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Get in the robot, Shinji

If you hadn't seen my blatherings on Facebook or received stupidly captioned screencaps via Snapchat you wouldn't know that I blitzed the entirety of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion in two days straight. And ...what the hell even is this show. All 26 episodes plus the End of Evangelion film (bad idea watching that at midnight. Bad idea) last weekend and my brain still hasn't been fully detoxed of Eva feels. The series is equal parts mind-numbingly bewildering and just plain weird, and neither ending actually provides a decent conclusion that makes any sense, but overall it's not a bad show, just heavily flawed. I might do a journal post on it at some point, I have a hell of a lot to say about this show. One aspect of the show I did adore was the aesthetics - great costume/uniform designs, settings and of course the robots, so maybe expect more fanart at some point. I have a lot of un-concluded character feels to deal with, mainly background characters with pretty much no development at all /sob/

I know the general consensus is that Shinji is The Whiniest Kid in Anime History, and he's often called the worst character in the series, but I find both entirely undeserved and I could write an entire essay defending this boy (I was planning to do it here but then decided against it, I'd be here for literally hours) regardless of how unpopular that opinion is. I will not defend everything about him (DEFINITELY not the first five minutes of End of Eva because WHAT THE FUCK SHINJI) but, as a character, I feel like he gets a lot of undeserved hate. I can sort of see why he gets that reaction but in my opinion that's down to bad writing rather than him being an inherently rubbish character.

I'm aware of the 2007 remake, and will be watching it soon, with my fingers crossed that it's not so much of a trainwreck of psychoanalysis and teenage angst. Sorry if you love this show, it just didn't float my boat as much as I anticipated. As for those who haven't seen it, I'd still recommend it if you're a fan of giant robot/sci fi anime, as long as you just roll with it and don't try and understand it. Your brain will hurt too much. On that note, feel free to get your nerd on in the comments, I'd love to get a few discussions going about the show and what other people thought of it!

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Get in the robot, Shinji

If you hadn't seen my blatherings on Facebook or received stupidly captioned screencaps via Snapchat you wouldn't know that I blitzed the entirety of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion in two days straight. And ...what the hell even is this show. All 26 episodes plus the End of Evangelion film (bad idea watching that at midnight. Bad idea) last weekend and my brain still hasn't been fully detoxed of Eva feels. The series is equal parts mind-numbingly bewildering and just plain weird, and neither ending actually provides a decent conclusion that makes any sense, but overall it's not a bad show, just heavily flawed. I might do a journal post on it at some point, I have a hell of a lot to say about this show. One aspect of the show I did adore was the aesthetics - great costume/uniform designs, settings and of course the robots, so maybe expect more fanart at some point. I have a lot of un-concluded character feels to deal with, mainly background characters with pretty much no development at all /sob/

I know the general consensus is that Shinji is The Whiniest Kid in Anime History, and he's often called the worst character in the series, but I find both entirely undeserved and I could write an entire essay defending this boy (I was planning to do it here but then decided against it, I'd be here for literally hours) regardless of how unpopular that opinion is. I will not defend everything about him (DEFINITELY not the first five minutes of End of Eva because WHAT THE FUCK SHINJI) but, as a character, I feel like he gets a lot of undeserved hate. I can sort of see why he gets that reaction but in my opinion that's down to bad writing rather than him being an inherently rubbish character.

I'm aware of the 2007 remake, and will be watching it soon, with my fingers crossed that it's not so much of a trainwreck of psychoanalysis and teenage angst. Sorry if you love this show, it just didn't float my boat as much as I anticipated. As for those who haven't seen it, I'd still recommend it if you're a fan of giant robot/sci fi anime, as long as you just roll with it and don't try and understand it. Your brain will hurt too much. On that note, feel free to get your nerd on in the comments, I'd love to get a few discussions going about the show and what other people thought of it!