Saw pictures of Rei everywhere, but I had no idea what she was from. Few years later, my older cousin buy's the platinum edition of NGE, so I borrow it and in an all-nighter (school night too) I was drawn into the world of Evangelion. I was so lost that the next day I was in a stupor. When I came back to my senses, I found out there was EoE, and went back into a stupor (this time it lasted a week). And so now i've moved onto the Rebuild series, but all in all, End Of Eva was the main draw.

Well, I first got into Evangelion after seeing the Funimation blog all hyped-up about the 2nd Rebuild movie. I watched the TV series and movie in 2 days. The end of EOE left me feeling empty inside and it took me a while to get over it; but I still enjoy Eva being one of my favorite anime to watch.

I had recently been introduced into the world of anime by a friend, I was hooked on it and was (am still) searching and searching for good animes, My friend recommended it to me and at first I was very cautious of it. After buying a Naruto Shippuden Dvd, I checked the little booklets that are in there and I happened to find Evangelion in there. Thanks to the little preview I decided to watch it and here i am, 26 episodes, 4 movies later addicted to Evangelion :).

I first got into Eva because it was first shown on TV back in 1995

saw it on TV when it was airring, was so confused at the time, then they were selling acton figures and everywhere was of eva, and i just fell in love with it

Had heard about it for years on the Interwebz; saw a few minutes of an episode on Adult Swim; was instantly convinced to shell out for a box set; started watching the series; fell in love with it by around episode 4; never looked back since.

I think I st- er, borrowed my brother's copies of the first two DVDs when I was sick from school back in '09. I proceeded to watch up to episodde 20 on youtube, and I still haven't finished yet. Dx

It's never too late to finish, just watch the last 6 eps (although be sure to find the director's cut versions) and finish with EOE.

I first fell in love with Neon Genesis Evangelion when I was but a wee lad on a road trip with my family somewhere. We drove though this dying town somewhere and lost in some neighborhood when I locked on to some eyes. Red Eyes. After that I had dreams of this girl with red eyes and blue hair. Some time after I road my bike to the library one fine day to pick up some random Anime, and I saw Death and Rebirth. Saw them same red eyes and took it home with me and became the Eva Fan I am today.

It was an impulse buy for me. I was at a fleamarket buying bootleg episodes of Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon sometime in the mid 90s when episodes past a certain point weren't available here yet and I saw some bootleg copies of Evangelion. Bootlegs cost me 25 dollars for 3 tapes each with 3 horrible quality episodes on it done with some really bad subtitles. I decided to give it a try and picked up the first 3 episodes along with a Dragonball Z android saga tape and a Sailor Moon S tape. I fell in love and it's been an obsession ever since.

Watched it as it aired in Japan, on satellite TV here in the US. I maybe understood every fifth word; it was in the days when I only knew fantard Japanese.

The best part? Somehow missing episodes 25 and 26 as they aired, and couldn't find them elsewhere. Fast forward to a year later, when the only reasonable (read: not becoming homeless from importing laserdiscs) choice I had was to buy them on VHS. Dubbed in Cantonese.

And you thought you disliked episodes 25 and 26.
(Actually, I was pretty okay with it. I have a pretty high tolerance for Anno trolling.)

I'd heard about it a lot, but didn't get the opportunity to watch it until I was recovering from back surgery. I incurred subsequent surgeries (staph infections will do that to you during a moist summer...) and through that hellish period I managed to watch the entire series including the movies.

And I think EoE contributed to some fever dreams...

The way I first got into Eva was through Toonami, I think. I remember there was a time they showed the first episode back when they were showing episodes from random anime titles. (On Wikipedia the closest I could find to this was "Giant Robot Week", which happened during the last week of February 2003.) I believe I had heard of Evangelion before then, but I'm not sure where...

Anyway, a while after I saw the first episode on Toonami I got the Platinum Collection of the anime and I've been hooked since.

I remember seeing it on adult swim or something when I was younger and now I just finally got around to watching it. I have now become an addict.

I watched Asuka's battle against the MP EVAS and it was really cool and I watched it many times with zero understanding. One day, after watching it one more time I decided to watch the first episode of NGE and I got hoocked

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I got into eva because I heard cruel angel's thesis and I couldn't get it out of my head! I watched the first episode on the internet and then I was hooked. I watched the whole show within 2 weeks and eventually watched EoE and Death and Rebirth. Ever since then I have been collecting lots of eva stuff. I also think about it a lot.

I really dont like mecha at all, i prefer martial arts, hand to hand combat. But i soon found this to be TOTALLY irrelevant with eva.

I saw an AMV named Odno i to zhe, i was a Ramms+ein FREAK, LONG before i knew of Eva, so of course i liked it.

I saw the depressing and tragic psychological aspect. I loved the characters just for their design. (thats Yoshiyuki Sadamoto for ya)

I decided to try somthing new so i watched DEATH(true2) cause it was a recap. I was completely unable to refrain from watching the anime. I was dissapointed as hell from the ending, i then found out about EOE, i watched it.

Every thought, saying, moral, ideal and way of life i knew of before was utterly shattered.

Eva completely tore my mind apart and as i built it back up. I saw the existence of a new me.

Well it all started on a dusty dry Monday Night in Australia.

I was grooming my kangaroo's watching The Biggest Loser, I think. When I panned channels past ABC2. I caught my first glimpse of Death Note. After watching episode 2, I was intrigued. I needed to learn more about "Anime". And so I went to the internet.

After doing a bit of research (read: reading Top Anime of All Time lists) one name kept popping up. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Perhaps it was fate, but flipping through the TV Guide I saw that End of Evangelion was scheduled to air late night on SBS.. I can't remember when >_>

After watching it, I was floored. It hit me like a truck. The pure misery of the whole thing, the confusion, the panic, the self loathing and screaming, it was all what I had been looking for. I just didn't know it until then.

So time went on. I eventually ordered the Platinum Set for myself, and had myself a little Eva marathon. It impressed me even more, everything was completely new to me. Each episode was better than the last. Then I got to episode 26... and killed a few children.

Yada yada, found Evageeks eventually, had my mind blown by just how much I had actually missed in this show, re-watched it about once a week for lord knows how long, eventually ordered a Region 1 copy of End of Evangelion off Amazon for about 80 bucks including postage, got a hold of 1.11 and 2.22, still buying the manga as we speak, and here I am today!

Evangelion ruined my life. It got me addicted to Anime! I'm glad I found it though. I'm still nagging everyone I know to watch it, and I've got a few anime disbelievers hooked on it as well. And time goes on...

I was starting with Anime.

A friend of mine told me about the Series.

I started looking for images and information then I watched the complete show.

And from that moment Evangelion has been my favorite Anime.

My dad rented a disk for me back when I was six because I loved giant robot shows