Some spoiler thoughts on the NGE Movie: I've taken a few days to digest the shocking endings of the series... NGE is a comedy, in the tradition of Dante's Divine Comedy. In Dante's time, a comedy was a story where in the end, everyone got what they deserved. This story has more than a...
Yeah, I'm gonna watch both endings as well because my curiosity is really high. The structure of the story is what really blew me away.. The flashback are incredibly effective and extraordinarily well-timed. They drop tantalizing hints along the way and then lower the boom when you least expect...
I started renting the Neon Genesis series at the suggestion of this group (I'm very new to anime: have only seen Ghost in Shell and some Animatrix) and I'm glad I did! Geez, that show really kicked my a**! The first couple of episodes seemed really formula and loaded with cliches, but when...