Shinji: "I'm an average 14 year old teenager with social anxiety, depression and possibly some deeper mental problems. Could you cut me some slack?" Evangelion: "LOL NOPE!" Shinji: "O-okay, I'll try to get better." Evangelion: "And you'll fail each time you try!" Shinji: "W-why?! What the hell do you want from me?!" Evangelion: "I want you to scream!"

I unironically *LOVE* the opening.

I didn't even consider Shinji that whiny. 9 times out of 10, he's the first one in his EVA.

I just finished this series and I don't understand why everybody hates Shinji so much. He literally complained like 4 times throughout the entire show. Plus he was always in the robot first.

I kind of understand why people hate Shinji, but personally I really like his character. People call Shinji a pussy as if they wouldn't try to run away too.

_Neon Genesis Evangelion_ in one sentence: _"What appears to be just another mecha anime soon devolves into a honest-to-god psychological horror that will have you questioning your own sanity."_

Considering Hideaki Anno was going through severe depression and anxiety when he was making this, Shinji literally being the personification of himself and everyone else isn't a suprise.

Anyone who would say NGEs soundtrack is mediocre is a fool, you have no idea what you're talking about.

So Shinji is a bad character because he acts like some people do and not like a generic anime hero.

I've just finished the anime... I really was prepared for an annoying whiny bitchy main character with shinji b/c of this review and other haters... what was all the hate about? shinji is just a troubled teenager with no self-respect due to his dad's absence. yes, he ran away, but he always, always came back in the end. ya haters out there- i guess we just have different perspectives and expectation of what a good main character is.

I suffer from depression and quite regularly I have suicidal thoughts and personally I love every character because I see myself in them. Just like Shinji I always blame every mistake, every failure, every horrible situation on myself. Just like Asuka I expect everyone to now how I feel and understand me and I get upset and angry when they don't, but how will they understand me when I don't say anything. And just like Misato I try to keep upbeat and smile but I am always sad and depressed inside.

just because you're atheist doesn't mean you can't appreciate the religious symbolism. as an atheist myself, religion interests me a lot and I'm sure many Atheists feel the same way. after all, most Atheists are Atheists because they have a greater understanding for religion than your average person. so you being an atheist shouldn't devalue the religious symbolism.

I know i'm gonna get hate for this, but Shinji is one of the best things in Eva.

watching neon genesis evangelion is like having sex in the dark. most of the time you have no idea what's going on, but you're loving every second of it

My final verdict for this anime is.....................ITS AN ANGERU

Just finished this show, and it's probably the weirdest anime I've ever seen, but it's great. Once you understand its concept and underlying themes you'll see why its lives up to its legacy.

This show can get on my "Nerv's" some times. Heh.

A couple of things: Despite the *huge* drop in production value at the end, I really enjoyed the ending. Without spoilers, I'd describe it as being a fly on the wall for a stream-of-consciousness therapy session/interrogation for each of the characters. I think they did the best they could out of what they had, and it gave us (or at least *me*) a fair amount of closure to the psychological issues of the characters, which was what attracted me to Evangelion. Also, I don't think that the religious symbolism had that much of a bearing on the overall thematic structure, except for the Human Instrumentality Project.

"I am your father" would've been a lot less complicated, honestly.

Came and re-watched this, and had to appreciate "its not legally available on streaming services, except maybe netflix eventually or something" and here we are 5 years later and its gonna be on netflix in a couple months

It's painful that the author of the video will realize one day he is not smart at all. Then he will lose the only thing he had... his delusions...

Gundam is the generally accepted mother of Mecha. Evangelion is the sister of that mother, making her your aunt, that tore apart your ideas of Mecha and put in a screwed up yet well done execution. And then you have the twice removed gone to prison at least seven times, with a few trips to the asylum, Uncle of Mecha; Gurren Lagann, who told your aunt to learn just who the Hell she thinks he is, took your ideas of anime, jacked off to them, and fused his testosterone with the ideals, polished it with limitless badassery, and drilled the ideas right back into your head.

What GR thinks good character development would be: "Hey Shinji, cheer up!" "Wow, I never thought of that, I'm not depressed any more. And I have a cool robot to pilot, that's cool as well! I'm suddenly going to become a radically different, heroic person!"

