I definitely agree with all that you've said but what I was saying was that the staff did their best with what they had, I mean there are plenty of anime with bad animation despite large budgets.

It kind of frustrates me when people complain about the visuals, Gainax had barely any money towards the end of anime and yet they still did a good job, in my opinion, with what they had. For example the whole scene with Shinji and Kaworu, it was a still screen for about a minute, so many people were mad yet I actually thought it said so much. Wow I'm sounding pretentious or ignorant trying to make out a scene has a purpose which probably wasn’t intended To me it completely emphasised Shinji's struggle between protecting humanity and having a relationship with someone he could talk to, someone he felt understood him and most importantly someone who wouldn't hurt him. Gainax did the best they could and I appreciate that. I definitely agree with it leaving more questions, like I said if I didn't have EoE to answer them I may've ended up pretty mad haha. I guess it does seem like a mindfuck, I didn't really understand the human instrumentality project until I watched EoE, I probably wasn't paying enough attention at the start of the episode though.

Fair enough, I think both endings are brilliant. Having both the psychological, character based original ending and EoE ending which answered our questions and had a semi complete ending was great. I say semi complete because the ending with Shinji and Asuka was ambiguous but then again I liked being able to try to interpret and understand what Asuka meant and what may’ve come next . Arguably the two endings can work simultaneously to give a wholesome synergetic ending so that's great too I guess.

I always enjoy reading other people's thoughts on evangelion, especially it's ending because it's different for everyone and is pretty complex, so thanks!

I didn't proof read this so sorry for any mistakes

I definitely agree with all that you've said but what I was saying was that the staff did their best with what they had, I mean there are plenty of anime with bad animation despite large budgets.

Neon Genesis Evangelion was all about deconstructing the characters to the core, dismantling their thoughts and issues until they were stripped bare. Sure it had the over arcing story of angels, lilith, adam, evas, the impacts and the first ancestrial race etc but ultimately what appealed to me the most was the characters and just how deeply they were developed.

I enjoyed the original ending because it completed Shinji's development, he'd been broken down into nothing, was severely depressed to say the least, but through the human instrumentality project he began to rebuild himself, he was able to realise that he can like himself, that he isn't worthless and that it's okay for him to be scared, it's okay for him to build relationships. Evangelion changed the way I though about life, one cheesy thing that stuck with me is the idea that if you're going to think negatively then life is going to be negative, I think in the final episode they used the idea that if you think of rainy days as bad then whenever it rains it will be bad, not because it's certain but because you perceive and cause it to be.

I think both the endings are brilliant, while it's nice to have the exciting, conclusive and thrilling EoE I appreciated the whole psychological side of the original ending more. So many anime have that big conclusive ending, especially of this genre where all characters go out guns blazing, but Evangelion didn't, that was really fulfilling and had a fairly big impact on me. I wasn't particularly mad that there wasn't much closure in relation to the story, maybe if I'd have watched Evangelion at a time when EoE wasn't out I may've been mad but who knows, as it stands I was satisfied that the anime went down a route which thoroughly developed Shinji and finished on that note because to me, what makes evangelion are it's characters. gotta say the story is pretty cool tho

It kind of frustrates me when people complain about the visuals, Gainax had barely any money towards the end of anime and yet they still did a good job, in my opinion, with what they had. For example the whole scene with Shinji and Kaworu, it was a still screen for about a minute, so many people were mad yet I actually thought it said so much. Wow I'm sounding pretentious or ignorant trying to make out a scene has a purpose which probably wasn’t intended To me it completely emphasised Shinji's struggle between protecting humanity and having a relationship with someone he could talk to, someone he felt understood him and most importantly someone who wouldn't hurt him. Gainax did the best they could and I appreciate that. I definitely agree with it leaving more questions, like I said if I didn't have EoE to answer them I may've ended up pretty mad haha. I guess it does seem like a mindfuck, I didn't really understand the human instrumentality project until I watched EoE, I probably wasn't paying enough attention at the start of the episode though.

Fair enough, I think both endings are brilliant. Having both the psychological, character based original ending and EoE ending which answered our questions and had a semi complete ending was great. I say semi complete because the ending with Shinji and Asuka was ambiguous but then again I liked being able to try to interpret and understand what Asuka meant and what may’ve come next . Arguably the two endings can work simultaneously to give a wholesome synergetic ending so that's great too I guess.

I always enjoy reading other people's thoughts on evangelion, especially it's ending because it's different for everyone and is pretty complex, so thanks!

I didn't proof read this so sorry for any mistakes

I definitely agree with all that you've said but what I was saying was that the staff did their best with what they had, I mean there are plenty of anime with bad animation despite large budgets.