Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

This has to be one of the most over rated anime I have seen in my life. Story- We have NERV, the super duper military complex builder, who will waste ammo on Angels and sacrifice service men to not even delay any Angels. Conveniently the EVA's can use assault rifles and other armament that NERV can't simply make into mobile weapon units to maybe hurt the Angels with. The disconnect is when an EVA uses a projectile weapon it suddenly turns into a weapon that can negate the force fields of Angels and sometimes out right kill them. This is unexplained and a veryglaring plot-hole it self.

Now I can see how wasting ammo at the beginning can introduce the viewers to how powerful the Angels are, but repeatedly doing so is very dumb...

This same NERV , that is composed of elite military minds, decided that 14 years old kids will be the controllers and pilots of weapons of mass destruction or EVA's. This plot seemed like the typical shounen plot-line, but its so far from it, very far.

Art-

We have fluid motion and nice hand drawn frames. Everything looks and flows well while somewhat dated by today's standards, it is still very watchable.

There are some questionable biblical symbolism. I am not sure what they mean. They might be meaningless.

Sound-

The sound was very good for the most part. All the music seemed to fit to the situations and that is as much as I can say for that as I am not very big on music.

Characters -

Shinji. This guy alone corrupts the whole show. The other characters were all decently crafted, but they all were overshadowed by Shinji and placed to help prop up the loser that is Shinji. So I will focus on Shinji.

Seriously. I do not understand how he can be so self loathing. I know people without arms, without legs, blinded, the deaf, the poor, the starved, and people have the gale to say "Shinji is realistic". In my eyes I can't even fathom such a wimpy person. I understand people get depressed, and sometimes that mental illness can make you not care at all, but when the show is 99% self pity while nearly 99% of the world needs you to fight and you keep calling your self worthless. It becomes a chore to watch. Over and over again. It happens. The self loathing is so unnatural, even the most depressed person in the world when given the purpose of SAVING HUMANITY would at least love them self a little more. Give themselves more worth and at least try to do something with thier, in thier mind, "worthless life". When your life is worth almost all of humanity it should tend to be worth a lot more. The show hardly gives Shinji the development he deserved. This is a black stain on Hideaki Anno career.

Enjoyment-

It was a very hard watch. I wanted to complete the show before reviewing it or else I would have dropped it at around ep 4.