When did you first see it, and what did you think?

Was it your first/only anime if you did see it?

inspired by LCL vs FCL.

  • DGen@piefed.zipEnglish
    21·
    8 hours ago

    OG series and the story retold both let me in a state of wtf. Its damn good - even though I do Like the first telling/ Timeline in the OG more.

    Theres a Lot open in the end that is unclear and makes you think. Its hard to follow fully through and its definetely nothing to rush in a bingewatch.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
    3·
    11 hours ago

    Aesthetics? 10/10

    The actual show? The most boring watch of my life.

  • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    It felt like they were trying to pack so much symbolism in that it all got too convoluted, and I rarely understood what exactly was going on. I could tell that they were trying to say something profound, but it felt like an artist trying to make a realistic painting with fingerpaint - the medium just didn’t suit the message. But maybe it was just over my head.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      11·
      9 hours ago

      You do understand it. That’s what mysticism is. An expression of what can’t be understood or be put into words. It’s not something you can talk about.

      And that’s what the ending is trying to express, the mystic experience of oneness with God, etc. To end suffering, misunderstanding, achieve perfection and harmony, yadda yadda

      Parmenides is another source for this sort of thing, outside of religion.

      I read it as a pastiche, personally. It’s like various mystic traditions and teachings, all slapped up together, hence the references to christianity, buddism, and kabbalah. It doesn’t coherently try to articulate any one particular variety of mysticism.

  • STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world
    21·
    9 hours ago

    I was always vaguely aware of it growing up, but I was never much of an anime watcher. Loved the theme song though, even out of the show’s context.

    I didn’t sit down and watch it until 2021, when I was in my mid-20s. Loved every minute of it. The only other anime I’d watched before that was Initial D, a few episodes of Speed Racer, and an old Gundam OVA, but I forget which one. Kaguya-Sama was coming out around then too, but I think I got around to that a bit later.

    Didn’t get around to End of Evangelion for another couple of years, when my local movie theater held a special screening. Now that was a fantastic experience… aside from watching the scene in the hospital room, projected on a 50-foot screen.

  • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 hours ago

    I saw it much later on. Originally dropped out after Eva 01 straightup graphically eats the one Angel; that was too much even for me. Later on I picked it up and finished it.

    In retrospect, it’s not my favorite. I was introduced to Gundam before Evangelion, and that ticked all the right boxes for what I enjoy in a Mecha show (less symbolism and weirdness, more grittiness and politics). But I still admire Evangelion for the qualities it has: Its characterization, its message(s), and for doing its unique thing - to say nothing of the raw value of the animation.

    Rebuild was decent. It went from a mild retread of Evangelion, to once again completely bonkers off the rails, to somehow wrapping around again to picking up similar positive themes Evangelion had.

  • razzazzika@lemmy.zip
    11·
    6 hours ago

    High school. Had a crush on Asuka, but I’ve always been partial to German girls.

    The plot however was confusing as fuck.

    Also I found myself steepling my fingers all the time while resting my elbows on my desk.

  • CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 hours ago

    I’ve been watching it with friends, and have seen about the first half of it now!

    I’m pretty surprised by how little messed up stuff has happened so far compared to what I’ve heard about it, but I’m bracing for that second half! In general, I’m liking it a lot and I see why it’s been so influential in anime since it came out

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
    6·
    14 hours ago

    Saw it in it’s original run. Blew my mind and I basically became the Evangelion guy for a cuple of years. I don’t think any other media influenced me more that than.

    Nowadays I can’t stand it. Have some nostalgia for it, but it’s like please stop.

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world
    81·
    15 hours ago

    Of course I’ve seen it. I was a teenager and it was the deepest thing I had ever seen. I don’t like the new ones.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    11 hours ago

    Which one? The first one I watched it when first aired and I watched the rebuild. The stuff in between I know I watched something, I’m not sure what.