Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion
I'm not good with reviews but as NGE is my favorite anime I will try and explain why I think it's a masterpiece. Of course it will have a little bit of spoilers but I will try to not give huge ones. First of all what is Neon Genesis about? It's presented as just another mecha anime but actually the "mechas" and fights aren't important to the series, the focus are the characters, their feelings and how they react what's going on, and how can you learn with them. Story: Well written but a little confusing, a lot of things aren't explanned but this ishow things should be, you can give your own interpretation of what's going on.
Art: Outstanding. Not just the animation or how they mix advanced tecnology with real world elements, what makes it perfect is how they trigger emotions on the watcher. 2 things that are used often are the frozen images that builds tention to the next scene and the images flashes that makes us anxious and try to recap what we just saw.
Sound: The OST is by far my favorite in all anime. All of the soundtracks fit perfect where they should, giving us the right emotions in the right time.
Characters: This is for me what makes NGE so special. Every single character is well developed and you can explore them deeply and understand them. Also, almost all of them can be related with real persons and not just characters. This happens because Hideaki Anno (the author) putted a little of himself in each one of them. If you analyse the whole story by one character point of view you will have different interpretation of the same story, this makes it more real, different people have different interpretation of what happens around itself.
Enjoyment: Well, this topic is very personal, each person have different tastes and will enjoy different. I loved it because how I could put myself in the sorty and take things of it to my own life.
Conclusion: I could talk for hours why I love NGE, but I just think everyone have different opinions and what makes me love it maybe you dislike it or didn't even cared about it. Evangelion is a masterpiece because how diferent people fell about it. This is what art is about, an author put their emotions and interpretation on it but each person will have a different one, and don't matter what they will say, the important is what you think about it.
I think everyone can learn with NGE, everyone can take something from it to it's own life and have different feelings watching. That's why I think it's very personal anime and different people can have completly different opinion and interpretations about it and having a story that don't give you all the answers for everything helps to build those interpretations. For me NGE it's a life lession that says to you that even with problems life can be enjoyable for everyone, you just need to find your place in this world and not run away from it, reality can be thought but it's better than scapng from it.