Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

I love watching anime and there are brilliant anime. So I heard that this one is considered to be a "masterpiece" and a "must watch" anime, so I thought I give it a try. Oh man, I'm so disappointed. Maybe my next words could contain spoilers. At the very beginning of NGE I had an optimistic intention. The story begins very interesting, there are these Angels and Evas and there was a battle ages ago and now the people are once more offended by the Angels. But when you think that this anime will be an awesome action adventure story with a great protagonist than youarrive at that moment when reality hits hard. Not that I'm not tolerant towards science fiction and serious/complex anime but this one is more like a psychological "why am I here and what is the sense of life" anime and I don't like it.

The protagonist Shinji is one of the most demotivational and uninspired charackter in anime history. He is whinning almost all the time about himself and his unnecessarity. The last episodes deals with questions like "are you confident?" Do you want to live? Do you hate yourself? I see the potential of this anime, it wants to be well structured and entirely complex but in the end it is too abstract and confusing.

To end this review I can say that you should watch this anime if you like psychological and paranoid anime with discussions of your feelings and interpretations of the human being, but if you want to watch an anime with an adventure action story, with frightning moments and strong and confident charackters you should watch other anime, maybe Kanabari of the iron fortress or attack on titan.