Addicted To Anime

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Evangelion...

I have completed the fourth disk in the Neon Genesis Evangelion Platinum Edition series. It end at the episode entitled The Fourth Child. What I want to say about this series is that it struck me as the most human of the anime that I've seen so far. I can relate to the characters so much more in this series than, say, Kaleido Star or even Vampire Princess Miyu (I know, I know it sounds odd, but i'm struggling with semantics here!).

This is the genius of anime. From an American viewpoint, you take the best soap operam or TV drama you can find. Now animate it. Then take the best of Science Fiction elements and intertwine them with the story, and there you have it. I think i have come close to expresing why I enjoy anime so much by just describing what it is like to me.

I recommned this series; if you can't wait the first release (8 DVDs in a boxed set) are available or you can get the first four of the Platinum set and wait out the rest as I am doing. Both are distributed by ADV Films. Here is the site from Japan.

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