Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

It was cool spotting all the little things that inspired elements of shows to come, such as Code Geass, Gurren Lagann, even Saya no Uta. OP is just awesome. There were parts of Eva that I really loved, parts that I kinda hated, parts that made no sense, so coming to any final conclusion about this is tricky as I'm not sure when my Eva-induced headache is gonna be passing. There were definitely some things about it that were too what-the-fuck-am-I-watching, so I can't say I understood all of it. Actually, that level of how hard some of it is to grasp, makes me thinkthat maybe those weren't presented or explained optimally. Kill la Kill is how I like my allegory, when the crucial parts are hard to miss.

Another downfall in Eva was religion. It's full of christian (and kabbalah) symbolism and blatantly preaches existence of souls. Anyways, I later confirmed that all of that is merely pretentious and adds nothing to show's actual themes and goals, it's just there to look or sound cool, as if this show needed to be more confusing then it already was. So it wasn't just me not getting it, it's actually ungettable. heh...

What makes Eva special and kinda awesome, is how hard it tries to examine the human condition, and how it uses its characters to do so, and even how freakin far it's willing to go illustrate the human condition, and it indeed paints a most vivid illustration of it. More specifically it deals with connections between humans. It also illustrates depression and various other states of mind rather well. The infamous ending really takes everything up to eleven and ''I don't even...'' factor is... headache...