2015 in the anime. we dont have robots yet! nice try ^^

So I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion (and End of Evangelion)... What did I just watch

*LOUD SIGHING* Okay everyone, gather around and let me explain why pilots are all 14 years olds. Now, this refers to the original series, and not the recent movies. WARNING SPOILERS So let me get one thing straight, there are no mothers in the Japan, or rather, there are very few to "mother" the 14 year generation. Why this, you say? Mainly since NERV collected a lot of them for testing, and since EVA were still in the BETA stages, they absorbed pieces of souls, and the human themselves. Two prime exampes are Asuka's mother, and Shinji mother, Yui. While Asuka mother did live, she was not in the correct mental state. She worked for NERV, and developed the EVAs, so it makes sense that she would pilot it. She devoted her time into this, and due to that, the EVA ( Unit 02 in fact ) absorbed a bit of her soul. The reason I say Unit two, is that when Yui died, Shinji was barely a toddler. Unit 01 was almost developed, so that meant Uni 02 was on its was after. In Asuka's flashback scenes, we see her as a young child ( around 4 or 5 ) so being placed in Germany were Unit 02 was developed, it makes sense. Now onto Yui. She was completely absorbed into Unit 01. Her soul was still inside Unit 01 while Shinji was piloting it. So when Shinji had that big realization that his mother was always with him, SHE LITERALLY WAS. She was trapped inside the EVA. The same with Asuka, but not to the same degree. Because in the "End of Evangelion" she is talking about how her mother was always with her. Because Asuka's mother's soul ( a bit of it at least ) was trapped inside the EVA. Now that was have the basics down, we can move on. Now there are two missing pieces. Rei and Touji. Rei is a being created from Yui, so it would stand to reason why the dummy plug system would work on Unit 01, and she could pilot Unit 00. The origins of Unit 00 are unknown, so we aren't really sure who was absorbed into it. Now Touji. He doesn't have mother, and the pattern so far elludes to that. It would make sense that in Tokyo 3 that a lot of the parents would work at Nerv. As for WHY the need the mother's souls, a mother provides comfort to a child. So it would stand to reason why they would pick the mother's soul. Also, they did this to give the EVAs a soul, since beforehand they were just robots. But adding a soul made it a being. It was NERV's plan from the beginning. Now that is just the strongest theroy. There are others, such as Second Impact took place 14 years before the anime, and all the characters are 14 years old ( duh ). Also the AT field is speculated to stand for "Absolute Terror". When Kaworu asks Shinji if he knew what an AT field was, he was trying to explain the physical barrier someone puts up when they are scared and or hurt. Like having an emotional breakdown, which all of them did. Some more than others, but, it still makes sense. Now this is just a quick overview of the whole thing, but the gist of it is "NERV killed the mother, or extracted the the souls so that their children could pilot the EVAs safely." The End

I really can't say I agree with this guy, maybe he didn't have enough time to fully deconstruct parts which he originally wanted, but he really liked to nitpick and gloss over the parts that make Evangelion a unforgettable anime

Shinji's dad: the ultimate savage.

I really liked the ending. It was, of course, quite abstract. But it was really cool. And I really didn't notice the animation problems throughout.

Everyone has a shinji in them. People don’t like confronting a flawed version of themselves on screen.

I'm not a troll I just don't find the show very appealing to my tastes you can like it and I can see why other people like it but I'm just not a fan

I only got into the show because I really like kaiju films and I thought it was TOTALLY worth it and I actually felt for the characters.

In what way did Shinji not grow a backbone? If anything, his problem was recklessness. The dude's almost always the first to volunteer going out on the front line. This is a kid who was so emotionally scarred and broken, that he could only find self-worth in throwing himself into combat (as it was the only thing his piece of shit father ever praised or even noticed him for). In this way he and Asuka are two sides of the same coin; only difference being she protects herself by lashing out in social situations rather than withdrawing (until that one sense of self-worth is taken from her and she becomes catatonic ... still the most tragic part of the anime for me). Shinji has one of the most complex character developments I've ever seen, and it baffles me how people dismiss him as a whiny little bitch. I'll take another Shinji over a simple-minded shounen protagonist any day.

(No Spoilers included) In my opinion, I thought that Neon Genesis Evangelion was brilliant. I found that the plot was incredibly complex and interesting, likely because I have a good understanding and knowledge of the book of Genesis (yet I'm not particularly religious, but I do find the concept to be worthy of thought). As an (somewhat) introverted person, I found it satisfying to contemplate the meaning behind this anime, for example with the large psychological aspect and the different perspectives on life that this show provided, I took a while to consider all of this, and I once again found myself captivated and interested in how things would progress. Another reason why I found this anime to be good is that I took my time with it, only watching 2 or 3 episodes at a time, with breaks to watch something more upbeat and to simply process the events (I should note that I watched the subbed version, so I had to focus more on reading, unfortunately - but from what I've seen, the subbed is certainly better than the dubbed version). And finally (yes, finally - I tend to ramble and get lost in thought too often), I made sure to take this slowly, so that any hype I had prior to going into this would dissipate, which, upon reflection, I would say positively contributed to my overall enjoyment of the show (P.S. I did find Shinji to be slightly irritating at times, but it was because he was so unusual did I find interest in "dissecting" his character).

