No.859377
I recently watched the series. have not seen the movies yet.
What is the appeal to this show?
It is a mediocre mecha anime. The animation sucks, mostly shot reverse shots, still images, and any actual animation or movement is not animated well.The conspiracy stuff at the start of the 3rd arc really got me hooked, but Gainax dropped the ball big time with the ending. It is basically a community college 1st year philosophy class for retards.
It blows me away that this is show is held to such high regards.
People say it's deep and I can see why they think that, it is like one of those chalk drawn optical illusion drawings, looks really deep at first glance, but when you get close you realize it is only as deep as the chalk dust on the surface.
No.859379
The first eight episodes are still good.
No.859380
No.859382
>>859380
Makes sense that OP wouldn't get the appeal then.
No.859383
>>859377
>but Gainax dropped the ball big time with the ending. It is basically a community college 1st year philosophy class for retards.
I like it because my IQ is above room temperature. The original ending was fantastic and fuck all the idiots like you who made them go back and re-make the ending.
バカ。
No.859397
>The animation sucks, mostly shot reverse shots, still images, and any actual animation or movement is not animated well
If you didn't actually watch anything except some clips of the last two episodes and "lol, muh static elevator shot!" meme, keep your fucking mouth shut. Most of the series was animated above-average for the time, and it still stands up today.
No.859430
"I just finished Evangelion" threads are always bad but they're especially bad when you haven't even seen EOE yet.
No.859437
>>859377
>have not seen the movie
Found your problem.
No.859440
>>859377
It's because they like bullying shinji and he deserves it
No.859441
>>859430
They always sound like bait.
No.859442
>>859441
Especially when the OP has, "I didn't watch the crowning achievement of the series, the storyboards of which they even put in the episode 24 preview because I'm just so flabbergasted at the fact that the story doesn't feel complete!"
No.859455
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Because the intro is that mesmerizing
No.859507
>>859455
It doesn't work as a bait-and-switch when you can tell it's a remix from the thumbnail.
But seriously, it's not bad.
No.859584
>>859377
>Why do people like Neon Genesis Evangelion?
The perfect case of "I'm 14 years old, and this is deep" combined with pretty well choreographed fights and waifubaiting
also fujoshit about karl's holy angelic cock of longitude
No.859590
>>859584
>Hey guys, I heard hating on Eva was the cool thing to do. It's only liked because "waifubait"(?) and fujoshi and everything else I'm just too adult to care about. Am I a true /a/non yet?
No.859690
>>859380
Is that why the main protagonist fails everybody, like a little bitch instead of manning up?
No.859695
I KNOW, I KNOW I'VE LET YOU DOWN
No.859701
>>859695
I'VE BEEN A FOOL TO MYSELF
No.859707
>>859701
I THOUGHT THAT I COULD LIVE FOR NO ONE ELSE.
No.859708
>>859707
BUT NOW, THROUGHT BY ALL THE HURT AND PAIN
No.859720
>>859455
>When a nu-metal rapper has better taste than half the anons on this board
No.859915
>>859584
>I've actually read that particular doujin
And it's FUCKING HILARIOUS.
>>859690
When you were 14 you were still wetting the bed, so you're not one to talk.
No.864917
Because at the time it was groundbreaking in that 'this changes the game' kind of way. Similar to Watchmen in comics or Demon's Souls in videogames. Its something that love it or hate it was a design shift from the norms of the time that caused a paradigm shift in its genre or medium.
It reached a point where studios would only finance something in the style of Eva and thats where shows like RahXephon came from. Eventually you had developers make shows as semi comedic throwbacks to 80's mecha like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan specifically listing their reason for creating it as "Eva changed everything forever and now everything wants to be Eva so we made something to be the exact opposite"
Its not deep its expressive. While things like Cowboy Bebop have layers of themes and semiotics intentionally inserted for the thoughtful viewer to find Evangelion wears all its 'subtext' on its sleeve and that makes it feel more 'important' so to speak. Its like when videogames started putting out stuff on consoles like Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid that treated the audience like adults and not children. Eva isn't extremely deep or nuanced. But its designed simply not to treat you like an idiot in a time when anime was either formulaic trash or pandering merchandise exercises that treated the viewer like an infant needing time filling distraction.
