goodbye evangelion. and thank you Hideaki Anno! we will always <3 you!
Evangelion is the greatest anime franchise ever built and one of the greatest works of fiction to ever be produced. its existence literally changed anime. this work means an incredible amount to so many people around the world including me. i love evangelion and it was the 3rd (technically second) anime i ever finished and until i discovered and completed the MONOGATARI series it was my fav anime for a long time. this is the end of the series and here are my thoughts on its finale.
im absoluetly rekd rn im sorry. im not so sure what to say... i have no idea what anyone else things of anything specific for this buuut before i start with the bad i wanna point something out.
ok so during the fight scene in shinjis memories on the set in the anti universe as well as the rei head, i am 100% positive that was on purpose and so was any of the stand out shitty cgi. and no this is not to say the parts in regular action sequences where stuff got a lil stiff or bland was on purpose. im not sure why its like that and was thinking to myself for a solid minute "did the budget get cut for the movie halfway thru and the rest of the movie will be like this shit, did they forget to apply animation or wutever to the cgi, did they animate this 10 years ago but didnt reanimate it with the rest of the show?" but no it def like that on purpose.
CONS
- i would have to say the biggest problem was myself and my expectations... regardless of the fact that i turnt off everything as soon as i got home from work, ate dinner and showered, re watched 3.33, waited for my fucking mom to go to bed so i could start this shit at 1258 AM as well as trying to tone down my excitement and the guarantee this would be good for months after viewing the trailer as well as getting high off of one last kiss... nuna that shit worked... No, this was not bad and i was entertained but i think i woulda rather this been dropped on us like an n2 mine with no buildup or anything, than have to wait for months after the announcement. ive been able to keep things neutral in the past for many movies and show (cant say video games cuz i never finish em LMAO) but this show is so important to me for many reasons but the fact that ive been waiting on this shit since the day i planned on watching the original evangelion series, had excitment building for months when the trailer dropped in january? and then when the announcement dropped mid july that we would be getting it in less than 2 months time... yeah it was destined to be impossible but no matter. future rewashes will most likely leave me more content, happy and satisfied.
- while the plot didnt ever feels disconnected, sometimes i think things lacked direction. will revisit this.
PROS
- BBAA (beautiful breath-taking amazing animation). in the past i have made the claim that the 3 kizumongatari movies have the best animation ever. period. while those movies have some funky cgi as well i think thrice upon a time has taken that trophy away from studio shaft. we will see though because my rewatch for the kizu movies will probably commence within the next week. but really this movies animation is nuts. i absolutely love the style and i think this will be a game changer. its shiny and smooth, but not so shiny and smooth as to be heartless, fake and manufactured like wonder egg priority. its saturated and grainy, but not so saturated and grainy as to feel straight out of the 80s 90s or 00s. at a certain point i literally thought to myself "these animators needa get out of the animations studio and into their own studios and paint fucking art meant for rich assholes walls" i mean goddam those rice terraces looked like they belonged in a frame on the wall of the fucking louvre.
- the ending. i literally know not a single souls take on the ending but i loooved it. since i first watched the original series just over a year ago, re watched it about 9 or 10 months ago and watched the rebuilds however long ago i have thought about which character i preferred more and which one i preferred to be with shinji. at first i liked rei, but then after my rewatch i realized how great of a character asuka is and how much i enjoyed her character. id never given much thought to mari and while i never disliked her... i didnt LOVE her. lets just say she was never my pfp on steam or discord aight. and while at this point im more of "i like rei, asuka, mari, misato and sakura equally" person i did not mind at all Anno "forcing" that relationship into exisctence and i quite enjoyed it. mari occupies more time in the limelight in 3 and especially 4 so we see more of her personality and its rather nice.
- Curios Rei. holy fuck this shit was the best on god. was sad when she turned into orange juice. also LMAO ANN0 FUCKING MADE LONG HAIR REI CANNON AAAA HAHAHAAAA!
some thing i still need reflection on
- the overall story. i didnt think it was bad. but probably because of my expectations it doesn't sit right with me.
- the soundtrack. umm this was good but not 2 or 3 good... i think. of what i remember. part of what makes many scenes in evangelion so good/emotional/memorable is its amazing score. if hedgehogs dilemma wasnt playing in the background of misatos and ritukos conversation it would not be that important or impactful. but instead its a solid scene that hits for me in both versions. and i dont think that happened here to the extent it does in the original series, eoE and some of the other rebuilds until maybe the end. there were several scenes that were on the cusp of being awzome and or making me emotional, but never pushed me over the edge.
my favorite part i think was the point where we see gendo become scared of shinji (idk thats just the best point and words i can use to describe where the portion starts) all the way up to the end. was a bit confusing at times but by far the most emotional and maybe even impactful part of this movie. cried when yui showed up and then again a bit before one last kissed started rolling.
the final installment (for now?) of what is (at this point cuz of rewash) my second fav ever (fav at the moment) anime was a little disappointing... which is disappointing, but it was still great. the animation and style was awzome and the action was very good. i rly hope in the future i can churn up more excitement out of this but this time around, im sorry to say it didnt hit as hard as i would have liked.
in the future i would LOOOVE to see more from evangelion and i would be ecstatic‼️ if they created a slice of life continuing where this series left and off and even gave it some run up. im kinda 50/50 with SoL but the reason for that is because the majority of SoL is mass produced, written by bakas and i havent watched a lot lol. but who knows whats next if there is even is A next
Sayonara evangelion. sorry to see you go. you mean a lot to me and i cant wait for what Anno does next.