Shinji ran away once. Plus he did the most shit out of anyone.

I believe that this review misinterprets the ending of evangelion's original series (as I believe many people do). This is primarily because as the show starts as a mecha story with psycological elements mixed in it, one may think that the "religious" symbolism is only for religious people. However, I do believe that other is the case. In fact, I believe that the ending of the original series is the answer to the general philosophical problem that the rest of the story represents: the problem about the rebellion against unavoidable death established by an unkown cause (be it God, nature, Destiny...). In fact, in the original series it is never explained the angels origin. By building the evas, humans try to rebel against such death, trying to live BEYOND god, not as created beings but by "being themselves". Thats why, in the last 2 episodes, the "solution" to the rebelion is not an Super Uber Mega Mecha fight, but the realization of Shinji´s freedom from god ("I want to be me"). It is the absolute freedom, which is only understood in the end. Before that (as this review clearly shows), Shinji is haunted by GUILT, the guilt that results from the absolute responsability implied by this rebellion and independence from God. As such, man lives beyond god´s wishes, and becomes fully responsible for his acts and (Hedgehog´s dilemma), others. Evangelion shows how Shinji passes from the guilt caused by his inability to recognize or accept his responsability as man-beyond-god, to the final realization that in such responsability of himself lies absolute freedom. The fact is that this interpretation (that I believe to be correct) closes the philosophical under-plot of the show, while many people expected only the mecha-plot ending or a clear ending to the action plot. While I understand that the original series ending does not give closure to such plot, I believe that gives a clear view of the general plot as a whole (and ultimately, the meaning of the whole story: the event of human rebellion against god).

There was the elevator scene and I was like.. are you girls going to move or talk? xD They stood there for almost a whole minute lol

Recommendations school days and boku no piko... I wonder how many confused people actually searched for those :D

Whenever the EVA goes berserk that was my favorite theme.

All of the characters, while some are not *likable*, they are incredibly *interesting* and *complicated* as FUCK. My only problem with the show is its weird pacing at times. It cuts to some scenes wayyy to quickly but it does know when to slow down to let things sink in.

2 years later and we're still waiting on 3.33 to get to the United States. Ark, yer gonna have a bit of a wait before that Rebuild project happens. At this rate if you run out of material you might as well start doing every other Gundam first. It'll take less time

there is not a whole lot to "analyze" about the religious symbolism, it's just a stylistic choice the creators did without much depth to it. It just parallels concepts in the story with concepts in the bible. They're references that make the story seem more universal, and more deeply rooted in human history. It was a very clever choice although I personally think they overdid it a bit with the endless crosses at times (comin from someone who still considers Evangelion to be possibly the best anime of all time)

Ok

The pilots are young because they have to of been born after the second impact and the eldest of people compatible would be 14

I finished this anime yesterday and I didn't understand anything. And everyone in the anime has parental issues. This is perhaps the most fucked up thing I've watched since the movie π.

Spring 2019 and you can finally stream this series on Netflix.

I'm a Christian and most of the religious symbolism I either didn't notice or didn't think was important. What made this show truly brilliant was how it deconstructed the mecha genre and explored the complexities of the human mind. While it isn't really the most entertaining series, it's certainly one of the most brilliant ones. I must also say that I think that the last three episodes are spectacular and one of the best endings I've ever seen. I've yet to see End of Evangelion though, so I can't make that comparison.

I literally just finished watching the series. Where exactly is Shinji this whiny wimp everyone says he is? He does what he's asked almost all the time. He almost never runs away and when he did, it was after his piloting was currently done. He never abandons his duty when it's required and he even picks up the pieces when others fuck up. It's everyone else who has the massive flaws. Honestly, I was disappointed, not confused at the end because it tries to force characteristics that were pretty minor or nonexistent. What doesn't make sense is how he is treated by others, particularly the adults. They NEED him, not the other way around and yet they act like tools saying go away if you don't like the horrible things we force you to do. But this is for the fate of the world, so why even give him the option? They literally could not have survived without him.

I liked it your review. It was very objective. You got all the points that make this anime great and the obvious bad things as well, without being a fanboy or a hater.

I'm glad I found this channel :)

Welcome back to another edition of Shinji's Happy Happy Fun Time with Kaiju!

10:34 My reaction to the last two episodes.

