| NEON GENESIS EVANGELION |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion Created by Hideaki Anno Reviewed by The Fist of Death Plot: 10 out of 10 Characters: 8 out of 10 Music: 9 out of 10 Animation: 9 out of 10 Dialogue: 10 out of 10 Overall Score: 47 out of 50, 94%, A Special Comments: I need some Prozac. |
| SUMMARY: The year is 2015. Half the human race is dead from a mysterious event called Second Impact. Now, the shadowy entities known as Angels have begun to attack once more, and only three Children, employed by the government, can stop them. Using incredible mechas, the Evangelions, they wage war on the Angels. Sounds like your typical mecha anime, just another GUNDAM spin-off. Oh look, a giant alien is attacking. Quick, get that supposedly bishonen guy over there who will be the most popular guy in the school, have all the ladies after him, and practically has MUNCHKIN stamped on his forehead. That's what you thought, didn't you. Don't worry friend, we all did. We all did. Well we were WRONG! The 'bishonen munchkin' is now a super-reclusive, depressing, spineless boy who lets people walk over him, and is opposed to even getting into the 'mighty mecha that can fly, run, shoot, and make chop suey with only two little joysticks and some blank yellow screens, made out of some invincible alloy while running off of a never-explained infinite power source with no apparent input from other generators' which I will explain later. The 'charming, super-hot, ultra-chick who immediately befriends our hero and audience and develops a crush on him and vice versa, so by the end of the series they're fucking each other's brains out' is the next step up on the evolutionary ladder. Bitchimus Maximus, the Uberbitch. Sure, you like her initally, like we all do, but that's just conditioning. By her third or fourth episode you just want to walk up to her with a Glock 9 and go BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM! The 'other chick who is competiton for the supergirl and causes infinite relationship trouble for them but they still shrug it off and screw.' can give philophsical monks lessons on being introverted. The 'Winning by the skin on your teeth but walking out without a scratch while your mech is ready to whomp in about ten minutes.' situation never happens, our heroes do spend loads of time injured, in the hospital or in severe emotional pain. The 'good guys who fight for right and decency' are a bunch of scheming, kniving old men with their own apocolyptic agenda. The mechs run on limited cables, when disconnected, they have 5 minutes MAX to get back. They use two joysticks, but most of it is done mentally. While this has been done before, now it works both ways, and the pilots feel pain. And why could a human mentally connect with a machine? While not answered in other anime, EVA answers it later in the series, but since we are SPOILER FREE, I can't tell you anything else besides theEVA's get their ass kicked a lot. The preview for EVA on the Nadesico DVD summed it up best. If they are of human purpose, they will fail. But if they are from God... You Cannot Defeat Them With that said, quickly, friends, go see NEON GENESIS EVANGELION! |
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