I just finished watching Evangelion with my mum and dad (well my dad sat in the room with us but refused to even look at the telly and instead scrolled football forums instead on his laptop). I basically told about every production quirk and lore detail all the time it was really fun. She liked it but didn't think it was that deep, and she said it repeated itself too much towards the end and she liked the beginning more (a very interesting opinion imo). She hated the last two TV episodes and also didn't seem to care about Kaworu that much.
She liked the elevator scene a lot, that was the standout part for her. I think the character she was the most invested in was Asuka (maybe because I am a bit like Asuka). Lastly she liked End of Evangelion but didn't love it that much, she thought it was just repeating what the show said and didn't think it was the most artistic film ever or anything. She liked the mech battle the most.
I think my mum likes fight scenes more than wierd abstract character moments and she doesn't really understand the intricate parts of animation. This is all very interesting to me tbh as someone super into anime since it shows what a normal person thinks of it.
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>>29145The show was a subversion of the standard mecha narrative that only shows it's true colors in the last 2 episodes of the series. Your mother holds the same opinion I did when I was young teenager watching it on toonami/adult swim. She hasn't been bombarded by the tropes and standards of the giant robot show enough to give a shit about this show. You think it's interesting because you are the target audience anno is telling to 'touch grass'. Your mom just thinks the giant robot cartoon fights is cool.
>>29145>>29145>d she liked the beginning more (a very interesting opinion imoYou mean the correct one. They ran out of budget and time half way through the show and that's why they eventually give up on animation and it turns into a slideshow with narration. That part is objectively kinda shit for that reason.
Sounds like your parents are not very smart but at least they watch with you. I never got mine to.
>>29163That shit is a myth made up in western circles because anime fans are too plebeian to understand deliberate simplicity for artistic reasons and still believe in retard shit such as objectivity in art.
>>29162It's not a subversion of the mecha genre at all… why do people say this. It's a great mecha show. But the second half is the best, I don't know why you'd try to debate this. It has the best action, the most exciting pacing and stakes and has great character moments.
>>29163The last two episodes are but 18-24 are like the best run of episodes in anime ever.
>>29203Oh, the giant robot anime where the giant robots aren’t actually giant robots and the pilot has a completely different attitude toward piloting said not-robot giant robot that ends in the destruction of the world isn’t a subversion of fucking EVERY OTHER GIANT ROBOT SHOW BEFORE IT??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A SUBVERSION IS??? HAVE YOU WATCHED ANY FUCKING GUNDAM SHOW??? GIGANTOR??? MAZINGER??? GETTER ROBO???
>>29218Have… you watched Gundam? Watched Ideon? Read Getter? Watch Ultra Seven? Like actually go and watch them if you liked Evangelion. It seems to me like you are baiting.
If Evangelion was a deconstruction it would be deconstructing like what? Early 70s mecha? It wasn't deconstructing Gundam or Getter Robo. Maybe Evangelion was a subversion but like serious mecha were the thing at the time. The real subversion / deconstruction of super robot mecha was Zambot 3.
>>29203I would say 16-24. Just incredible
>watching evangelion with your parents
I laughed then I cried
I watched Made in Abyss with my little sister
>>29292 (me)
also the TV ending is the best ending because the lore never mattered, Anno and Tsurumaki should have moved on >>29145I rewatched the show over Covid, and what struck me was just how good the directing was. Like you really don’t see this much basic goddamn film literacy in animation on either side of the pacific
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