Comments on: Why I hate Neon Genesis Evangelion

By: chi-san

chi-san — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:19:43 +0000

I always asked myself: why aren’t there more people who dislike NGE? The animation-quality was good for the time back then. But the rest is highly disputable. If you watch it for the brutality then you’ll find alot of it there. But the characters and the plot are disturbing and moreover disturbed themselves and thus a messy mess. In my opinion there’s no religious stuff in Neon Genesis Evangelion either. The monsters may have fancy hebrew biblical names attached to them, but they still remain plain monsters only producing gory splatter. I guess some people are just over-interpreting things into it. And while the world is facing armageddon, the character’s main worries are brooding over their psychlogical relationship-issues over and over again. Who agrees?

By: will

will — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:43:35 +0000

To be honest I think it depends what you are looking for from an anime.

This was always aiming to be way more than mechs fighting monsters even though that was big part.

It’s always meant to be highly psychological/philosophical with religious symbology thrown in for stylism.

EoE/ D&B end the series in the way mech fans vs psychology fans preferred, funding issues aside.

It is pitched at a mature audience all the way despite child protagonists, hence the adult humour/themes.

When it comes down to it, you simply didn’t like what the director had in mind and that is absolutely fine. It does not, however, make it a bad series, just one that didn’t develop to many people’s tastes.

W - D

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By: James Parker

James Parker — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:31:50 +0000

Hi Alex, I just stumbled upon this. LOL I agree with you, its one of those subjects you will get criticism for liking it and criticism and fanboy-whining when you’re against it.

I completely agree with your “review” (lol @ somekid), as I felt very awkward aswell when I saw the mecha going apesh** on the town. I am not sure why you went on and watched the whole thing in the end, I felt that “Death” was a good ending to the series as I thought to myself “wicked, its over”.

Keep sticking it to the fanboys,
JamesP!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:49:19 +0000

Hi Somekid,

Many thanks for your reply, and rest assured that you cannot offend me on this matter

As you may or may not have seen with regards to the writing of this article, it is a rant, NOT a review, a rant consisting of nothing more than personal experience when watching the series, backed up loosely on what I know of the background of the series, to not prove my point, but to hint on why I do believe I felt cheated out of my time and money on this.

I am done with giving the series a second chance, I have seen the series twice with all OVA’s and endings, and to be fair to the creators, it was drawn and illustrated in a very nice style, and I never complained about that. What I did complain about was the audacity of the studios to keep this series alive even after all the issues both the series and its founding father had, and even more so when the happenings of ep 16 were screened to a young audience in afternoon TV. If you would like to defend that then go ahead, fanboy, be my guest