Yes it showed me that popular animes are usually trash
Riverflowsuphillz2026-01-19 13:58
NGE was a successful failure
Jusenkyo_52026-01-19 13:53
Yes and no. It may be one of the easiest 10/10s I've ever given, but it's not unique in the sense that there's not other similarly breathtaking anime out there. Evangelion came out in 1995, not 1975.
gamebond892026-01-19 13:54
It did set me up for disappointment that was 3.0 + 1.0
UMP45isnotflat2026-01-19 13:54
Its the reason I got into anime proper. One day I was randomly seeing rebuild of evangelion on TV, I was hooked ever since.
Looking back at it thats probably where it all started tumling down for me.
bored_homan2026-01-19 13:56
I watched 4 episodes and didn't really like it then dropped it
so uh
no
politecoconut142026-01-19 14:06
Based
MxK692026-01-19 13:57
it formed the way i see anime, it was the second anime i watched after komi, after that i watched berserk..
Isoi2026-01-19 13:57
The original is pretty boring. The movies are watchable but I mean they're ok.
Riverflowsuphillz2026-01-19 13:58
Not really for me it was Cowboy bepop
Wonderful-Ice90852026-01-19 14:00
Yeah
Life_Is_A_Mistry2026-01-19 14:00
I changed the way I saw David Lynch shows/movies
PerceptionOk85432026-01-19 14:00
I like deep shows but somehow this was a miss for me, not even sure why. I plan to rewatch it one day because it’s been a while. Same case with Monster, everybody praises it but I hated it
But Shinsekai Yori did change how I view anime, and Houseki no Kuni changed my view of mangas. Still haven’t found anything close to those two
Fit_Definition_16812026-01-19 14:01
Nah. I liked the psycho pass season 1 and Durarara. These changed my perspective.
jerepila2026-01-19 14:02
Not really (I came to it sometime after the fact), but seeing it gave me a very easy and popular anime to point to when I want an example of a show that’s artful, ambitious and pushes the boundaries of the form
logikal_panda2026-01-19 14:02
Damn people are hater lol, EVA changed so much for my view on the world and came in such a unique time in my life. I think people do the hindsight 20/20 a lot.
N7CombatWombat2026-01-19 14:03
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Vincedaprince962026-01-19 14:03
I was 15 and struggling with trauma when I first watched EVA and at the time (hear me out on this one) I had never seen a character that resonated with me more than Shinji when it comes to dealing with mental health and psychological issues. it essentially changed how I saw characters in fiction and that they could be more than just ''protagonists'' or ''heroes'', etc.
I haven't rewatched the OG series since, but I'm curious to know what I would think of it now that I'm much older.
Saio-Xenth2026-01-19 14:03
No. I just wish mommy didn’t die
NoliMeTangIcedTea2026-01-19 14:04
Sure, it changed my opinion on popular anime titles and the delusional fans who claim something like this is the best work of fiction.
What really changed? I now firmly believe that overhyped works like NGE deserve to be underhyped instead.
Segelverbot2026-01-19 14:05
I guess it kind of changed how I see Anime. It way the first one I had a real deep connection to. It came at a gime were I could really emphazie with the struggles Shinji went through and why he did what he did.
Even if the films are closer to the original vision Anno had and have merits in their own, I fell in love with tge original version which was heavily influenced by his own mental struggles at that time.
It also motivated me to look behind tge surface level and to try and find tge deeper meaning behind the symbolisms. In the end I guess most if not every character had something I could identify with to this day.
Shiro_no_Orpheus2026-01-19 14:08
Reddit never fails to disappoint.
MarvinTraveler2026-01-19 14:33
Nope. At first it was interesting, but Shinji Oedipus-is-nothing-compared-to-me Ikari quickly managed to be the most annoying, wimpy, unhinged teenager character I’ve ever watched; and that is only the beginning of my complains with this anime.
The last two episodes of the original series are a giant f_you to the audience. In typical Gainax fashion, they concocted a half assed and cheap pseudo-philosophical final because -if memory serves me well- they ran out of money (?!).
I’m fully aware that the series became hugely popular, and therefore Gainax managed to made a movie to finalize the story. While the animation in that movie is in places quite impressive, the weird and unhinged elements of the story were pushed to the extreme:
- In the first scene, Shinji is in a hospital room visiting Asuka, who is bedridden in a coma. By means of a common anime trope, Shinji had in front of him full view of Asuka’s naked body, and proceeds to masturbate right there. Mind you, this not hentai, so the scene is not explicit, however via visuals and sound the situation is crystal clear. To this day, I have not seen a more cringy scene in a mainstream anime.
- Precipitating the end of the movie, Shinji concludes that because he can’t be happy, all of humanity must perish. Credit where credit is due, they managed to make Shinji the ultimate brat.
- During the end of the movie, it is clear that the top brass of the Nerv organization, and several other people, are quite happy because the world is being destroyed.
The Christianity-related elements of the story apparently are there, IMO, because the Japanese audience find them esoteric. I have not looked for an explanation of those things by the author, however. What I remember clearly is reading that the creator of this story, by his own admission, was profoundly depressed when it was done. While using his own emotional situation as a catalyst has huge creative merit, to me this gives the conclusion that the author created a story to “end it all”. This is relevant because a whole bunch of analysis of this anime, attributing philosophical meaning to it, are utterly ridiculous.
Again, I know this anime is immensely popular. To me is little more than trash.
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Looking back at it thats probably where it all started tumling down for me.
so uh
no
But Shinsekai Yori did change how I view anime, and Houseki no Kuni changed my view of mangas. Still haven’t found anything close to those two
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I haven't rewatched the OG series since, but I'm curious to know what I would think of it now that I'm much older.
What really changed? I now firmly believe that overhyped works like NGE deserve to be underhyped instead.
Even if the films are closer to the original vision Anno had and have merits in their own, I fell in love with tge original version which was heavily influenced by his own mental struggles at that time.
It also motivated me to look behind tge surface level and to try and find tge deeper meaning behind the symbolisms. In the end I guess most if not every character had something I could identify with to this day.
The last two episodes of the original series are a giant f_you to the audience. In typical Gainax fashion, they concocted a half assed and cheap pseudo-philosophical final because -if memory serves me well- they ran out of money (?!).
I’m fully aware that the series became hugely popular, and therefore Gainax managed to made a movie to finalize the story. While the animation in that movie is in places quite impressive, the weird and unhinged elements of the story were pushed to the extreme:
- In the first scene, Shinji is in a hospital room visiting Asuka, who is bedridden in a coma. By means of a common anime trope, Shinji had in front of him full view of Asuka’s naked body, and proceeds to masturbate right there. Mind you, this not hentai, so the scene is not explicit, however via visuals and sound the situation is crystal clear. To this day, I have not seen a more cringy scene in a mainstream anime.
- Precipitating the end of the movie, Shinji concludes that because he can’t be happy, all of humanity must perish. Credit where credit is due, they managed to make Shinji the ultimate brat.
- During the end of the movie, it is clear that the top brass of the Nerv organization, and several other people, are quite happy because the world is being destroyed.
The Christianity-related elements of the story apparently are there, IMO, because the Japanese audience find them esoteric. I have not looked for an explanation of those things by the author, however. What I remember clearly is reading that the creator of this story, by his own admission, was profoundly depressed when it was done. While using his own emotional situation as a catalyst has huge creative merit, to me this gives the conclusion that the author created a story to “end it all”. This is relevant because a whole bunch of analysis of this anime, attributing philosophical meaning to it, are utterly ridiculous.
Again, I know this anime is immensely popular. To me is little more than trash.