Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

Because I am one of his few detractors For two reasons. A. The plot is tricky. You are presented as "very deep" that which is only poorly explained (or unexplained at all). Alas, if the scriptwriters were asked "What is the correct interpretation of Evangelion?" they would have to answer: "None: materially there is none. This was not written by God to test the wisdom of men; we wrote it to make our money and we take it much less seriously than you guys." As Joyce mockingly said about Ulysses "I have put so many keys in it that critics will be 100 years trying todiscover them all." It is the same trick. As simple as that.

B. The protagonists fight against the monsters and with themselves; their own doubts, fears and weaknesses. The idea is very good, but it is very badly put into practice. They are literally living the end of the world but the possibility that they will kill them or humanity is the only thing that does not scare them. They charge a monster that is swallowing half the city and comes to feel guilty: "Poor little monster, why did I have to kill him? How bad am I, how bad am I!" And let's not talk about the dumbest introspection yet: "Who am I? Why do I pilot an Eva? Why do I pilot an Eva?" (The easiest explanation that they do it to save the world and incidentally their own skin does not occur to them). PLEASE, there is no one who believes it. Very interesting movies have been made about war fatigue and there is nothing wrong with making an anime too, but let's be real for God. That approach is not credible.

I give it a 4 just because the action scenes are good (in Macross I have seen them better) and the design too. And because it has Asuka and Misato, who are two really interesting characters