Its not the best thing ever but it does what it was intended to do.
No.864933
>>859377
I disagree. The animations are great and I can not see where you get the "shot, reverse shot, still images" thing from. The movement of the mechs is gorgeous, and coupled with the sound design it it honestly a good viewing experience.
The design of the UI elements in the control room is a super comfy mix of old-school analog and sci-fi holograms, so I don't mind the repetitive shots of that.
The plot overall starts out thin with something that is most likely meant to be boring.
"Hey, we need someone to pilot this super robot."
"Let's pick that kid"
"And here is his harem too!"
But then it takes a different turn as more sinister elements are revealed. The mid-way point is really interesting, as the focus shifts from exposition of characters, EVAs and organizations, to the entire background elements that have been going on the entire time.
The ending really depends on what ending you pick. I honestly like the absolute original more than End of Evangelion. Instead of giving the viewer some fancy animations about how humanity was killed combined into one, and then revived by shinji finally growing up, it shows how shinji finally grows up and what causes him to do so. It is clear that they ran out of budget towards the end of the original, but what they created was a much better and shorter version of the ending in EoE.
>People say it's deep and I can see why they think that, it is like one of those chalk drawn optical illusion drawings, looks really deep at first glance, but when you get close you realize it is only as deep as the chalk dust on the surface.
This is a gross simplification, and I am not sure you understand the plot at all. Would you mind providing a summary of your understanding of it so I can point out in what way you are actually wrong, instead of hiding behind a fancy metaphor?
>>859440
Shinji deserves to be bullied. All throughout the show he is a little bitch.
>>859720
Don't start this, anon.
No.864944
>>859377
>and any actual animation or movement is not animated well.
Objectively wrong. Many of the action sequences are absolutely masterful and leagues above anything that had been seen up to that point. They carry weight and impact and display destruction in excruciating detail. The ending is a mess because Anno went off the rails, but you absolutely cannot deny that Eva raised the bar for mecha action, unless you're some dumb pleb who only started watching anime in the past few years and doesn't know about the trends and level of quality of the period Eva was made in.
No.864945
I like Shinji. Say something rude to me.
No.864948
>>864945
As expected of a little sissy Shinjifag. You enjoy getting bullied.
No.864956
>>864949
Every single point that poster made is easily turned around.
>son of high ranking paramilitary officer, who has connections to the globalist elite, and a goddamn robot
<doesn't "own" a fucking robot, SEELE completely fucks over his father like the puppet he was
<only ever gets kissed by one woman who only does it to get him to move his fucking ass and pilot a robot
>pilots humanity's greatest weapon
<Close to death in nearly every fight because he manages to fuck up so badly
>achieved highest sync ratio
<compared to a sociopath on her period and a literal one of a thousand clone
>no one ever forces his decisions, like whether to kill another pilot, or whether to quit nerv or not
<cries like an autist when people make some robot do things he doesn't like because he is too much of a fag to do so himself
>ascended to godhood and made everyone on Earth achieve personal happiness
<Except his mother, whom he entombed on a hyperbolic trajectory out of the solar system, his "gf", who hates him because he didn't let her connect with her mother in death, and his pseudo mother, who died after seeing Shinji at his absolute lowest point possible
>studious, skilled musicioan and artisan of the culinary arts
<who creates an alternate version of earth as his personal heaven that is a direct copy of all the worst tropes of shitty high school harem mangas
>manages to be a better housewife than the tree main girls combined
<implying that Rei isn't the best housewife because she literally was a housewife
>has a professional sense of sytle, while still maintaining comfort for everyday activities
<and doesn't realize that he has to improve his body too to fit his style
>seduces angles
<and can't cum once inside
>is a hedgehog
<and decides to get close to people anyways, despite hurting him and anyone around him
No.864963
>>864956
Its already turned around, you just flipped it back to normal, you fucking genius.
