Neon Genesis Evangelion

dracula17 · Bakufu Joined: Dec 31, 2005 Posts: 2100

I like this manga. I like the twisted stuff. I like how it comes and goes between real things and fantasy. I like how they go into realigion and all of that stuff. What I don't like is the graphics are aviestly very old and the colors need to be retouched. But I do like the evangelions and the angels just the colors are a little hollow. I really like the manga too.

stokerino · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:10 am Post subject:

I have no problems with the colour. It may not be as super-bright as some of today's anime, but you have to remember that it is over 10 years old now. Besides, if it got much brighter than it already is then the colours would just be verging on surreal. To add to its existing surrealness, that is. >_>
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quosimos · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:33 am Post subject:

the music stuck out. love it. very dynamic. i couldnt imagine watching an EVA vs Angel scene without hearing that score blaring over the top.

When i first watched NGE i was pretty much new to anime so i watched it without any notion of anime conventions or anything. i treated it like any other show not even necessarily animated. What really struck me was the regular use of long takes, sometimes static, always without any non-diagetic music often without dialogue and with minimal action. Sequences like Shinji walking to school behind his friends or Rei and Asuka riding an elevator or Shinji on the train. Stuff like this never happened on normal television. Time was money. things had to be happening! there had to be movement and an immediacy! tension at the very least.

i also really liked the OP at the time although nowadays its one of the things i look back to and think 'wow my music tastes sure used to be different ^^'. the watery rendition of Fly Me to the Moon + slight Japanese accent should suck by all accounts but it actually works very well for me. it ends the show with a very nice touch.

stokerino · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

Actually one of the main things I love about NGE is how they adapted to their budget cuts in ways that actually *helped* the anime. That scene with Rei and Asuka in the lift is frikkin' genius, because by the time Rei finally speaks up, you're actually feeling personally uncomfortable just WATCHING it. Then, for example, in the 26th episode when the pencil crayons and Copic markers come out, it's when they're talking about perceptions of reality - how eveything we see is not real, just an image. That is pure class right there, and the sort of imagination I've still yet to see reproduced in any other anime since.
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legend718 · newbie! Joined: Dec 10, 2004 Posts: 34

Darksword · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

That's exactly why they say that NGE is the work of a genius. There's no other anime like it even today as far as I know
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Fossik · newbie! Joined: Nov 18, 2005 Posts: 15

I liked the series, it was actually one of the first that I watched. For a while I was really confused and frustrated with the last two episodes, but after watching it a couple more times and thinking about it, it made sense. I can totally understand how people could dislike it though, it seems to be one of those series that people just love or hate.

Bowser · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject:

I guess it wasnt much like because its way of thinking might have been a little ahead of its time.....

Just finished watching NGE:end of evangelion.....I never knew it would answer so many questions.....yet get you thinking about soooooo many more~lol

eA-Zaku · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Nov 12, 2005 Posts: 69

The manga came after the anime, right? I think I remember reading that in one of the books. It's also a lot darker...

stokerino · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:39 am Post subject:

The manga did indeed come after the anime, but I wouldn't call it a lot 'darker'. The only darker bit I can think of is that Touji actually dies...most of it is very similar if not identical.
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Darksword · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

Ive never read the manga so I don't have an opinion in there, but this is one of the series that first it was the anime and then was the manga huh? Weird, I haven't known many mangas that were made after the anime (usually is in reverse.)
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ethylenediamine · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:03 am Post subject:

stokerino · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:10 am Post subject:

Ohhhh I love the Director's Cut of episode 22. It's quite possibly the most worthwhile bit of all the director's cuts. Pretty damn extensive additions to the 'Mind Rape' scene, and all very, very, VERY fucked up. Awesomeness.

And those supposed 'purists' who think the last two episodes of the TV series are deathnote-worthy are just pathetic. You can prefer one ending or the other; but to judge the TV ending as being downright terrible and unworthy of existence is merely, in my opinion, an example of someone with a limited perspective that is unable to accept anything drawn from outside the box.
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goukenslayer · newbie! Joined: Mar 25, 2006 Posts: 2

i love this anime for its action

Kyadytim · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:53 am Post subject: