How Evangelion Altered Anime Eternally
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So, Evangelion was the Evangelion of anime ?
Le_Carabinier Deep.
Le_Carabinier You’re a big boy
this comment is more psychological than the entire neon genisis evangelion series
? so, Evangelion makes anime a bit different from cartoon?
So anime is just cartoon b4 Evangelion altered the anime?
You can (not) be serious?
Sounds like it was the Watchmen or Viz of anime.
Guy(s): Hey, you can do something different with this medium, here's *example*
Everybody else: *example* was a success. COPY IT EXACTLY.
Except all the Viz clones rapidly died out (not paying your artists = no more art), and American comics? Er, well...
Post and Pre Evangelion is also a good way to describe someone's anime fandom. And for some people, their entire life.
Post evangelion is a time of peace and enjoying generic anime tropes like a daily cup of tea/can of coke zero.
Pre Evangelion... Well i shouldnt have watched Devilman Crybaby and Gakkou Gurashi with that so im stuck in an existential crisis fueled by nightmares and paranoia.
How does it work if it was the second show I ever saw, first being Bebop?
I need no channel youtube!
That just means its all downhill.
+PSNSMANIACALMIND1st Isnt it always? A descent into depravity...
but..... tthose 2 shows you mention in your "Pre-Evangelion" are "Post-Evangelion"
Just finished binging NGE and EoE yesterday. This is anime's masterpiece. Surprised it was just as good as Monster for me.
Oh boy.. Monster. I need to get to that as well -.-
Binging neon genesis evangelion isn't really the best thing you can do haha
I read a lot of the manga but didn't like it
binging nge is like getting depression speedrun
Evangelion was definitely a HUGE GAME CHANGER! I witnessed it in the 90s ...... I was blown away ....
i recently found out abt it, well within the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 but its probably changed my entire view on anime, it will always and forever be my favorite anime and hold a special place in my heart
So NGE really did become "gospel of the new genesis" for anime. This is so meta
This guy straight-up lied when he said episodic anime didn’t really exist before Evangelion.
@@LOSTGAM3R He didn't say that
@@LOSTGAM3R yeah he literally didn't say that dude. People like you are so fucking annoying.
@@LOSTGAM3R
You could say NGE is like Christ. There's a before NGE and after NGE period of the Anime Industry.
@@Pduarte79 BNGE and ANGE, not bad
evangelion altered me eternally
tfw no u
it altered me internally
exactly my thoughts.Same shit with music ,art and pretty much everything.people drank the evangelion kool-aid and praise it as the best anime ever even though it's a botched anime that lacked the budget to fully realize and even finish....it's like praising a song as a masterpiece even thought it suddenly cuts for no reason and the last minute is fumbled static with the proper ending being released some years later...
me too. Now I can fap to comatose girls without feeling guilty. Ty Shinji!!! (now get in the robot)
Same
You Can (Not) Go Back
"All of the sudden anime changed completely, but in a very slow and methodical way"
Digibro ladies and gentlemen
This guy straight-up lied when he said episodic anime didn’t really exist before Evangelion.
went in the comments just for this
You really want to get everyone to watch evangelion, don't you....
He should be careful what he wishes for. Whatever anyone's opinion of the show is, they'd have to admit "polarizing" is a very accurate way to describe it. Me, for instance, I thought it was a complete and unmitigated disaster.
Gotta agree: The show literally makes everything good about it a bad thing. Not to mention it fucks up so many deconstructions that other anime did before it, especially the one IT WS BASED OFF.
When your an anime reviewer talking about the most influential and controversial anime of all time is kinda inevitable.
It's reasonable, I like to people to see things I love as well; remember that Digi gives Eva 10/10
Every person with a bit of interest on the medium and some other bit of taste should do it.
When people tell me Evangelion is overcomplicated or "fake-deep," I disagree but I can see where they might have valid points. When people try telling me Evangelion is not influential, I laugh in their faces.
Yeah, I mean jesus christ, the fact that this discussion is even being had means that *literally everyone has seen Evangelion*.
Evangelion's plot isn't overcomplicated - it just heavily relies on implicit storytelling. If you miss it, you're lost and confused until your 10th analysis video clears it up - only to be debunked by your 13th analysis video.
sad boi has bad dad, good mom, bad situation, good waifus, bad mental health, good robo mom, bad plot progression and pacing, a life ruining experience; 10/10
Those saying Evangelion is overcomplicated or fake-deep are basically too dumb.... So, the fanbase for Code GayAss and Shit Art Online....
@@daerovius7535 I'd beg to differ. People who consider themselves above Evangelion aren't likely to announce themselves as fans of either of those shows without some pretty big qualifiers.
Eva is not complicated at all. You just have to look and listen. And a lot of human issues are portrayed so correctly, that it is almost scary and definitely heartbreaking.
