Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion
SE VOCÊ FALA PORTUGUÊS, ME MANDE UMA MP QUE EU TE ENVIO A TRADUÇÃO DISSO. Even someone asked me to review this anime, I'm here to talk about it. Story 8/10 Even a strange BUT GOOD storytelling, "Evangelion" is better than most anime that I have already seen. Just for plot, enjoyment, sake etc. There are few flaws, excepcionally that there is no time to do everything that should be need. Art 8/10In 1995 it could be better, but it is really good at all. It can pass the messages that Hideaki had been planed very well.
Sound 10/10
It's a masterpiece. Both character speak and music (based on Japanese version). Everything fits the events.
Character 9/10
They are very developed and make sense, but sometimes I feel that some feelings and actions are forced or too soon to occur. However, it seems that it's because the short time of show.
Enjoyment 9/10
First of all, the first cour is not very interesting if you don't pay much attention. It's like a below average mecha anime. But it isn't. Since you can pass the beggining, you would enjoy this! However it fails in last 2 episodes. I understood a little what is occuring when I was seeing, but it could be boring or annoying for many people, but don't give up. There are a sequel on the movie "Death & Rebirth" and "The End of Evangelion". Also the "alternative setting" with the "Evangelion 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0". The fourth Rebuild would come at Winter 2015, and it's called by 3.0+1.0.
Overall 9/10
When someone talk about psychedelic, the first thing that comes to my mind is "Evangelion". In a time when most studios bother to animate "shounens" of beating, nosense mecha, comedies and worst novels "Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-Chan" and "Twilight Saga," Anno Hideaki came to revolutionize the anime industry and entertainment in general, becoming a worldwide reference and transforming the world of anime into something more serious. I cannot overlook the classics movies from Ghibli that came out before "Evangelion" (1995) and a few other good anime, but they are exceptions and did not directly impact because it attacked the industry's clichés in general.
That's why I believe that this franchise is one of the main criticisms in the world's media format. Not only the visual entertainment industry, but also the whole global governments "circensis", feeding old traditions and conventions, such as religious affiliations (haha ... The angels are not the "bad guys" for nothing. I could talk a lot about them), prejudice, outdated stories in the history books and deconstructing the world itself created by Hideaki, demonstrating that nothing is what it seems. Who is the villain and who is the hero? Duty is the only thing that matters? What we really are?
Evangelion also shows us that we ourselves create our world, however, the more fled the Collective Reality, worse we stayed. The environment will "give failure." There is a discussion of the balance throughout the series. While we are a destabilizing factor to the environment because we are living beings, we depend on a level of homeostasis with the environment and with our fellow men. But just balance with the environment generates passivity, inactivity, or can even call DEATH.
Well, this is just a summary of what I see in "Evangelion": a deconstruction of our reality and a critique of the entire current thinking model. I just think a shame that most people have not noticed his message. But in a way, Hideaki probably not intended the general public, only those who were able to understand. I understand his position because, really, not all able to "save", as far as we can corcern. I can even get this hint and say that Monogatari Series would be inspired in this regard: the message is not for everyone. The world is not for everyone. No one can be saved except through yourself.