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Anyone here ever watch Evangellion?

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Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#1 - 2012-12-16 01:51:30 UTC
An old anime series from the 1990's, probably my favourite. Recently the series has been rebooted using the original plot and it is bloody awesome.

And then I found the teaser for the third film here.

ALL OF MY MONEY Shocked

What's interesting is that this comes on the heels of a chap called Scifi Debris reviewing both of the Evangelion films so far. I know that anime, and Eva in particular isn't for everyone, but thought it was worth a shout out as I squeed like a fanboy when I saw the teaser.

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Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-12-16 02:44:24 UTC
Nifty. I liked the original mostly for the weird ass ending :)
Baby ChuChu
Ice Cream Asylum
#3 - 2012-12-16 04:09:45 UTC
Evangelion is probably the only anime I haven't seen yet. I just can't bring myself to watch it for some odd reason...
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#4 - 2012-12-16 07:50:17 UTC
It's a pretty entertaining show, and a classic. I can understand people not wanting to watch it though, it got bleak pretty fast.

End Of Evangelion was even worse due to all the imagery and utterly depressing themes in it.

Still worth a watch though.

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Daimon Kaiera
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-12-16 11:03:01 UTC
Baby ChuChu wrote:
Evangelion is probably the only anime I haven't seen yet. I just can't bring myself to watch it for some odd reason...


Oddly enough, it was the first, because I don't count DBZ nor Pokemon, that I ever saw.

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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-12-16 11:05:38 UTC
Baby ChuChu wrote:
Evangelion is probably the only anime I haven't seen yet. I just can't bring myself to watch it for some odd reason...

first series is action, and pretty much a totally ****** up and extremely depressing and dark ending, if you see the End of Evangelion episodes, which are, pretty much a second ending. First ending is... pretty much Freud playing with birds in your brain.

Evangelion Rebirth (think that's the name given to the 4-movie series reboot), is still ****** up, but much less depressing, until now that is.

the main character at the very least has grown a backbone, compared to the first series where it was totally inexistant.

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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-12-16 11:09:26 UTC
I had the original on VHS, back in those days.

But the ending really made me feel stupid, I still don't get it.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2012-12-16 11:14:05 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
I had the original on VHS, back in those days.

But the ending really made me feel stupid, I still don't get it.

the guy who made the series was fresh out of rehab when it was writing the script. also he had a very bad case of depression, and apparently he likes mind-****.


due to the success of Eva tho, he's now millionaire, is married and has 3 kids and life seems better for him.

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Kanta Kansene
Agentes in rebus
#9 - 2012-12-16 11:45:40 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
An old anime series from the 1990's, probably my favourite. Recently the series has been rebooted using the original plot and it is bloody awesome.

And then I found the teaser for the third film here.

ALL OF MY MONEY Shocked

What's interesting is that this comes on the heels of a chap called Scifi Debris reviewing both of the Evangelion films so far. I know that anime, and Eva in particular isn't for everyone, but thought it was worth a shout out as I squeed like a fanboy when I saw the teaser.



Old? By extension, I guess that makes me old...

I liked the way the plot unfolded in the original series, and I really liked what they did with the EoE movie. I caught some online streaming of YANA and YCNA, I liked them as well, and the changes to certain characters makes them easier to like
Reiisha
#10 - 2012-12-16 13:45:18 UTC
All anime roads lead to Evangelion at some point, for better or for worse.

Personally, i already didn't really like it as much because i started watching it right after finishing Slayers/Next/Try, soi had some perspective on what a decent anime looked like :P

Originally Evangelion was meant to follow the lines of the first few episodes of the original series, but the writer thought he could be super-pretentious and really mucked the rest of it up, with dark, depressing and simply nonsensical storylines as a result. It's the reason he keeps trying to redo the ending, he wrote himself into a corner he couldn't get out of.

If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all...
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-12-16 17:41:25 UTC
Reiisha wrote:
All anime roads lead to Evangelion at some point, for better or for worse.

Personally, i already didn't really like it as much because i started watching it right after finishing Slayers/Next/Try, soi had some perspective on what a decent anime looked like :P

Originally Evangelion was meant to follow the lines of the first few episodes of the original series, but the writer thought he could be super-pretentious and really mucked the rest of it up, with dark, depressing and simply nonsensical storylines as a result. It's the reason he keeps trying to redo the ending, he wrote himself into a corner he couldn't get out of.

as I said, he was fresh out of rehab and under a depression when he started writing it all. tbh I look at NGE as the final product of a medicated maniac-depressive and his daily visits to a shrink.

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-12-16 18:32:38 UTC
Sidus Isaacs wrote:
Nifty. I liked the original mostly for the weird ass ending :)


it was an ending ??
Nissui
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-12-16 20:04:13 UTC
Sidus Isaacs wrote:
Nifty. I liked the original mostly for the weird ass ending :)

Same here, I preferred the original series with the original ending. I haven't watched any of the rehash stuff.
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#14 - 2012-12-17 00:39:46 UTC
Nissui wrote:
Sidus Isaacs wrote:
Nifty. I liked the original mostly for the weird ass ending :)

Same here, I preferred the original series with the original ending. I haven't watched any of the rehash stuff.

I reccomend it, its hard to tell if its a reboot or a sequel sometimes, theres evidence it could be either or something else entirely.

Having read about the writers depression, the Congratulations at the end of the original series can be taken to mean he himself got past his demons as opposed to the characters. I always prefered to see it this way, as at least one persons life was made better by the... loosely defined ending.

And Eva's not that old, its from 1995, so just 17 years old. Look how old Star Wars is. Pirate

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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2012-12-17 23:27:12 UTC
Nissui wrote:
Sidus Isaacs wrote:
Nifty. I liked the original mostly for the weird ass ending :)

Same here, I preferred the original series with the original ending. I haven't watched any of the rehash stuff.

new rehash movies are only "somewhat" alike in the first. second has some very tiny similarities and quite some more action. third, I can't wait for it, considering it's totally a departure from the original story line.

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#16 - 2012-12-18 02:11:51 UTC
im gonna have to get them and watch them at some point

but id probably need to rewatch the originals first.

i refuse to believe shinji has a spine .......
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2012-12-18 06:39:15 UTC
Kitty Bear wrote:
im gonna have to get them and watch them at some point

but id probably need to rewatch the originals first.

i refuse to believe shinji has a spine .......

he grows one by the end of the second movie, but yes. he indeed grows one.

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Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#18 - 2012-12-18 18:39:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Kirjava
Kitty Bear wrote:

i refuse to believe shinji has a spine .......


Oh you are not going to believe it when he grows watermelon sized balls of depleted Uranium Bear

Also from the OST - The Wrath of God with all its Fury.

Can't wait to see what kind of badassery this oversees Shocked

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Jenavee De'amore
New LIfe corp
#19 - 2013-01-05 01:34:20 UTC
I think I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion back in the good old days on the SciFi (UK) channel along with animes like..... Dominion Tank Police, Tenchi Muyo, Martian Successor Nadesico etc. I was still at school at the time so it must've been years ago Shocked alot of nostalgic memories :)
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#20 - 2013-01-05 03:32:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6639
i'm in the middle of watching Gundam 00, and I love the Gundam series... but the animation and art style of evangelion turned me off. <--also fan of Bleach, Naruto, Samurai Champloo

//oh ****. that preview was sick