Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

This review will cover up all the 26 episodes from the TV series + the movie sequel End of Evangelion , because the movie itself is needed to explain a lot of stuff that you won't get by the end of the last two episodes + a real ending to the series. Story 9/10 Now the real deal in this show is its story , while it begins with the angel of the week formula which is done nicely but not good enough to invest you to the show at first , but as it gets to its complex side of the story , you will realisethat it is nothing generic as its first 13 episodes suggest, but this is the point where people do decide if this show is genius or is it bad? , I would have to say genius , one of the problems of the story is that it always half feeds the watchers , which makes us not knowing of what is happening next and we have to rely on our own assumption , luckily the movie feeds the other half , and given they had a bigger budget than what they had to start this series would have given it way greater potential. but at least I can say that the story is its strongest points.

Art 7/10
Well the series suffers from its unappealing art , and while the art is OK, it does not give an appeal to the series , of course I do understand the problem with the tight budget but it is fair to include this point , the art in the movie was amazing and superb.

Sounds 7/10
The voices are great , the opening and ending too , I just had one question in my mind , Is there really any BGM's running in the background , I do not remember listening to any BGM. and this is funny considering that I found OSTs released. Yet most of the show had no music just dialogue. In the movie there were a handful ones but I can't remember them clearly.

Characters 9/10
If I stopped at the first 13 episodes the characters side would have got a 6 or a 7 , the next 13 episodes showed that this was just the beginning and it got an 8 from my personal view and the movie makes it a 9 , because the characters are generic at first glance, because as I heard they created the generic term. Rei Ayanami's character has been copied so much to death that when I saw it at first glance I was bound to reject the character. and so is Shinji's character , but you do realise how genuine their character is unlike the shows that copied it. and the show is strong at character development, and it is the core in which how the show progresses within.

Enjoyment 9/10

I did enjoy the show at most times , its misses weren't that much , but it could have had a better start and more importantly if they used background music to all its defining moments the show could have been way better. With that said , The story and the characters are amazing and this definitely needs a remake with the same story in my opinion.

Overall (9 + 7 + 7 + 9 + 9)/5 = 8.2
Ceiling 8.2 is 9
so it is a 9/10 (Excellent)

Note : This is by far the only mecha series that I have gotten along with and enjoyed everything including the mecha battles