No.864966
Which do you think is cuter?
No.864973
What's funniest to me is that when Shinji does man the fuck up, get in the robot, etc, in Rebuild, it's shown that he becomes so gung-ho HE accidentally ends the world instead of his father. When he does what the more ignorant viewers want and stops "being a little bitch" (or rather, acting line a normal fucking kid his age when presented with that level of responsibility) he ends up predictably fucking up and killing almost everyone.
Twice.
Because, shocker, he's easily manipulated, emotionally underdeveloped, and variably either madly in love or completly high on the premise of 'saving the world' that he doesn't stop to think that, hey, this thing all his other friends are saying "DON'T TOUCH THAT" shouldn't be touched. But hey, backing down would be a bitch move, so let's go ahead and cause another Impact, why the fuck not. And no one seems to get that that is the point of Evangelion: Both the first run of it and Rebuild are criticisms of the genre from different directions.
Stick a kid in a giant robot and say "Hey, you are solely responsible for the lives of everyone in this city. And the planet, too!" means you get a blubbering, ineffectual idiot who can't handle it, because he's FOURTEEN YEARS OLD and doesn't know how to deal with pressure.
Alternatively, take the same kid, give him a hero/savior complex through his friends and a girlfriend, and now he takes massive risks he really shouldn't, ignores the advice of authority figures who know better and his friends, and happily mashes the "END THE FUCKING WORLD" button like it's going out of style because "muh waifu" or "I'M THE HERO YEAH/FUCK THE SYSTEM" because teenagers are goddamn sociopaths who only care about what makes them feel good.
In the end the same folks who complain about the 2deep4u of the show make me as confused as the folks who are confused by Dwarf Fortress, FLCL, Lord of the Flies, etc and have the intellectual space of the average CinemaSins viewer.
Not that it's a good or particularily smart show, being honest and fair. Just that it's so shallow and simple to interpret it's mindboggling that people think it has the space to actually be pretentious or 'hiding behind obscurity'. One might as well say that Pink Floyd or System Of A Down are hard to understand as well.
No.864992
>>859690
He didn't say it's about successfully growing up.
No.865016
>>859377
The intended audience is 15 years old, around that age you start to be able to better understand patterns, with understanding patterns your imagination just fires up like never before, it's like in Super Mario 3 when you see the overmap, and then you see the overmap was just one of many overmaps, the world just instantaneously becomes much bigger. If you are 15 years old and watch Evangelion, you start seeing a bunch of patterns and it expands your world, expanding one's world is captivating.
No.865019
>>864897
Why did you bump this shitty weeks old thread with this comment? Now we have to continue this farce of people responding to an OP who was already bullied for his bad opinions for at least a couple more days.
No.865050
>>864992
In the end, Shinji does successfully grow up. That's what the end of episode 26 is about. Shinji becoming an adult.
No.865051
>>865050
What Anno is saying is that becoming an adult isn't about succeeding at your job, in this instance being an Eva pilot, or anything like that. It's not about scoring with that chick you have the hots for. It's not about doing what your father wants you to do. It's not about coming to terms with the world as it is. BECOMING AN ADULT IS ABOUT BECOMING YOURSELF. THAT'S SHINJI'S REVELATION: "I AM ME." THAT'S REALLY ALL IT IS. IT'S ALL ABOUT BECOMING WHAT YOU ARE. There is nothing else.
No.865064
>>864963
You underestimate the power of autism.
>>865051
This is the first time I have seen an anon who actually understands the plot.
No.865113
>>859380
Growing up to have no penis. Shinji is a giant vagina. Also no one in the show is likable aside from Pen-Pen. Animation is good, though.
No.865114
>>865051
Anno thinks Eva sucks too you fucking tard.