Perfect troll in the beginning you had me for a second there...

I personally don't find Shinji to be whiny. As someone who was also depressed at the age of 14, I thought he was a really good portrayal of someone who's going through a period of depression at that age.

Any advice on how to get the box set the only ones I could find on amazon were $300+ and I don't know much about prdering from other sites

Can someone please help me? I've bought a copy of End of Evangelian that was a combo disk with Death and Rebirth included with it. The DVD looks shady, almost as if it was a bootleg.The point of this message is that at the end of the move (End of Evangelian) it does not show a scene that apears to be a huge Rei laying in a pool of blood, but rather shows a "to be contenued" message once Shinji awakens Eva unit 01. Is this the correct ending, and the the one with the huge Rei is an alternative ending? If so please let me know it has been troubling me immensely.

For an accurate review of this series, simply stop watching this video at the one minute mark and take a cue to go read Ender's Game instead.

Why havent Arcada alredy made a welcome to the nhk review?

So finally getting around to buying it. Any suggestions to get good quality OG series in prices less than $100. Dammit amazon.

6:09 A Trope originator. You don’t see that every day.

Also you need to do FLCL and conclusively explain to us whether it's furi or kuri.

last two episodes is literally a slide show

"hideaki anno must have not liked this ending or else he wouldn't have tried to remake it. twice" he remade it the first time because he got death threats, and the second time because he was no longer depressed ?

is this the anime that everyone says has a fucked up ending ?

"For the love of Haruhi." I know she's... yeah. What she is, but that line just caught me of guard xD

After I have watched the entire story, I can definitively say that Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the best anime ever made. The plot is certainly interesting, with all the intrigue of Seele and Gendo while seeing our main characters try to save humanity when in reality nothing they do can stop the Third Impact (spoiler to End of Evangelion, sorry). The characters are the real thing that thus show excels at, giving even minor characters development and an interesting psyche (examples: Toji Suzuhara and Ritsuko Akagi). Even the main villains have a fantastic reason as to why they will do everything that they do. Pause: Gendo Ikari is not a bad character, he is just someone who has only ever loved one person and will even end the human race if it means that he can be with Yui again. The main characters also get a lot of development and insight into their psyche, with the best of the bunch having to be Shinji. An absolute masterpiece that I'd say is required viewing if you want to know what the anime medium can do. P.s. For the love of God, please watch End of Evangelion after finishing the series. It answers almost all unanswered questions and provides a feeling of closure to this great series (the last two episodes are not bad, but End of Eva is a much better conclusion.

i just wanna know the piano music used in the background.

I never watched the last two episodes of NGE and skipped directly to End of Evangelion. I'm going to watch Rebuild but I wanted to see NGE once more. Should I watch the last two episodes now just to experience the mind screw?

He talks about the hype factor but honestly the amount of people that shit on this almost put me off and when I did finally get around to watching it I enjoyed it immensely, much more so than I thought I would.

One of My Recommended Viewing Orders ___________________________________ 01. Neon Genesis Evangelion (Episodes 01-20) 02. New Production Cut [Director's Cut] Versions of Episodes 21-24 03. Neon Genesis Evangelion (Episodes 25-26) 04. The End of Evangelion [Watch With The Japanese Dub] ___________________________________

ok I need help. I've been searching for this for a long time. When I was a kid I saw an episode of what I can only remember as being anime. it was this robot girl but she looked human for the most part. the episode was sort of orange and it looked like she was dying and a guy was trying to save her but she fell or something. I really can't explain it better except that it was on tv and dubbed. probably on toonami. you know that snippet of a movie or tv show you saw as a kid that you can't remember the name at all but it slowly eats at the back of your head? I NEED TO KNOW

since evangelion was remade twice what r the names of the remakes and should i watch them instead of the original or watch the original

i have to say i watched Evangelion to the end (only because i hate leaving things have way done) and i really didnt like it.....i mean i see what they tried to do but i just......meh it wasnt for me it was waaaay to fucked up for my brain to handle.......i prefer gundam waaaaaaaaay over this but just because i dont like it dosent mean its bad actually its quite good.....i just dont like it personally  Edit : after rewatching it I like it it just really dicks the brain hard

they tried to make the anime unnecessarily complex while the story was not, it's not a bad story but it would have been much better if they just told it in a different way instead of putting weird scenes together which are sometimes not even correlated to each other, just so anyone in the end is like "hmm... it was hard to understand this anime, it must be pretty damn good" It's not a bad anime, but c'mon. - 7/10 (imo)

I love the first minute of this video so much. I’m pretty sure I’ve contributed an unhealthily high number to your view count just to rewatch the whole first minute again and again xD

Does anyone know where i can get this for relatively cheap ($50-)?

