Japanese animation/film director Hideaki Anno first showcased Neon Genesis Evangelion—a 26-episodes-long television series—in 1995. Since then the superflat-influenced, Kabbalistic, and bitterly hard to absorb apocalyptic battles between giant robotic creatures called EVAs against hostile monsters known as Angels have turned into a multi-million-dollar franchise spawning three theatrical releases, a manga series, and countless action figures that continue to rape wallets of otakus everywhere. The above trailer showcases the second installment to a tetralogy known as Rebuild of Evangelion, which came out in Japan two years ago (with a better trailer). It's finally getting a U.S. release on January 21, so give this post-modernistic piece drenched with psychological and philosophical motifs a try. You'll be hooked, and start asking yourself, "Why's Shinji such a bitch?"
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somethingcrazy January 5th, 2011 at 10:35 PM
yo complex. before you start go nuts about some mecha suit armor anime, you should check out Gundam. The original shit son :P
Juan M. January 7th, 2011 at 11:27 AM
@somethingcrazy-maybe you should watch evangelion and realize that EVA are not robots/mecha
Koko Krunk January 13th, 2011 at 01:58 PM
Ignorant nerds will never understand that part man nor will they ever appreciate the whole of Evangelion other than the battle scenes and the aesthetics.
niko January 8th, 2011 at 01:57 PM
the original series took inspiration/ideas from many mecha animes, mainly gundam, macross, yamamoto etc, primarily to satire the genre, that was mostly the first half of the series. and at my own risk " LEAVE SHINJI ALONE". hahaha. he actually manages to get on my nerves as well, but i choose to sympathize with him.