Postby shinji_ryoji_89 » Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:08 pm
I think the first time I heard of Evangelion was when I was like 10 years old r so and I was watching this debate show on TV where they were talking about satanism and how it was influencing children. And it was brought up that anime was satanic, and as an example they brought up a magazine that said "Evangelion: Humanity against its God". From that moment on, I was hooked, I thought that was a very cool premise. It really made me guess if humanity or God were the villains or the heroes and since then, I really wanted to see it, but I wasn't an expert on where anime could be found and I was too lazy to go look for it.
Then about a year or months later, I don't quite remember, I bought "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise" that got my attention because I thought the story was very cool and I liked it quite a bit, and I realized that it was made by the same studio that had made Evangelion and decided that then I should really look for it.
Time went by and I was in High School and I saw some friends watching an episode on a laptop and I thought it looked pretty cool, and I was reminded of how much I wanted to see it, but again, I didn't pursue it.
Later, my math tutor would hum "Kom, Susser Tod" to himself while I was working on the exercises he had assigned me and I asked him where it was from and he told me and he pretty much said it was a scene where everybody died and the world ended. And I've always been into apocalyptic kind of stuff, so that made me go "Cool! Now, I must really watch this show!".
Again, time went by and I didn't watch the show until, finally, in like january, a friend of mine lent me the first 13 episodes or so on DVD and I was sick, so I spent two days in bed, with my laptop on my chest, watching them and I had liked it quite a bit. But I was thinking that the character dramas and relationships than the whole robot aspect of it. I had liked it a lot, but I was feeling a little underwhelmed by it but I did want to know what would happen next.
Months later, my brother began to watch it and I would glimpse at the screen and was getting an idea about how the story and the characters had evolved and I really wanted to see how it ended. So, in two days, I watched the rest of the series and I loved it and wanted to see EoE. When I did, it affected me to such a degree that I had to pause the film and exit the room during the "Kom, Susser Tod" scene. It just was absolutely heartbreaking to see all of the characters die, and the rest of the world, I just thought it was absolutely hopeless and I was so angry at Shinji for the attitude he had taken and so angry at Asuka and Gendo for how they had treated Shinji. I kept thinking "Man, if one of them had been nice to him, maybe he wouldn't have ended the world as he is doing". It really affected me and I just had to leave the room for a while. I took deep breaths and after a long while, decided to see the rest. The ending left me relieved but also very bewildered at the same time and I knew I had seen something truly special. Since then, I'm eating up anything I can about Evangelion; it really made me look deeply into myself as a person because I really identified with Shinji when I was his age, it has made ask myself questions about my beliefs, psychology and overall, somehow, it has increased my faith in people. It made me realize I'd hate to be like Shinji and close myself to the world like he did, because that's something I keep falling back into in my life. Also, as a filmmaker, it has made me want to do something as great as Evangelion someday. I'm not sure if I could, but the inspiration is now there.
Now, I'm really looking forward to watching Rebuild and really hope someone gets the idea to release it in theaters here, because I would love to experience Evangelion on the big-screen.
FreakyFilmFan4ever wrote:I like this chic. VHS rocks for some reason. The colors are truer to life/more vibrant on VHS tape than on DVD. That, and they just make me feel like a kid again.