Yes, THE Berserk adaptation.
There is only one.
Nothing else.
Nope.
berserk is one of the only shows in which i reallly push the manga
absolutely fantastic manga art it just doesnt have the same appeal put to animation with color
The third movie did the eclipse better than the 97 anime
A incomplete adaptation
yup, only one.
@@girthicusmaximus I push manga to pretty much most manga. The only exceptions for me is the 4 Panel manga, Attack on Titan or Demon Slayer.
"Lord of the flies in space" and "Not up its own ass eva" sound interesting af
Let me know which version accomplishes that.
I’m pretty sure that the main thing that Evangelion did was not make original anime popular , but made OVA level animation to television anime. The 80s was particularly creative with anime originals. The 90s was a period of economic decline which made it more common to have adaptations or franchise series. I think this is very important with the context of Evangelion because it shows where the industry was as the early 90s was a very different place than the 80s with anime. Therefore, I would argue that Gundam was more important for establishing original anime. Great video.
Two things I love about Evangelion that it brought to the table:
1. Visualized character introspection - It's the thing people usually refer to as "trippy animation" but it's something more specific. Evangelion went out of its way to present the actual psycho of the characters, not just by playing their voice over a still of their face, but using abstract graphics, rapid shots, pieces of text etc. This is something you very clearly see in things like Utena, Madoka, Neo Ranga, Lain or Rahxephon and you practically never saw it pre-eva.
2. Jigsaw-puzzle plots - The whole idea of putting off exposition and letting the viewer put together the elements. Overall surreal plots which need some deciphering from the us. Enokido and Konaka became significant for this and the latter actually did work on Evangelion as a scripwriter for some of the episodes. You see this everywhere, in the shows I mentioned plus things like Big O, FLCL, Star Driver or Flip Flappers.
Glad I watched these shows when I was older, NGE and Cowboy Bebop make sense and their aesthetic is beautiful.
Escaflowne has such a powerful soundtrack by Yoko Kanno!
I feel like I just watched a video where a guy dropped a good premise for discussion, and then named dropped every anime he has ever watched without ever telling us anything.
Honestly kinda true, it's basically just, "These are the shows that came before Eva, and these are the shows that came after Eva"
I don't believe it. Someone actually acknowledged that the Vision of Escaflowne existed?! I-Impossible!
It was the first anime I ever watched start to finish. The 90's were a weird time to be a child.
So...
No consideration for what was happening in Japan during the nineties? No mention of the bursting of the Japanese housing bubble, the lost decade? Just a side mention as a detail from a show you list off rather than as a major player to the formation of this new style of anime?
I agree that Eva is a landmark anime and has certainly been key to the transition you point out in the video, although how much Eva affected late nineties anime immediately after its release is questionable due to production schedules.
Treating it like the major cause for later visionary works ignores how much the Lost Decade affected Japanese life as a whole. One could argue that the pessimistic speculation of the late 90's anime that Eva seemed to spearhead came as a result of a country now lost in direction due to the implosion of its economy while new technologies at the time provide fuel for new creative exploration in both STEM and philosophy. There, a free starter thesis for anyone who wants to explore that topic.
Eva just happens to be the first major symptom of this implosion's effect on the anime industry at the time. Or not; Ghost in the Shell did release around the same time as Eva.
I guess my complaint is this. If you are going to bring up anime history, it is imperative to also connect it back to Japanese contemporary history. There are simply not enough anime analyzers on CZcams that also take in Japan and the world as factors to the history of anime.
Ray Ye I couldn't agree more. Many people ignore the context when something was created. There are way too many things signed to NGE which I don't know whether this guy is fangirling or serious. One example - Utena is mostly influenced by Rose of Versailles, this guy ignores influence of other shows (why couldn't Serial Experiments Lain influence something?) and is pretty much ignorant about older anime which aren't mostly for child audience, there are also mangas with dark themes (Berserk was still good at that time).
interesting. SOMEONE MAKE A VIDEO ON THIS AS WELL!!
I thought the same, most Evangelion fans think everything revolves around their ultra-deep you-need-300-IQ-to-understand-it anime smh
I disagree. The show has little touch of their present reality. Slowing economy is quite the opposite of encouraging original shows/ideas/adult themes. If I really have to look hard for a connection is that the working adults spent less more time outdoors and watched more during that time.
Ray Ye honestly people like you annoy me the most you bitch about the video instead of taking action if you want something like that do it yourself be a man of actions not words
Well, now I've got a long watch list to go through.
Can we also talk about how go nagai pretty much created mecha, hentai, and magical girl genre?
Holy fuck.
pretty much, and how his work have such influence in a lot of people, a great example would be Devilman, thanks to that we have berserk and thanks to berserk we have dark souls, that's how really complex it really is.
He didn’t do shit with magical girls.
