Evangelion is not fun, but it's always worth watching

Neon Genesis Evangelion will arrive on Netflix in the spring of 2019, making it available to watch in America without hacking it or spending hundreds of dollars for an exhausted box.

It was a show that had a huge impact on me and that I finally found more interesting than strictly enjoyable. Despite his depressed tone and sinister plot, it is worth watching anyone who is interested in the anime as a form of art.

Neon Genesis Evangelion It was directed by Hideki Anno, who previously worked at Studio Ghibli before co-founding Gainax. It was broadcast on television from 1995 to 1996, followed by a few films.

Despite the difficulties of the studio to complete the show and the lack of money, Eva is one of the most famous and influential anime of all time.

I was probably too young to see Evangelion when I watched it, that's why it is permanently printed in my brain. I was 13 years old and I understood that there was an imbalance in the chemistry of my brain that made me insensitive to all emotions, while doing my best to ignore my suspicions that I was not straight.

Watching Eva when your mind is in this state, it's as if you are sticking your brain into a blender. Anno himself fought against depression during the production of Evangelion, and the series deliberately relies on the empty space of people deep within mental illness.

The show is centered on Shinji Ikari, whose missing father recovers Shinji to turn him into a pilot of a giant named Eva, to fight the monstrous enemies called Angels who attack the futuristic city of Tokyo-3.

At the time of the premiere of the show, it was a pretty common setup for giant mecha shows. Someone's father is a scientist who has made a giant robot after giving up for years and instead of traumatizing the child, he is delighted. Eva took a different approach. Shinji hated and felt his father; he does not want to fly an Eva or fight in a war, but he has to do it anyway. Things are bad.

During the series, Shinji and his fellow pilots are so upset by their experience as child soldiers that they begin to lose consciousness of reality.

Asuka Langely Soryu, a fire star pilot, is so focused on success that she can not connect with other people and expresses her deep loneliness as anger. Rei Ayanami is a docile and submissive woman who literally has no identity, a fact that slowly untangles her.

As the series progresses, becoming increasingly sinister, glimpses of the next episode ironically continue to promise more services to fans.

It's not fun to spend time with these characters. It's not nice to watch Shinji on the verge of a mental health crisis, episode after episode, only to repel the people who are worried about him.

There is a reason why "Shinji, get into this bading robot", has become a joke among fans. Eva is slow and painful, and sometimes the characters feel more like mouthpieces for Anno's thoughts on society than the actual characters. It's always brilliant. Every time I look at it, I feel like I'm transported to Anno's brain.

Art does not have to be fun to make an impact. I do not like to watch Citizen KaneOrson Welles is still shocking after all these years. I will probably never read guardians again, but it's a great example of how to tell interconnected stories in a comic format, and that basically changed the comics.

I've been in the middle of Infinite joke For several years at this point, and although I read novel length pbadages that I love every time, getting through is a chore. But in their respective genres, these works had such an impact on their respective forms that I felt I had to at least try to experiment with them so that I could really understand their influence.

Do not watch Neon Genesis Evangelion when it comes to Netflix expect to have a good time. Look at it so that you can understand how this particular show lives through the series it has influenced: the scams that have followed one another like (no doubt) RahXephon, The last metatextual offers of Ganaix as Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagaan, shows that deconstruct their gender as Madoka Magika does, or even Hollywood movies like Pacific Rim.

Observe him for his beautiful animation, especially the non-Euclidian drawings of the enemy angels, which melt the brain, and the expressiveness of rough sketches and line drawings drawn towards the end when the studio has run out of money. . Look at him to see a hard but truthful expression of what is the fight against depression.

At the very least, pay attention that every time you see a female character subjected to pale skin, blue hair and submissive in an anime, you know where this trope comes from.