No.865116
>>865114
This level of bait should be outlawed.
No.865141
>>859380
Bildungsroman is such a terrible genre. Only pseudo-intellectual Plebs like it.
This is also why K-On! will always be better than K-On!!
>>859377
Obvious bait thread is obvious.
No.865182
>>859720
>nu metal rapper
Who is that guy?
No.865184
>>865182
Jut guessing here, Papa Roach maybe?
No.865235
>>865182
Limp Bizkit the only evidence is that a couple years ago he showed off a Rei figure on a live stream
No.865243
My experience with why people "liked it" was that a lot of them saw it as atheist message and shitting in Christianity, despite the creators have on record saying many times it has nothing to do with that and thought the cross shaped explosions just looked cool. It was really big with edge lords and the goth/emo/punk/ whatever the fuck wearing all black was called at that time, but seemed to be the perfect case of reading too much into things.
>It is basically a community college 1st year philosophy class for retards.
Basically this too, this was also the 90s so it was "different" at the time. At least to oversea fans since the Internet was still too technical for most people to figure out.
No.865249
>>865243
It was different at the time for the Japanese, too.
No.865259
>>865249
So I heard, still, there was one big difference. Japanese had context about all the big Super Robot genre it was taking a shitting on, aka "deconstruction". Overseas, it must have seen like completely random shit outside of the few fans of series like Voltron, or Robotech if you really want to stretch it. Imagine this being your first chinese cartoon you ever where introduced too. I remember this being the case for a lot of people. I suspect it did more damage then good.
No.865294
>>865235
Limp Bizkit is a band, you dolt.
No.865315
>>865259
The idea that you can't understand NGE if you aren't well-versed in the mecha genre and so can see its deconstruction elements reeks of pompous elitism. Aside from that, it's completely off-base. There are few deconstruction elements in NGE (aside from the obvious: piloting a giant robot that makes you feel its pain and having to risk your life fighting alien abominations, when you're a young confused teenager, is probably going to suck badly), and very few of them are even the point of the series. Anno wouldn't have bothered writing a story at all if the only "point" was satire. Deconstruction is a term used to describe something that bucks its genre, after the fact; it's never a GOAL.
No.865350
Long time ago i read in a blog that the clap/congratulation scene in the end is a rip-off from a very old manga (60-70). I don't remenber the name. But no one confirmed this since the manga is not available. Just saying.
No.865559
>>865315
Well, going into it without knowing what super giant robotos are ended up having people think it was an allegory to Christianity bashing. Which was not the case at all. I can only guess why Japs hold it so firm but all I what I'm getting at is, being a Japanese creation with Japs in mind first, bucking a familiar genre would resonate better with them. Few other points like, Anno being on all sorts of crazy pills/dead mom, and probably shouldn't have even been working, defiantly added to it. Since the end result was a public display of a "crazy" persons' depression, so it had that novelty. I swear there was an interview where he said he can't even get back into that mind set, and doesn't even remember what he was thinking at the time. More reason not to buy any of the newer stuff.
>The 90s back when bands like Limp Bizkit where king. With songs like.
<Sick of It All
<Nobody Loves Me
<Nobody Like You
Yeah, NGE came out at just the right time.
No.865566
>>859377
>Why do people like Neon Genesis Evangelion?
I don't like it. I love it.
No.865568
>>865566
but why do you love it as appose to just liking it?
No.865569
>>865559
But Anno was one of "us". And by us I mean shut in otakus or weebs, borderline autistic social outcasts. I can relate to his work and in some ways, it helped me coming out of the shell I was living in.
>>865568
Hard to explain. I like it when it's not raining outside, but love it when then sun shines. Love is a stronger feeling than liking something/someone. I like my hypothetical friends, but I love my siblings.
No.865625
>>865568
No him, but I'll post seriously in an NGE thread yeah I know, crazy, right?. I like NGE mostly because of the designs, animation atmosphere and mood changes; most criticism about NGE are about the fanbase thinking it's 2deep4u, anyway.
