[sakeido]

The alternate ending sucks too. All the endings suck! There is like three different ones (TV series, Laserdisc, End of Evangelion) and they are all physchobabble garbage

[eleven59]

I watched part of Evangellion and enjoyed it. I'll probably see the whole series at some point, and the End of Evangellion.

[Toshiro]

Originally Posted by sakeido

The alternate ending sucks too. All the endings suck! There is like three different ones (TV series, Laserdisc, End of Evangelion) and they are all physchobabble garbage

Anno also directed Nadia of The Blue Water, but dropped out near the end. I shudder to think how crappy the ending of that show would've been if he stuck around.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by Toshiro

The Patlabor Movies get kinda odd like that in some places(instead of the rampant comedy that was the TV show), but the cinematography is more like Ghost in the Shell(same director, same production company I think).

Anno, the director of NGE, is a f'ing weirdo. Looking up more of his stuff might work.

Other than that, dunno. You like the aspect of that show that drove me away from it.

Personally I think Evangelion is WAAY overrated, but I love Anno. He made one of the coolest live action movies: Shikijitsu (2000, with director Shunji Iwai playing one of the two main characters in his only acting role and Ayako Fujitani, Stephen Seagal's cute Japanese daughter, playing the other main character who is this seriously crazy 18-22 year old girl).

Anno can be a genius in some of the live action films he made. Evangelion just seems so "normal." I never really got what the hype was about. Up until the end, it's just like any other robot animation and then it gets really bizarre.

As for recommendations, for really weird psycho animations, I recommend "Lain." I used to own the entire series on DVD, but I sold it to my friend who normally hates Japanese animation, but I told him he's probably like this because it reminded me of X-Files and some other stuff he likes. So we watched it together, he really really liked it, and decided to buy the entire series off me. "Serial Experiments: Lain" (1998)

[Toshiro]

Originally Posted by Naren

Personally I think Evangelion is WAAY overrated, but I love Anno. He made one of the coolest live action movies: Shikijitsu (2000, with director Shunji Iwai playing one of the two main characters in his only acting role and Ayako Fujitani, Stephen Seagal's cute Japanese daughter, playing the other main character who is this seriously crazy 18-22 year old girl).

Anno can be a genius in some of the live action films he made. Evangelion just seems so "normal." I never really got what the hype was about. Up until the end, it's just like any other robot animation and then it gets really bizarre.

As for recommendations, for really weird psycho animations, I recommend "Lain." I used to own the entire series on DVD, but I sold it to my friend who normally hates Japanese animation, but I told him he's probably like this because it reminded me of X-Files and some other stuff he likes. So we watched it together, he really really liked it, and decided to buy the entire series off me. "Serial Experiments: Lain" (1998)

See, I don't watch much Japanese live action, just old samurai movies.

I just didn't like the over exaggerated psychological problems in NGE. Takahashi makes that shit funny, but in this case it made me hate the cast. I do like Ayanami though, but just because I think she's drawn pretty well, and my Hayashibara fixation.

I think all NGE fans should have to watch Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure (TV) - Anime News Network at least once, just so they stop taking the former show so seriously.

[D-EJ915]

Originally Posted by Toshiro

Anno also directed Nadia of The Blue Water, but dropped out near the end. I shudder to think how crappy the ending of that show would've been if he stuck around.

That's a good show (the back story) imo, you guys should watch it. On the surface it is cheesy as hell though

[Seedawakener]

Lots of recommendations. Il check out these animes and hopefully Ill like some of them...

btw, www.veoh.com didn't have "the end of evangelion" nor "death and rebirth"... SO Ill have to watch it later. I still believe the ending would be a bit better if it didnt take place in Shinjis mind...

[sakeido]

From what I could gather, the TV series ending still is taking place during the End of Evangelion. You need to put them together for it to really be complete. There is a lot more cool giant robot fighting in End of Eva, but still much weirdness and it all comes apart at the end.

[Leon]

i enjoyed the NGE series as well, as a first-time anime-watcher. haven't watched much else since.

[Toshiro]

Just so you guys know, Gainax is on some type of anniversary kick at the moment, and will be releasing 4 NGE movies, retelling the plot, over the next year in Japan. Yup, NGE is a decade old now. Expect ADV to hype the shit out of their cash cow the moment they can release it here.

I will admit that the new Gunbuster OAV was pretty cool. I wanna see the movie.