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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."
way too much tentacle rape
does this?
When is /. going to grow up and quit covering this nonsense. No adult CARES about these silly cartoons. Grow up guys.
(mod me down if you wish... that doesn't change the truth)
Anime is really pretty sucky. This is one of the best series anime has to offer, and it's not THAT great. I enjoyed it, but I'd rate it somewhere just above your average B grade Hellboy/Resident Evil sci-fi/adventure, and way below Star Wars or something similar. Akira is probably the closest anime has to anything great. And yeah, that probably tics the hardcore fans off that I didn't have to watch it at an anime con (one of which I have attended, where I realized Anime does indeed suck, there aren't more series like Eva or Akira, instead there's just campy crap where a pengiun walks into the room, starts eating breakfast or drinks a beer and the room erupts with laughter). So back to Eva, I've heard the end few episodes are surreal and whatnot, not by design, but because they ran out of budget. You'd think with a format like Anime where special effects don't require millions of dollars, there would be all kinds of great stories that get told through this medium. Let's face it, Anime is pretty poor. Someone should bring back stitching together different series into one... that worked just about as well as something new.
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).
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.
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