The lesson here is that overrated isn't the same as bad.
No.865713
>>865559
>having people think it was an allegory to Christianity bashing
That's completely absurd. Nobody thought that. I didn't think that. Most people know that not everything is some kind of allegory or deep metaphor. It's an anime, not propaganda.
You don't have to relate to what the author was thinking or feeling to relate to the characters. Does knowing that Stephen King was coked out of his mind when he wrote parts of IT change your ability to feel for the characters who are being hunted to the death by an eldritch abomination that sometimes appears as a clown? No. In fact, I would posit that it adds NOTHING to your enjoyment of the plot. Maybe it's possible or even plausible that he couldn't have come up with that horrifying shit without the drugs, but it doesn't matter. It's just a pointless entry in the "trivia" section of the book's wikipedia page.
Maybe the Nips only liked it for those reasons (I can't guess at their cultural norms on these matters), but it certainly wasn't that way for the West. And NGE wasn't targeted to edgy teenagers in the West, either. Most of the audience would have at least have been old enough to have some passing familiarity with Gundam or the like. All this was memes made a decade after it first aired, being essentially revisionist history.
No.865883
>american weeb in the 90s: 'respect my lifestyle, manga is an artform, just check how complex and deep NGE is'
<american weeb in 2018: 'all I care about is loli and traps, I don't get why people used to worship NGE'
The issue is that america is too pozzed to build on solid foundations and grow. Every new generation seeks to undermine the previous' achievements, hence going nowhere.
No.865885
>>865559
>think it was an allegory to Christianity bashing
Nope, that's called the Megami Tensei series. God striking down civilization for sin is a perfectly acceptable outcome for Christians.
No.865903
>>865885
Badly mangled-up Kabbalah has nothing to do with Christianity.
No.866557
>Great soundtrack and visuals
>Good animation
>Subversion of mecha
>Complete mindfuck later on
>Still one of the best anime for character studies (even though there are far better works outside of anime)
>The angel fights are different each time, it doesn't get dull
>Good pacing, doesn't really get old
>Entry level deepness, still head and shoulders above most other anime
>Many people who watched it were the target audience, perma virgin autist shut ins so it appealed extra to them
Its not perfect but its not hard to see why so many love Evangelion. The budget running out towards the end is a completely valid complaint but they even make that work with the rough sketches and still images.
No.866736
>>866557
What I like best about the last two episodes is that it's basically 100% the writing and voice acting shining through, because there is so little animation. It's like the ultimate thought experiment, "Is your favorite piece of media well-written enough that it would still be good even if it were all still-frames and voice-overs?" Nowadays, with big-budget blockbuster movies and so much emphasis on graphics in all media, it's more telling than it ever has been.
No.867130
>>865559
Kabbalah with a seasoning of hinduism.
No.868777
>>866736
>big-budget blockbuster movies and so much emphasis on graphics in all media
There's a medium in which graphics don't matter, it's called a book.
No.868784
>>868777
Bullshit, the choice of paper color, quality, font type and ink color all matter. That's why ebooks are all universally shit.
No.868828
>>868777
Ask anyone in the industry (e-books included) what's the most important part of a book, and they'll all tell you the same thing: the cover. Authors pay thousands of dollars to professionals who custom make covers that are designed to do one thing only, and that's to psychologically manipulate someone who sees it into making a purchase. People browse bookstore and e-book sites and look at dozens or hundreds of titles, often seeing each one for less than a second. The only thing that will convince them to buy is a cover that grabs their attention (and for sake of argument, the author's name, if they are a celebrity, is considered part of this). Books, as with all else, have now become clickbait.
The actual content of the book is MEANINGLESS. A book without a cover will not sell a single copy, even if it's the best book in the world. Everyone will just pass it by and grab the one that looks prettiest.
