A Cruel Weeb’s Thesis: Why I Love Evangelion (Part 1)
A Cruel Weeb’s Thesis: Why I Love Evangelion (Part 1)
Today, under the scope, I examine the reasons behind my love for Neon Genesis Evangelion–the 1995 classic from Hideaki Anno that’s polarizing to say the least. This video is part 1 of 2.
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October 9, 2018 @ 11:29 pm
This series cured me of my suicidal tendencies when I was in High school. Tbh It was like a big therapeutic acid trip or something.
October 9, 2018 @ 11:31 pm
I kinda think Eva is overrated. Like, it’s okay, but it’s not as good as many would make one believe.
October 9, 2018 @ 11:36 pm
Fucking great intro, 10/10 interweb stars
October 9, 2018 @ 11:36 pm
I think evangelion is great, don’t get me wrong. But I think there was not enough episodes and felt slightly rushed to me. By the time it ended It felt like my brain was brutally raped. The ending of the original series was especially hard to understand. That was all in his head? Yes it was. Where did all of that thinking take place ?? Shinji fixes his problems everyone congratulated him the end. The end of evangelion ending was much easier to understand. But I still had to do a lot of research to get what had happened. A lot of REALLY IMPORTANT information in the show is glided by (yes it is in the show). But it’s really hard to absorb the REALLY IMPORTANT information when it’s quickly brought up and then you move on. I like the show, but believe it is overhyped after seeing it. Don’t get me wrong I was blown away by the spectacle of the ending of EoE. But this is just my opinion
October 9, 2018 @ 11:38 pm
I was raised by this anime and every time i rewatch this series i learn something new about myself
October 9, 2018 @ 11:39 pm
that filthy frank clip summed up eva’s characters surprisingly well…
October 9, 2018 @ 11:40 pm
3:29 Would it be safe to say that Hideaki Anno…. burned his dread…. about the series?
October 9, 2018 @ 11:40 pm
Excellent Thesis! Very insightful and very well done!
October 9, 2018 @ 11:43 pm
If all or at least half of the things were explained or hinted in the anime, then I could give it more praise but the story is all over the place. It doesn’t know how to be vague in its hidden storytelling. I like thinking. I don’t know if I can compare anime to a video game but if this game could be more like dark souls and have more understandable clues within the the show, I probably could call it a masterpiece. But even the guys in countless videos I’ve seen don’t get all their information from the anime or movie.
October 9, 2018 @ 11:45 pm
Who else doesn’t like the way he says “Asuka” and “Misato”
October 9, 2018 @ 11:45 pm
Okay poor Anno I love him and now I wanna hug him so hard. I really want to meet him in a con someday, but if not I know i’ll see him again, someday, soon.
October 9, 2018 @ 11:45 pm
5:55
Carl Jung’s name is not phonetic it is pronounced Young not "Jung".
October 9, 2018 @ 11:45 pm
lol i got here from anime abandon where nothing happened
"misata" "misatoe"
October 9, 2018 @ 11:47 pm
I hate to be that guy, but it’s pronounced "Yungian"
October 9, 2018 @ 11:50 pm
Fuck the rebirths
October 9, 2018 @ 11:50 pm
Story is stationary. Most of it is mystery like Attack on titan, poorly explained or left on the cutting floor. people like it for the characters, And that’s where all the substance is, which is a shame.
October 9, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
If only Eva’s plot didn’t shit its contrived pants toward the end (EoE included). Rebuilds had a chance to right those wrongs, but it seems that they went with the Michael Bay route instead.
October 9, 2018 @ 11:55 pm
Jesus Christ why did I expect this to be spoiler free. Fuck my life.
October 9, 2018 @ 11:56 pm
shitty demolition d rip off, make your video good if your going to make it show up in my recommendations after i watch an actually good analysis
October 9, 2018 @ 11:58 pm
The Manga and the Anime TV Series and Movies were great 1.0-3.0(cant wait for 3.0+1.0)
October 10, 2018 @ 12:01 am
Misato tries to be a mother to Shinji… by constantly making sexual advances toward him. This also hints at Misato’s relationship with her mother.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:02 am
U telling me he beat he gotdam meat over a sleeping gyal. no bueno
October 10, 2018 @ 12:02 am
I find it amusing that the things people often say about NGE, both positively and negatively are things that don’t even occur to me. I haven’t been able to sit through the series, but not because I dislike the characters or the plot or anything like that. I just can’t take the setting seriously. How is it that in a world that is hit with near apocalyptic events on a nearly daily basis can manage to have such a normal, casual society with things like school. How is it that the whole place isn’t stupidly militarized to the point where everyone is training to fight for their lives at a moment’s notice? The place is basically the setting of Attack on Titan without the walls. I don’t know. Maybe I’m missing something, but from what I’ve seen the average civilian is WAY too casual about life threatening situations that happen around them on a regular basis. I hope I’m missing something. I really do. It’d be great to get to experience an anime this influential and impacting, whether I end up enjoying it or not, but at this point I haven’t been able to get past the first few episodes.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:04 am
So many valid points! I love it!!
