and since most aren't accustomed to visual and achronological exposition they are confused. Then they type in "eva analysis" in google and ruin all the fun, some people might brush it off and in realization that they didn't get most of it think it's just some dumb interpretation and in anger call the show pretentious. But before after finishing the show, people would catch it on re-runs and see these elements coming earlier on in the show that you only really understand after having watched the whole thing. Nowadays you'll probably watch it off some website or donwload it and immediately watch something new. But in this case it's better to spend some time with it.
>>62883856
Ah, so it's redditshit?
>>62876659
You beat me to it. LOTGH god tier television. Maybe even GOAT.
It's so sad that it hasn't been picked up on a major level.
>>62883864
Can't you write like a normal person? People have practiced coherent communication via writing for thousands of years. You just took a dump on that fundament of human culture and it took you 3 seconds. I hope you're proud of yourself.
>>62884002
redditor detected let's get him bros
Tried watching it but hated everything about it, mainly because I'm not into anime anymore
For me it's all the same retarded chink waifu degenerate shit
>>62883997
LotGH had practically no sense of visual direction. Terrible exposition, you could basically just read the subtitles and know about everything that's going on. The setting is totally unimaginative and the story really un subtle.
>>62877712
This absolute most accurate summary of Hideki Anno as a person and an artist that I've ever seen.
>>62871763
The show is important because its contrast to the movie though. Without the show the movie is just some artsy bullshit trying too hard. You need that "Normal generic robot anime" for a while in order to actually feel something from the change.
>>62877975
He probably is desu
