Rebuild of Evangelion: 2.2222 Where Is (The) Review. 

Adding in my two cents on the weirdly bad CG in the city fight that is revealed to be a sound stage. It's worth remembering that Anno is a huge Ultraman fan and that the basic concept of Evangelion is basically just a rip-off of Ultraman. All the enemies are aliens coming to wreck havoc on earth. The Eva's themselves have the battery timers similar to Ultraman's color timer when the Umbilical Plug gets yanked. All the rampant Christian imagery/symbolism (there is a pretty famous episode of Ultraman Ace where all the previous Ultramen get crucified), etc. etc. So that section of the fight on the sound stage (even the bad CG) is about stripping away all of the artifice of the series that has built up over 3 decades. This isn't Evangelion anymore, this is just two guys on a sound stage doing an Ultraman fight. Complete with all the little model buildings that get knocked around. All this to say I'm like 99% sure it's on purpose. (Also just a fun fact: Anno did all the mocap for Ultraman in Shin Ultraman so he was effectively the "suit actor" for the movie as it were.)

I want the Lucky Star review on my desk by Monday!

My contarian take is that everything I wanted from 4.0 I got from Hathaway's Flash.

Friend: "This series has three endings? So, which one is cannon?" Me: "YES"

Ahh, unexpected improvement to the day!

I...I love the ending. It's Anno telling us to grow up, just like the original ending, but more elaborated. You can't escape reality with media consumption. Sooner or later you're gonna have to snap back. A world without Evangelion. A world where you meet new friends, perhaps a lover, and you have to earn it. Paired with Utada Hikaru's amazing voice, it made me tear up a little. The 26 year journey is finally over. The TV series send a message to all the children in the world. And this one, to all the children that grew up and matured along with Evangelion. Thank you Anno, for creating one of my favourite thing. Mari, for me, serves as Shinji's redemption. Her appearance shifted the whole story to a new direction, and she accelerates Shinji's growth, both mentally and physically. She is the biggest variable that separated Rebuild from the TV series. Also she's kinda cute and slowly grew into me. (The EVA merch aren't gonna stop for the next 30 years though)

Glad this is finally out! Thanks for this even if your well intentioned edits left me with a somewhat disjointed feeling. More videos, please please. Congrats on the offspring.

It’s a good day now that the boys are finally back 😭

Welcome back lads

finally someone to tell me what my opinion of the rebuilds is, thx lads

What army is Rob painting? And congratulations on the kid too, I guess.

I'm just glad to see another classic review with you guys. Amazing content as always! You guys may have a more niche popularity in the platform but I respect how you guys feel much real in your mecha reviews.

Anno will forever be unfathomably based for the sheer fact that he put in his wife as mari to date shinji and giving the middle finger to the fandom despite decades of asuka or rei debate

I missed you guys. It’s a shame RU-vid doesn’t give attention to channels that don’t pump out 1 minute vids on the shorts tab.

Shout out to Netrunner, great card game

I really like the 4th film, it's kind of uplifting which is such an odd thing for an Evangelion film. It needed a happy ending though just because the whole series and previous films where pretty depressing.

Great video and congrats on the baby :D

Once again asking for the complete uncut version of all the videos. Come and See Depression Kino when?

How about GIANT ROBO The animation The day the earth stood still

Their back

Can't wait for the 1.1 rebuild review of evangelion rebuild 1.1 [you are not entertained] in 2035

Fuuuuck yeah! Sight unseen 10/10, never heard of this show. Waiting on Robotech review

I'm actually gonna speak out in defense of Mari. I like that they brought in someone completely new and SHE was the one who saved Shinji. That's how life is sometimes: you spend your childhood obsessing over certain people, but then you get out there and meet someone completely unconnected to all of those prepubescent fantasies... and THAT'S the one you spend the rest of your life with. I relate to that a lot. Mari wasn't Asuka and wasn't Rey, and wasn't tangled up in all of the shit that came before. That's to her credit. Mari represents the "wider world" beyond the cradle. She was a great addition.

I will always defend The Last Jedi. The issue isn't that it sucks (it has problems), the issue is that it challenged the audience and analyzed the franchise, and then the next entry didn't build off it at all. It's like if Return of the Jedi went "Darth Vader was lying, he's not really Luke's father, also Jabba the Hutt is the trilogy's villain now." The Empire Strikes Back had the same kind of backlash that The Last Jedi did, but RotJ stuck the landing way better than Rise of Skywalker.

I have nothing to say, just commenting for the algorithm

Here’s my explanation of all the endings in Evangelion to newer fans: Tv series: Default Ending End of Evangelion: Bad Ending Manga: Good Ending Rebuild: True Ending The trick though is that the true ending only works if you’ve seen the others…

What faction are ya collecting Rob! Show dem models! =w=)

You Can (not) put off ZZ forever.

Wait. This isn't the Twin Peaks Season 2 review

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Do ZZ you cowards. The you can actually justify taking a year.

Evangelion is a hard series for me to get into. I think shinji as a whole is just straight up insufferable

This was terrible Jesus Christ

What army is Rob painting? And congratulations on the kid too, I guess.

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