@@thomasffrench3639 yeah it's not like cutie honey is the founding work of the genre or anything like that. Absolutely had nothing to do with the popularity of female protagonists in action roles. Absolutely didn't pioneer the ever so iconic and fundamental aspect of the transformations since 1973. Not all.
@@godzillacc5 I don’t think that a female Kamen Rider counts as a magical girl show. It’s a western thing to call it magical girl. Also Sally the Witch was the first magical girl.
Really enjoyed this trip through time, great vid!
so basically Eva is to TV anime what Twin Peaks was for regular TV.
As long as you don't compare season 3 of Twin Peaks to the Rebuild of Evangelion films.
never really watched those... Are they good?
S3 TP was AWESOME, even better than the original run in many aspects.
The Rebuilds are alright anime films, but loose out on a lot of the complexity and meaning of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion, and in some ways are clear cash grabs, while Twin Peaks season 3 surpassed seasons 1 and especially 2.
Unless you care about spoilers, I'd highly recommend checking Demolition D's three part series on the original NGE vs the Rebuilds.
This is a fantastic video. Thanks a ton for sharing!
Thank you Digi, these are the kinda of videos of yours I love most. So many new anime to watch now and so much history learned.
"The Lord of the Flies" in space. Exactly what I was thinking when you were talking about the concept. Loved that book, probably gonna watch it.
Thank you for this. I tried saying the same today to a friend just getting into anime ( 20 years difference in our age so made it hard to point out the massive change in not just the shows, but the culture of anime over all from my time to his. linked to him. )
This was an amazingly well put together and researched piece.
This brought back a lot of memories! Thank you for making this video!
You forgot how long anime needs to be in production. There is no way Escaflowne and Nadesico could have gotten green-lit, finish pre-production and ready to be aired within a few months after Evangelion. Those shows were probably green-lit before Evangelion took off. No one could have predicted Evangelion's success, so I doubt Evangelion has anything to do with them. It was just the first one to get popular. Maybe they were released within a similar time frame because companies were recovering from Japanese asset price bubble's collapse in the early 90s and had money to invest, and original TV shows is far cheaper than insanely expensive original movies that were constantly made back in the 80s.
something631 the japanese economy going into recession wss caused by capitalism. This is why we need Communism.
mrmeatman You poor baby.
You have a great point
Dark Portal I understand the point he is trying to make. Pretty much everything he said can't be proven or disproven, but I just think his evidence isn't convincing enough. 2:56 You can see El Hazard: The Wanderers beside Evangelion on the same seasonal chart, an original anime with 26 episodes airing alongside Evangelion. There are also dark mecha TV anime before Evangelion existed, maybe Escaflowne and Nadesico were influence by those shows instead.
There's no luxury gay space communism in anime but there's already luxury gay skate communism from anime
Was that a fucking Nissan commercial featuring Hideaki Anno at the end there?
literally what i was thinking
He needs the cash to pay for all those meds.
I'm even more worried about their phrase: "touch your Ni(i)ssan"
Subliminal message from Digibro, showing how Hideaki Anno once again changed anime, this time by starting the everpresent incest cliche (specially the "not blood related so it's okay" one)
+TheNikoNik With what? Rei? I never really bought that argument.
Almost each time Digi posts a video it is like a lecture of anime history.
And after the video ends there are a lot of stuff to look and search which is great.
Keep up the good content ;-)
I think my favorite thing about your videos is that I always come away with a list of things that interest me.
Digi really really did say “the time I would say the effect of eva really reached its apex would be:” about 5 times
Two things that are constant in the anime community:
1. Waifu battles
2. Discussions about Evangelion
Funnily enough, I've been re-watching my Evangelion box set recently and just after finishing it both you and SEW made videos about the show.
Really appreciate how this vid is all business, full of great information, and to the point. Thanks!
This video made me so nostalgic. I've seen and enjoyed virtually every post eva anime you listed in this video. The first five or so years after eva were some of the best.
"Why Evangelion is the Kanye West of anime"
Joshua Silva ... 👀 But... it’s actually good though.
Making a great product based off stealing ideas from small, talented artists?
@@alexevanspoppsychedelicren4158 Well I don't think it is stealing as much of working with them and even when he 'steals' he gets permission or signs them.Do you really think Kid Cudi and Chance the Rapper would be as big as they are without Kanye.
Well, not really NGE is awesome, and Kanye West is at best absolute crap
@@daerovius7535 Have you ever heard a Kanye album?
Thanks for this Digi, this honestly helped me remember a ton of shows I've watched over the last 20 years that had faded to the deep recesses of my mind.
This was such a nostalgia trip. Of the anime you mentioned, both pre- and post-eva, I'd only not seen about a dozen, of which only three or four I hadn't actually heard of. I was a huge anime nerd in the 90's and early 00's. Most anime videos these days are talking about shows and a meta that I haven't seen and have long since lost track of, so it was great to see one where I recognized everything you were talking about.
dude amazing video really i loved it and the add ones to what i must watch
i know, i know i let you down
SkyGears I've been a fool to myself. I thought that I could live for no one else.
