10 Years of Neon Genesis Evangelion

smooth wombat writes "Mainichi Daily News has a lengthy, multi-part article on the history of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The article looks back at the 10 years since Evangelion appeared and how it changed the world of manga." From the article: "In a series of 26 episodes, Evangelion told the story of a 14-year-old boy called Shinji Ikari, who piloted a biomechanical combat robot called an Evangelion, which fought against mysterious extraterrestrial monsters known as Angels. But Shinji was also a regular junior high school pupil, and his school life featured strongly in the anime's plot too. As did psychotherapy and the Old Testament, which director Hideaki Anno attributed as influences while creating the series. Evangelion become a huge hit across Japan, attracting fans across generations, sparking a massive public debate over its controversial final episode -- which many criticized for leaving the work unfinished -- and sparking unprecedented merchandising sales that set the scene for the current manga market."

Comments

Doesn't Bush believe in half of this series ?

[Latinhypercube]

I mean, isn't Bush an Evangelical? And, I don't want to give the plot away, but I will... Angels decend to Earth then everyone flies up to the sky in the RAPTURE. I remember when Bush was asked recentley if the he believed the Apocalypse was destined and he didn't answer... that was 100 x more scarey than Evangelion. This is only one example of the awesome amount of mythology found in Evangelion. And the vast amount of the mythology is Christian and Jewish ie. very relivant to the US. It really makes you analyse how messed up western religion is (also).

SPOILERS

[kyjl]

It's about an emo kid trying to get laid.

Very good series, but way way WAY deep down it doesn't change much from that.