Other anime like NGE or Nadia
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Other anime like NGE or Nadia
What are some other anime, preferably retro [just because I enjoy the aesthetic and the imperfect art and presentation lends to the creepy factor], that are comparable to Neon Genesis or Nadia Secret of Blue Water? Specifically
-Starting with a relatively light or normal tone, but slowly revealing itself to be nightmarish and dark
-Alternate histories, ancient species, eldritch abominations, horrifying technology
-Sick action from time to time
-Just fuckin godlike music
-A mild horror vibe, but not strictly horror [the genre is so repetitive even when it's good]
-Starting with a relatively light or normal tone, but slowly revealing itself to be nightmarish and dark
-Alternate histories, ancient species, eldritch abominations, horrifying technology
-Sick action from time to time
-Just fuckin godlike music
-A mild horror vibe, but not strictly horror [the genre is so repetitive even when it's good]
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
I've heard that Serial Experiments Lain fits the bill there, but I haven't watched it myself, so I can't say for certain; I know I've seen some more that have these characteristics, but I'm drawing a complete blank on them right now
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
Oh fuck yeah Lain is awesome! Final Fantasy VII and Xenoblade Chronicles fit here as well, even though they're games. Thanks for humoring my incessant begging for weird, specific Japanese media
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
Starts dark, and just gets darker: Texhnolyze.
Not so dark, but an engaging lesser-known story: Kemono no Souja Erin.
And not to forget a long slow build: Monster.
Not so dark, but an engaging lesser-known story: Kemono no Souja Erin.
And not to forget a long slow build: Monster.
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
If you watch Texhnolyze and Lain, you should watch Haibane Renmei too to finish off that "trilogy". It may not be dark in the way that something like those or Eva can get, but there's such a bittersweet sadness under the whole thing that I found really moving.
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
I can think of quite a few, both ones that I've seen and ones that I've had others recommend.
Evangelion's shojo sister, Revolutionary Girl Utena, fits the bill perfectly and it is a hoot to watch.
There's also the show that followed right in Evangelion's wake by airing in the exact same timeslot a week after Episode 26 : The Vision of Escaflowne. It's not openly dark but it has many violent/disturbing/horrifying moments and themes running through it and generally fits the other criteria. How often do you get a shonen/shojo hybrid that features Yoko Kanno's music and robotic knights designed by the great Shoji Kawamori fighting each other in classical animation?
And then there's Noir, an assassins/ancient conspiracy-themed show with elements that anticipate The Da Vinci Code well before that book came out.
Evangelion's shojo sister, Revolutionary Girl Utena, fits the bill perfectly and it is a hoot to watch.
There's also the show that followed right in Evangelion's wake by airing in the exact same timeslot a week after Episode 26 : The Vision of Escaflowne. It's not openly dark but it has many violent/disturbing/horrifying moments and themes running through it and generally fits the other criteria. How often do you get a shonen/shojo hybrid that features Yoko Kanno's music and robotic knights designed by the great Shoji Kawamori fighting each other in classical animation?
And then there's Noir, an assassins/ancient conspiracy-themed show with elements that anticipate The Da Vinci Code well before that book came out.
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
Yeah I dunno that I'd call Escaflowne dark exactly, but its excellent at any rate and one of the best TV shows of the 90's period. I do think it actually has a few interesting parallels with Nadia too, come to think of it.
The Escaflowne movie I would say gets kind of dark, but well that's a whole strange can of worms in its own right.
The Escaflowne movie I would say gets kind of dark, but well that's a whole strange can of worms in its own right.
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
I suppose Martian Successor Nadesico does also fit the bill in a few ways; not anything close to Eva, but it does get a lot darker than you'd expect from the admittedly rather silly start
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
Anno himself said that Space Runaway Ideon by Yoshiyuki Tomino inspired him in making NGE. If you thought the massacre at EoE was bloody and massive, the fact that the whole galaxy is obliterated by the end of Ideon and it even shows children dying in the frontline...
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
I actually got Evangelion vibes from magical girl anime Yuki Yuna is a hero, but if it’s a darker tone you’re looking for, Madoka Magica, perhaps?
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
If I'm not completely mistaken, wasn't Yuki Yuna is a hero also pretty squarely on the dark end?
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The movies function on their own terms. If people can't accept them on those terms, and keep expecting them to be NGE, then they probably should have realized a while ago that they weren't going to have a good time. ~ Words of wisdom courtesy of Reichu
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
^ It does get pretty dark, but I wouldn’t say on the same level of Madoka.
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Plus the concept of the monsters they battle in this anime, (Vertexes) remind of the angels, as well as there end goal of destroying human life.
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
Oregairu. The protagonist constantly self-deprecates, but in a way that's as external as internal, and it's the sole focus of the show. No giant robots, save for the Gundam reference. No body horror, no sci-fi, it's just unapologetically the drama of "why relate to, and care about others?"
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No one has mentioned Rahxephon yet? Wow.
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure Is closer still. It's just Tenchi Muyo x Evangelion stitched together.
And Tomino made his own response to Evangelion. It's laughably terrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Powerd
Ideon is more hilarious as it was riffing on everything from Star Wars to Planet of the Apes.
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No one has mentioned Rahxephon yet? Wow.
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure Is closer still. It's just Tenchi Muyo x Evangelion stitched together.
And Tomino made his own response to Evangelion. It's laughably terrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Powerd
Ideon is more hilarious as it was riffing on everything from Star Wars to Planet of the Apes.
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
Doesn't it take place in the whole Tenchi multiverse or something? It's been nearly 20 years since I've seen it.
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Re: Other anime like NGE or Nadia
Very underrated mecha anime Captain Earth has some Evangelion Vibes. Parent less emo protagonist, weird albino kid, monster of the week, alien villains piloting mechs trying to destroy the world, beautiful animation with some awesome shoulder pylons, plenty of fan service. I really enjoyed this anime, and has some banging OP’s, especially the second one by Nico Touches the wall https://youtu.be/P75eMffs04Q Shame not a lot of people seem to know or talk about this one.
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Don't recall noticing while watching, but the creator did apparently confirm that.
It's the distant past... which I don't get, as I thought Tenchi was set in modern-day.
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