No.868833
>>868828
>best seller of the past millennia
>just had a black cover and a small title
>not even the author was listed
No.868845
The manga is better. The manga will always be better. Anno knows this and secretly nurses his grudge that no one got his art house self-referential garbage bird-flip to the fanbase with End of Eva. This is why Anno will never make the last remake movie of that failed re-imagining with CG evas.
The manga, anon. Read the manga. It's like the anime but better, without filler, and makes Shinji a relatable and more importantly properly written character.
No.868852
>>868833
Pedantry doesn't suit you. And it still doesn't make me wrong.
No.874164
>>868845
The only good thing about the manga was the first half or so.
No.874170
>>874164
From a technical point of view the whole mango is very well executed. The facial expressions, the lighting, the panel arrangement, the use of sounds etc.
There are very few examples of quality, but >>868845 managed to provide one by chance. And it's not obvious at first glance either. Look at the last panel in the last pic. You now realize that Shinji's mouth looks like someone dropped a flake of skin on the page.
Other than those few instances it's a very nice read.
No.874461
Because it's good, you dingus.
I'm tired of seeing this thread in the catalog, reminding me that there's faggots trying to be such pretentious contrarians on /a/.
No.876787
I personally prefer the manga version of the story since it had better sequence of events, explained characters better, and had a much more fulfilling epilogue than both the series and End of Evangelion. Plus, they gave Rei far more depth and better explain her "rebirths."
The series was intriguing and had good interactions among the characters.
I will add that I enjoy the Rebuild movies despite the heavy criticisms from fans of the original series.
No.876790
Marathoned Secret of Blue Water and NGE while high as fuck this summer shit was dope.
No.876792
>>876790
It's a very enjoyable series that holds strong even today. It's not the best thing ever but it's also not so overrated as some people say.
It was also fun to comeback to the series after so many years. I was in my early teens when it came out and identified with it's teen characters. Now I could understand more of the older characters perspective.
No.877028
>>876792
How old you are when you watch it definitely affects how you feel about it. I was in my late teens and early 20's, so while I empathized a lot with the pilots, it was mostly out of a sense of lost nostalgia for my own lonely teenhood. If I had to pick anyone to "identify" with, it was probably Misato. Felt like I wanted to help Shinji and Asuka succeed, but didn't know how. Don't know how to motivate anyone except with sex, because sex is the only way anyone has ever really valued me. Except they didn't anyway.
Now that I'm almost 15 years older, I'm definitely understanding Gendo a lot more, too. Despite myself and how much I hated my own father, I fucking get it now. He was hurting just as much this entire time. He and Shinji were the same. I never saw that before because I was too busy thinking of him as an antagonist.
No.880030
>>859377
I liked the cosmic horror elements of it
No.880083
>>877028
>identify with the 3DPD slut
>Don't know how to motivate anyone except with sex, because sex is the only way anyone has ever really valued me
What are you doing here, normalcattle?
No.882358
NETFLIX WILL BE STREAMING NEON GENESIS EVANGELION STARTING SPRING OF 2019
ALL 26 EPISODES OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES, PLUS END OF EVANGELION MOVIE AND DEATH AND REBIRTH
The series hasn't been publicly available in the west for over ten fucking years.
https://archive.fo/SbeCq
No.882389
>>882358
I wish Evangelion could be sealed in concrete and dumped in the trench. Not because it's bad, I like it and enjoyed watching it and discussing it. For maybe five years. We don't need a new generation of Eva fans. For the love of god children of the future please just watch and talk about something else and save me from this eternal hell of "get in the robot!" jokes and waifu debates. This is a decent Eva thread and even this makes me nauseous.
Could you at least possibly watch Ultraman first before you start writing your goddamn thesis?
No.882398
>>882358
>The series hasn't been publicly available in the west for over ten fucking years.
I was going to complain about making it available again but if even that didn't stop the horrible, stupid takes from ignorant westerners then nothing will.
No.882399
>>882389
>waifu debates
It never ends, anon.
It never ends.
