Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

I got sick of having to say "I havn't seen Evangelion" especially when I said "I didn't like evangelion," so I finally downloaded it and watched it. Im not a fan of anime cliche's at all, so the first part of the series was extremely hard to get through. Every time that penguin did something unexpected, i just heard legions of anime nerds laughing obnoxiously in my mind. The whole seeing rei naked thing was ridiculous and stupid, and the sweat beads and small eyes when embarassing things happened were awful too. And don't get me started on the happy music. I really started toenjoy it around the episode where Asuka showed up. I liked her character a lot, mostly because she doesn't act like a japanese person. After that i had a lot of fun with the series. It was enjoyable, and then became kinda deep and depressing, which was refreshing, since its not cliche and stupid.

Oh, im gonna stick this in here, I've heard a lot of people complain about how big of a bitch shinji is, and I can see that in the first few episodes, but he accepts his duty pretty readily later on in the series. He's not really that big of a bitch, so i can't hate him that much.

Spoiler free, the ending, which i've heard a lot of people complain about, was .... to say the least, awful. I guess they ran out of money, but they kind of abandoned the entire plot and went in a totally different and stupid direction and didn't resolve anything. The last few scenes don't make sense, and not in a cool "the world isn't real and everyone is dead" kind of way that I expected...it's just confusing because it barely relates to anything that has happened. Actually the entire reason I'm writing this review right now is because I hated the ending so much. If you've never seen this, I'd recommend you watch episode 24 and then stop. Nothing happens after that. If you feel like you HAVE to finish the show, go right ahead, but I told you so.

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