Type: Anime & Movie Version
Status: Anime - Complete (26 episodes and a movie) Movie - Ongoing
Premise: After a cataclysmic event known as 2nd impact melted Antarctica and shifted the worlds axis, flooding kills half of the earths population. Humanity has taken 15 years to reorganized and now have restored itself to the dominant species on the planet once more. But the truth is that 2nd impact was not a natural occurrence, it was in reality humanities first contact with another form of life; they were named Angels. Angels are titanic beings of unimaginable destructive power and threaten the remaining population with total extinction, the only way humanity has to fight back is the organisation known as N.E.R.V. and their weapons known as the E.V.A. which are gigantic fighting robots developed after 2nd impact. Shinji Ikari a 14 year old student is selected to pilot the first fully functional E.V.A. in the defense of Tokyo-3 one of the last strongholds of humanity and the headquarters of N.E.R.V.
Thoughts: Now my opinion varies dramatically depending on which version you ask me about; the anime was decent but suffered from enormous plot holes and completely ridiculous mentality to the writing. The movies were short and to the point, retelling the majority of what you received in the anime but removing many of the things that made little sense; they stressed different points in the movies which shifts the overall tone between the two versions and to me resulted in a better piece of storytelling.
Prose: Nice old school anime with the hand drawn animation and good voice acting. The movie contains more CG than the anime but in vary well chosen moments so as not to distract from the story.
Cons: The anime had enormous plot holes and a truly crap-tastic ending originally which was somewhat fixed by "The End of Evangelion" which is an hour and a half movie made to replace the last 2 episodes.
-Notes: Fully dubbed. 2 of the 4 movies planned have been released but the final 2 which were scheduled for a 2008 release were "slightly delayed" to a 2012 release instead. I watched the anime than the movie so it may be that I am filling in some blank areas of the movie with the good parts of the anime but in my opinion the movies are BY FAR better than the anime. While the movies are shorter than the anime they managed to cut most of the confusing/useless bits off of the anime and stream line it into a more functional version with the movies; they also stress some different plot devices in the movie which changes the tone and makes for a clearer series of events between the characters which also helps understanding. If given the option I would suggest watching the movies first before the anime, also when watching the anime I would recommend the alternate ending instead of the original episodes 25 and 26.
Anime - 7.5/10 Movies - 8.5/10 (Plot holes large enough to drive gigantic fighting robots through)
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