NGE

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Rah-Xephon is Evangelion on serious hallucogens.

[XxSephirothxX]

Eva truly was a masterpiece. I started watching it, an episode a day on average. Then two. Then three. Pretty soon I was scrambling to watch it as much as I could. The show is deeper than anything else I've seen (currently 9 episodes into RahXephon, hoping it matches up), and has some truly incredible messages. You can interpret it in many different ways, and can take the religious aspect as a good or bad thing...or maybe just a thing that happened. One bad note is the sheer amount of angst in the show. True, it adds a lot--but at times it can almost be depressing. I have a friend who worships Eva, but said he felt physically ill after watching it. Shinji has to be the most self conflicted person in the universe... The true movie ending was incredible, and by far the strangest thing I've ever experienced in media.

I actually like Cowboy Bebop more than Evangelion, but Eva is a show no anime fan should miss. It has a genius penguin in it...come on, how can you not like that!?

[edczxcvbnm]

Rah-Xephon is Evangelion on serious hallucogens.

Is that even possible given how Evangelion is...

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Oh yes. Very much so. Evangelion actually makes some sort of sense. Rah-Xephon leavings you thinking you just spent the last however many hours watching Yutaka Izubuchi's private Acid trip.

[edczxcvbnm]

But it makes sense right now

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Wait until the end, it gets REALLY strange.

Of course, the fact that I watched it with Starlight Angel babbling throughout the entire series might have hindered my ability to fully comprehend it...

[edczxcvbnm]

Well I will tell ya what I think when I am done. I am watching ripped english version and I plan on watching the movie...while I heard it is more like a series recap, they said it was from another persons perspective and added to clearing some things up.

[Shlup]

Eva has plenty of dumb parts and plot threads that are too vague to be any fun, but it's still pretty cool overall. I like how Anno was able to basically make the story up as he went along when everything seems so carefully calculated from the very first episodes, and how all the religious symbolism was just thrown in to make the series seem original among a plethora of other giant robot shows with identical themes (i.e. a team of robots battling monsters from beyond earth, a plucky young hero who has a strained relationship with his father, who built the robots he and his teammates pilot, etc), yet people treat it as being deep.

Ditto that. I like it a lot though. Probably has to do with the fact that it was one of the first animes I saw, and the fact that the characters are really screwed up, which earns them a special place in my heart. :<3:

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

It's more interesting when characters are flawed and human. I mean, Kaji's the one with the least problems, and look what happens to him.

[Armisael]

Damn i just realised i have not bought the directors cut dvds
. Must buy now!!!

you can download the director's cut scenes from here:
www.evangelion.tv
director's cut are really very important and they show some really interesting things..

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Well I will tell ya what I think when I am done. I am watching ripped english version and I plan on watching the movie...while I heard it is more like a series recap, they said it was from another persons perspective and added to clearing some things up.

There are two movies--Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion. Death & Rebirth is a series recap with maybe a couple extra scenes thrown in, plus the first half-hour or so of End of Eva. End of Eva itself is all original material, though, being the true end of the series.

[edczxcvbnm]

Your talking about Evangelion Kawaii and I am talking about RahXephon.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Well, stop it.

[edczxcvbnm]

I couldn't help talking about it as they look so similar on the surface

[Lon611]

can sum1 help me out a lil?i just finished watching the entire Neon Genesis Evangelion (only 26 episodes not counting the movies)and im confused about a lot of things. but im gonna start with episodes 25 & 26. whats going on?they defeated the last Angel right?did the world end and that's why everything is all philosophical?

why was the HUMAN COMPLE....(something or other :rolleyes2 ) not really explained?can sum1 help me out on this one?thanks a million