What else is there to say that hasn't been said about this show? It isn't just 26 episodes of animated drama...its an experience in its own right. There aren't many stories in the world that never leave your conscience ever, and this just happens to be one of those stories for me. It NEVER disappoints at any point in the show. I watched the whole thing in a span of 2 days (of course, I had to eat and sleep). I swear, while I was watching this thing, Carmen Electra could've called and asked me on a date that night and that night only and I'd still have to say that I was busy at the moment.
The beginning of the show starts off as an entertaining Mech with a conventional light-hearted feel typical of many shonen titles. But as the show continues, you get more and more clues to the characters as well as the conspiracies revolving around their missions. It eventually gets to a point after 14 episodes or so where things become really intense. The commanders begin to reveal themselves for who they really are, and the main characters are on the brink of insanity. Shinji especially, goes into an extreme state of depression, which is so amazingly depicted that you'd feel you where feeling the same things he was feeling.
Towards the end of the series, I began to get so drawn into one episode that I'd have to take a 15 minute break before watching the next episode because everything I was beginning to love about the NGE world was falling apart. No conventional Hollywood happy, everythings great, go home and eat dinner endings here. Nope. You have to end up questioning everything about your life and your existence in society. And it doesn't make your life seem terrible and meaningless like it leads you to believe most of the time. It gives me one tiny shred of truth that is bound to stay with me for a long time...that without pain there can be no joy. If a story can leave that much of an impact on you, then you know you didn't waste 13 hours of your life seeing it unfold.
To sum it all up for you...this is an incredible story. If you like to have your emotions screwed with until going into a borderline nihilistic void, then Evangelion is for you. Many comments on this series may seem very sensationalist at times, but trust me, we aren't lying.
The beginning of the show starts off as an entertaining Mech with a conventional light-hearted feel typical of many shonen titles. But as the show continues, you get more and more clues to the characters as well as the conspiracies revolving around their missions. It eventually gets to a point after 14 episodes or so where things become really intense. The commanders begin to reveal themselves for who they really are, and the main characters are on the brink of insanity. Shinji especially, goes into an extreme state of depression, which is so amazingly depicted that you'd feel you where feeling the same things he was feeling.
Towards the end of the series, I began to get so drawn into one episode that I'd have to take a 15 minute break before watching the next episode because everything I was beginning to love about the NGE world was falling apart. No conventional Hollywood happy, everythings great, go home and eat dinner endings here. Nope. You have to end up questioning everything about your life and your existence in society. And it doesn't make your life seem terrible and meaningless like it leads you to believe most of the time. It gives me one tiny shred of truth that is bound to stay with me for a long time...that without pain there can be no joy. If a story can leave that much of an impact on you, then you know you didn't waste 13 hours of your life seeing it unfold.
To sum it all up for you...this is an incredible story. If you like to have your emotions screwed with until going into a borderline nihilistic void, then Evangelion is for you. Many comments on this series may seem very sensationalist at times, but trust me, we aren't lying.