No.882407
>>882399
>relative timestamps
Worse than 3DPD.
No.882438
>>882398
Think of the plug-suits, anon. Think of the plug suits!
No.882445
>>882438
>think of the cosplay sluts!
No.882448
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>882389
Yeah, I'm tired of these stupid jokes that don't even make any sense. Newfags need to actually watch shows instead of being swept up by hype and memes to develop their opinions and talking points for them.
>Could you at least possibly watch Ultraman first before you start writing your goddamn thesis?
What's Ultraman? You mean this?
No.882462
>>882438
>No tits
>No ass
>Haggard face buried by make-up
>Eyeliner that doesn't make sense
Great! Can't wait for all the internet sluts to go around vapidly posing and growing their vain egos even moreso.
No.882493
Imagine wasting millions in a mecha anime that absolutely could not go wrong but ended up being so mediocre and cringey due to pointless religious references the writer wanted added to make the show look deeper than it actually was that you had to animate the later episodes using crayons due to not earning back one cent of your inversion.
No.882495
>>865883
>implying making a shit mecha anime is an achievement
>>866557
Nice meme, anon.
No.882500
>>859383
>original ending
They ran out of money so they spliced old scenes together with the same stock trippy sky effect from SEL, ignored all the NERV pilot points, and wrapped it all up by making it that the entire world of Evangelion was just a projection of Shinji's psyche.
End Of Eva is what they wanted to do from the start.
No.882501
>>882493
Nice brainlet impression.
No.882503
>>882500
>They ran out of money
Nice Reddit meme.
>>882493
>hurr why was it not just a generic mecha
It would be shit then
No.882507
>>880083
>>882368
>Sad jealous virgin kids get mad at me because I managed to dodge wizardhood
Okay.jpg
>>882358
>The series hasn't been publicly available in the west for over ten fucking years
I don't understand this because anyone could have just downloaded it or bought the DVDs or whatever. "Nobody can watch this series if it's not on TV" hasn't been true since back when NGE originally aired. Even in the early 2000's you could get bootleg fansubs of popular anime if you knew the right people. The only thing different here is that it's very probable that — as they're streaming and thus not required to fit into a time-slot — they will all be the Director's Cut versions of the episodes.
That said, I don't think there will really be any new fans of this. Any kiddies who got into the franchise via the Rebuild movies won't get past the first episode since they'll assume it's just a less-flashy version of the films and really long because of filler. People who were going to watch it because they are okay with watching older series likely already would have checked if off their backlog years ago; it's on nearly everyone's list of anime you should watch.
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) No.882510
>>882507
There's a massive horde of people who will watch something solely if it's convenient. They don't torrent or ship dvds, they'll barely even illegally stream. But they'll watch Netflix, and in many cases simply because it's on Netflix. These are the worst kind of fans alive, being the anime equivalent of the "whatever's on TV between 5 and 9" crowd.
No.882572
>>882507
>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Well deserved.
No.882736
1. It was novel for its time. The animation is certainly better than the slideshows that are shat out today.
2. Otakus, especially Japanese ones, can relate to the themes of depression and emotionally absent parents.
No.882762
No.883245
>>883228
>old shitty dub gets replaced by new shitty dub
No.883247
>>865182
Some red hat linux programmer.
No.883248
>>883228
I’ve only seen a handful of dubs that weren’t utter garbage but I’ll probably check this out out of curiosity at least.
No.883251
>>883228
>Twitter source
>Twitter post has no verifiable link
Opinion discarded.
No.883315
>>883251
>Amanda Winn Lee
>the original dub voice for Rei
>ADR director, script writer, and producer for the dub of End of Evangelion and Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
>not a reliable source
You're making me feel old, kid.
No.883355
>>883315
Ah, I take it back then.
No.884557
>>883315
Nigger, I was watching Evangelion before you were born.
No.884611
>>883315
I genuinely can't believe you're saying AWL is a reliable source, given how much misinformation can be attributed to her.