I can't tell if I made a great choice or a mistake by making this the first ever anime I ever watched

To be fair that scene from episode 4 was probably my favourite

ok so i just got to the last two episodes of the series, and someone told me i should just skip them because its a waste of time and just go to end of eva, but that really confused me why would i skip the ending eps and what about the movie Death and Rebirth?

I grew up with anime from the late 80s thru the mid 90s. I love mecha anime and somehow some way I never watched evangelion. Also I am a Godzilla fan and the creator of Evagalion just Co directed what I think is a masterpiece, Shin Godzilla. this has spiked my interest in going back and watching Evagalion. should I just start from the beginning and watch the original run, or is there a better place to start?

Grarkada the bingo sheet isn't there... :'(

Here after binge watching it via Netflix

Excellent review, spot on.

Where can I watch this show ? I cant find it on Crunchyroll

Ok, where's our Eureka Seven review?

The only thing I could appreciate about this anime was watching it's creator spiral into madness from episode to episode. Watching that misery unfold before me was a thing of beauty.

so should i buy it or not im confused ? An d the other movies

Holy shit, I love your Gankutsuou poster! And ... I have the collector's tin. But it was a present so I can't complain.

Yet another great review. Although the financial problems were pretty obvious near the end I'm not sure how much of the final two episodes would've been different. Especially since the "End of Evangelion"-movie looked more like Anno trolling his fanbase and saying:"So you want a different ending? Here I'll give you an ending" and then lured the viewer with one of the most fantastic battle scenes in anime history, just to dump them straight back into introspective mindfuck-city during the second half of the movie. Although weirdly enough I understood the ending of EoE much better than that of the show. The only thing in this review that I can really disagree on is the soundtrack which to me has some of the most memorable tracks in anime history, with the various numbered "Rei"-tracks, "the Beast II", "Thanatos" or even the more relaxed character themes from the beginning of the show, or the hauting/creepy ones from the more mindfucking scenes. But well maybe that's just a difference in personal musical taste, as for example the Baccano OST does absolutely nothing for me, and yet everyone else seems to love it. Also my judgment concerning this show is very clouded, since it has been my absolutely favourite Anime since I started watching, and probably still is.

I watched the entire series, End of Evangelion, and the first 2 rebuilds over the span of 3 days. partway through i took a free quiz online that said i possibly have Moderate to Severe Depression now. so even though its a good series, perhaps watching it all in a very short period of time isn't too healthy

does any one know the name of the song that plays in the background at 6:46

I finally watched the series and EoE an hour ago and I have no idea how to react to it. I'm completely shocked, mindfucked and confused all at the same time but funnily enough I didn't find the anime bad..quite the contrary I actually liked it. Good thing I had to go and youtube a few videos for them to explain the ending and overall plot in more detail so I would understand exactly wtf happened at the end of EoE and I actually rather liked it. Gonna hold off on watching Rebuild series until the final movie comes out in 2015. Thanks for the review Arkada!

Here's a short review of your review: I like your relatively high production value, objective reviewing skill, interesting facts added and a bit of jokes. My pointer made it to the Subscribe button and I clicked it. On a side note I saw Evangelion in it's entirety about 8 years ago, a rather dark time of my life since I suffered a severe depression and though of ending my life. I sort of identified myself with Shinji because he was pretty similar to me. The final episodes brought my brain into a state of euphoria and made me rethink my life in a different way. I won't say that Evangelion cured me of my depression because that would be bullshit but It did make me reconsider certain things and gave a slight nudge into the right direction. For this I think Evangelion id one of the greatest anime shows that I have ever seen because it's rare for an anime to trigger strong emotions in me, especially with the newest shows that are coming out.

:^) Feels good to own this on DVD. No more having to look all over the internet for this damned anime.

I find the secret behind the evangelions and the concept of holding hostage a GOD!, quite interesting. Also the intro is very memorable for some reason.

I know there would have been spoiler issues - but has anyone thought of studying or treating the EVA's as characters in their own right? The thought only just occurred to me and that approach might be quite interesting, especially for Unit 01.

the beginning made me laugh so hard, this review was good. Funny how he has a love hate relationship with this series.

lmfao, he predicted Netflix getting Eva 17:49

Anyone know where I can watch the full anime? Cause I watched 1.11 (I think ((remake)) and I was extremely intrigued, it's most of everything I like (If you could recommend amines like this one too that'd be A1-mazing)

So which collection is best to purchase: Perfect or Platinum?