Evangelion, a name that I've heard many times since I started watching anime 8 years ago. Being completely honest in a way I subconsciously started disliking it without even watching it because it was so popular, you know how you start disliking something after everyone starts to get into it? So I thought in my head people were overreacting, that the anime wasn't really THAT good but boy was I wrong....

I think the anime is brilliant, I can't really call it perfect because I haven't been able to find anything to compare it with but it might as well be worthy of it. My brain is still trying to decipher the meaning of certain things but possibly the hardest episodes to watch (the last 2) we're the most important ones but I feel like the other 24 episodes serve as an introduction, or perhaps to make it a little easier to understand those last 2 episodes.

If you think about it this anime is really no different than any other anime where there's a main protagonist, it just takes that idea much further. Make the protagonist a badass, make the protagonist a weakling who slowly gets stronger and stronger, make the protagonist die and be reborn into something else, none of that really matters in the end. Maybe it's not so deep, most animes try not to make it so complicated and yes they can be fun to watch and entertaining but that's about it.

This anime is different though, it may sound stupid but it is literally about Shinji but not only that, it goes even further and somehow it manages to step into the soul. Humanity. Us. I've always found it hard for people to understand me, in a way subconsciously I thought I was special somehow but this anime literally slapped my face and said "no" just the fact that so many people like it, that so many people resonate with it makes me feel that maybe I'm not so different. It made me change my perspective from "why am I so different from the rest" to "we are so all so special"

I'm not even sure if any of what I mentioned makes any sense but it's just how it made me feel. This anime is truly something else, although most of the time you hear screaming and characters suffering it also feels like a warm hug.