Flamezdudes said:
DJJ66 said:
Raioken18 said:
EVA is waaay overrated and was crappy even for it's time, on the other hand DBZ is awesome, for it's time it was groundbreaking and opened the path for anime like Naruto and Bleach.
Personally I like Naruto just a little bit more, but I get why people still love DBZ to death. It's fun ^_^
I'd say eva is worth it for the art and the battles. Everything else is pretty much meh. The characters are unlikeable, the story is nigh on impossible to follow unless you have a faq sheet on you, the main character is a whiny b**** and whenever the big robots aren't going at it the whole thing is a snore fest. You want good Mecha anime try gundam.
lol captcha: Vocal Minority.
Indeed those who dislike Eva seem to be the vocal minority where I come from.
Are you kidding me? Do you know how many anime's try to copy Evangelion? It was groundbreaking aswell and has almost a cult like following. And as for Gundam, apart from Gundam 00, I found Gundam to be very boring.
It should be left to a matter of opinion really. I think Eva should be atleast be watched once instead of relying on what others think. Even if I personally would argue that it is good.
Tbh, I watched the entire series and read all the manga and this is my opinion on it as an old fan and follower of the series. The story borders on nonsensical until you see the big picture, which isn't in it's favor by any scope of the imagination, most of the time you're left hanging on just what the hell is going on, which is a real shame because in the end of it the story is good, but it's just not presented to you as well as it should.
Character development apart from Asuka (which still sort of follows the checklists) is pretty much left to be imagined, Shinji is one of the single most annoying protagonists in any anime to date, (I get his story arch is that he's depressed and yata yata, well... so was Rin from Immortal blade, and her depression and lust for revenge was made interesting, so it's all a matter of story telling capability). Rei is just there for fanservice, sure she's this big plot point and all but I can't help but feeling that they really got all the millage out of her, being constantly beat up, torn apart, groped, left butt naked to the audience for no reason other than to match an anime nude quota.
The animation quality is unmatched, if anything that's the single reason I tolerate the show, it's awesome, the battles are good, the character design is excellent, the mechs and enemies are insanely well put together by a master animator as well as a master artist, and the battles have real tension going for them, the mechs, though powerful, are not mary sues, they can't take a beating or they and their drivers are screwed, and that I love about the show.
I all, it's decent. The animation and battles alone are worth watching or reading the manga, but the characters are bland and cliché. Asuka is the tsundere fanservice tough girl, Shinji's the underdog that doesn't believe in his own skills and is depressed, Rei is the quite goth chick fanservice.
Sure the show has been copied to hell and back and the formula sort of stuck and it could be debated that this show is one that either reinforced or established the clichés I'm accusing it of, but still, it's all to drab, and boring, and just downright confusing storytelling keep it from being truly great.
If you want good anime watch Akira, or Chihiro, hell Paprika or Elfen Leid (which is fanservice central, but still pretty good), or just read Immortal Blade which has a far more intricate storyline with much more interesting characters and artwork with a nice blend of mythological grounded on real life scenarios.