October 10, 2018 @ 12:06 am
GREAT video!!!! I just finished all of Evangelion and this was really insightful.?
October 10, 2018 @ 12:07 am
Someone please explain the double meaning he’s talking about at 4:50
October 10, 2018 @ 12:07 am
When you called gendo a villain, in my head i was like, "he never seemed like a villain to me, just a broken man with weak morals"
October 10, 2018 @ 12:07 am
The author wanted really something to say by this series and it shines
October 10, 2018 @ 12:08 am
Without Asuka from Germany everybody would be lost, her country was responsible for the HOLO-GRAPHIC map!
October 10, 2018 @ 12:08 am
fuck women are batshit crazy lol
October 10, 2018 @ 12:09 am
Shinji is better person than gendo. He stopped the 2nd impact..to make everyone to become tanged.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:10 am
The game Xenogears reminds me of Evangelion
October 10, 2018 @ 12:10 am
Exactly why I’ve always loved it when almost everyone around me has disliked it.
I see myself, I see all the broken and insecure people represented there… when I see someone disliking it I see someone trying their hardest to close their eyes when their most vulnerable self are shown in front of them.
No escapism to be found in this anime… and that’s why people hate it. Not because it’s not good, but because they can’t deal with themselves.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:12 am
It is my opinion, if you were the type of person who was cut out to like Eva’s real message you love the final two episodes.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:13 am
What WAS the meaning behind the "beat it" scene?
October 10, 2018 @ 12:15 am
Great review! But please, Jung is pronounced with a soft J. 😉
October 10, 2018 @ 12:15 am
The intro gave me chills
October 10, 2018 @ 12:16 am
I don’t remember this series being so in depth, most of it really just went over my head as almost filler. Maybe I was just looking to finish it rather than enjoy it. Gotta watch it all in full again
October 10, 2018 @ 12:16 am
Okay uh… is it weird to say Gendo is my favorite character in the entire series? Like he’s a horrible person and he’s not my favorite as a person (that would be Misato) but he’s the most interesting in my opinion. And I also love villainous roles (especially when they’re sympathetic). Also he has such a presence and he looks so intimidating. Is that weird? Am I weird? I’m weird… I’m sorry…
October 10, 2018 @ 12:17 am
One of my friend introduced me Evangelion as "You gotta watch it coz’ it’s brilliant, it will make you depressed, and want to kill yourself, but still worth it."
So I watched like 15 episodes, and it is not depressing, didn’t even think about killing myself, and I don’t think it’s ‘brilliant’ but it is definitely very good. Something wrong with me?
October 10, 2018 @ 12:17 am
Had no idea what was going on while watching the series but after watching this I’m like "ITS ALL MAKES FUCKING SENSE NOW! THATS SO FUCKED UP!"
October 10, 2018 @ 12:18 am
I still think it’s trash. Complete garbage.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:18 am
Listening to you pronounce meesa-to and asu-ka (mi-sato, aska) makes me cringe.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:18 am
Still waiting on Evangelion 3.0+1.0…aka fourrr point fucking 0hhh
October 10, 2018 @ 12:21 am
Evangelion is for 13year olds what Synecdoche is to 30year olds. Both so insightful.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:24 am
It’s german ya dweeb.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:24 am
If this anime was like Metroid, it will be awesome.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:25 am
Eva actually learned me to confront myself: accepting I can have human impulses that strike with other’s, know I am who I am and making a mistake isn’t the end of the world, as long as we learn from that mistake. I think a lot of other people did too
October 10, 2018 @ 12:28 am
Finaly someone with his mind in his head.
October 10, 2018 @ 12:28 am
XENOGEARS BEST ANIME.