Evangelion Reviewed In LA Times

peter_gzowski writes "Neon Genesis Evangelion, perhaps the greatest anime series ever, has been reviewed in the LA Times. This coincides with the release of the box set of the entire series (not including the movies, which come out on DVD in the fall). Hooray for mainstream credibility!" Best series if I can somehow overlook the final eps of the original series.

Comments

Whoa! Hermos is THAT GUY?

[Tokerat]

...Worst episode, ever.

how many dvds total now

[tenman]

As someone who has never watched this series before, I would like to know how many of these DVD's I need to look for. Of course I'm only going to watch them because of the /. peer presure, and so I only want the good ones. I ended up reading LOTR because it seems to be a /. geek shrine, so I'll bite on this one too. So, what should I get?

Engrish

[Da Penguin]

I hope the transaltion is better then in some of the fansubs. This is one of the top series (Lain is also groovy), but I've always wondered what is meant in the opening theme by "The cruel angel's thesis bleeds".

Even the stuff on engrish.com makes more sense then that

Re:The last eps are the BEST!

[danny256]

A lot of people in Japan were angry about the last 2 episodes. There was such a public outcry that three movies were made, the last two of them gave a more finite and clear ending to the story.

my sig

[joenobody]

For the funniest commentary I've ever seen on the silliness that is Evangelion, start here. It's a condensation and parody and I anyone in the "it's such a great and moving series!" camp should read it. And take a cold shower.

Offtopic

[Myuu]

Oh God, if lain made sense I woould shoot myself...

I always said that you would have to be high to get Lain. My friend tried it...he still could not understand it.

I should befriend a Mushroom junkie and see if it takes a little more =/

Re:I may be the only person ever that hated it

[RabeiUsura]

well, i'm the person n2 who hates evangelion.. And i want to make clear that lots of people crying and whining does not make a story profound.

Clustermindfuck

[Phunky Monkey]

This is the only word that can be used to describe what Eva does to you. If you want to see some fucked up shit, see the End of Eva movie (before you do that, watch all of the episodes in the series, as it is a SERIES and no episodes should be skipped or watched out of order). I'll try not to spoil, but the bulk of the clustermindfucking is done in the last half of the movie, and that comes to a head just before (perhaps 15 seconds before) the very end. I guarentee that after watching this, you will find yourself crying naked in a corner, covered in your own excriment, unable to speak. Yes, it's that good.

Also... to those not aquainted with the world of Ultra-CMF (see title of this post) viewing: if The Matrix is a 0 on the CMF scale, and Eva is 100 (and it is)... then Ghost in the Shell is roughly a 93, Serial Experiments: Lain scores about an 85, and Akira scores a good 25. EVERY GEEK SHOULD WATCH THESE.

Though, I'll offer a word of warning: once you have viewed the above titles, your opinion of the bulk of Hollywood movies will go down the shitter. Personally, I find myself watching The Matrix and other movies that I had previously found to be "profound" and thinking to myself how blatently obvious they are.

As for the rest of the world of anime, I generally stay away from ~99% of it, as it is underbudget, retarded crap. Of course, if it's something you're in to collecting as a hobby (as CmdrTaco is), then that's your own thing.