Good job Josuke, you are living up to your name!
BUT NOW
THROUGH ALL THE HURT AND PAIN
TUMBLING DOWN
It’s time for me to respect, the ones you love mean more than anything...
Been postponing a binge-watch on Evangelion, but I know I'll eventually have to do it.
These videos, though, show me the sheer amount of animes I'd like to watch but probably will never find the time to do it within my lifetime.
This was a really great video, excellent stuff. The kind of stuff that art history students should watch. Thanks!
Geez @Digibro, I thought i was big into anime. This entire video gave me a whole new list to go through, i can't thank you enough!!
Take a shot everytime he says something along the lines of "Now THIS is when Evangelion began to show its mark."
GaoGaiGar and GGG FINAL were so good. I really loved TTGL as well, but I feel that it also single-handedly ended mecha as a genre. It has so many homages to the great Super Robots before it, but it's just so over-the-top that nobody seems to want to bother with mecha anymore, because TTGL is just so insane. And new fans, especially those who only know TTGL and don't recognize all its homages to those that came before it, just so quickly write off the older series because of how extreme TTGL is. "Why should I watch Gunbuster? TTGL can throw galaxies like shuriken." It's like saying nobody should ever do any superhero stuff again because One Punch Man can beat them all.
Awesome! Just brilliant, bro.
great video man
Awesome fun and informative video! I began watching Evangelion at 12 years old, have been collecting the manga by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto for 13 years and I still love and appreciate this anime today, 18 years later. I also had the privilege of enjoying titles like Escaflowne, Utena, Nadesico, Trigun and Cowboy Beebop growing up in the 90's. I haven't really enjoyed anime since the early 2000's. After watching anime for 10+ years or so, you realize it's all been said and overdone to DEATH. Regardless, Evangelion holds a special place in my heart!
I was at that point around the mid 2000s, but if you haven't done so you should watch death note, gurenn lagann and even eureka seven. Those are all shows i missed because i thought the same. I was a fool in retrospect, maybe you will see that if you go back watching anime as well. Good luck and have fun! Would also suggest looking outside of anime itself and try to find the sources for most of the really good shows. Fate/ Stay Night has a visual novel, so does Steins:Gate and the new Steins:Gate 0 as well.
Am I safe if I say that Madoka has this huge "Eva influence"?
Yes.
Akatsubasa It's more of a influential flow
Utena got inspired by Eva, Princess tutu got inspired by Utena and Madoka got inspired by Princess tutu
The point of the video is how modern anime as a whole has been shaped by it so yes, Madoka obviously has Eva influences.
Waldo Lumberjack
I always felt that Madoka's influence was based a bit more on Bokurano and Utena then Tutu. That's not to say that Tutu didn't have some driving force behind it, but these two series seemed to have considerably more parallels with Madoka's final product.
Waldo Lumberjack despite Madoka having stunning visuals, I still prefer tutu to madoka.
loved this video!!!
Great analysis!
Evangelion changed anime eternally by causing idiots who didn't get it to forever whine and complain about "low budget" anime.
Join me next time on my new series, called "I Am Smarter Than You."
I'm a simple man, I see neon genesis, I watch
This guy straight-up lies when he said episodic anime didn’t really exist before Evangelion.
200th like
Amazing video!
Great. 30 more anime I need to watch. Just great, Digibro.
(okay, but this was legitimately great, thanks for laying out your case so well)
"How Evangelion opened the floodgates for good-ass T.V. Anime until Moe came along and ruined everything"
GR3ND3L_1999 there was moe in the 80's
But moe is pretty much dead nowdays. Word "moe" is dead nowdays in japan
I don't like Eva but gotta agree, moe anime is trash and people who watch it are desperate neets
Lol please
Evangelion is the most moe anime ever made.
4:27 Anno and Ikuhara working together on episodes of sailor moon?
God joined the server
Loved the video. A list of all the animes shown would be nice too.
I was not expecting Generator Gawl to be in this video, but good job mentioning this hidden gem!
In western terms: We only got Logan because Deadpool was successful.
Digibro, loved your video!
Would you ever consider doing a video of small reviews on all anime aired at Locomotion? That channel on sattelite TV was *LEGENDARY* to me when I was younger because I did not have access to it for long, but what I had, I still hold in very fond memories. Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Cowboy Bebop, Arjuna, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop Phantom, Alexander Senki, Æon Flux, Eat-Man and Eat-Man '98, Gasaraki, GeneShaft, Blue Submarine no.6, Birdy the Mighty, and so many other shows.
Could you please?
Thanks for another awesome video! Now I'm off to explore a whole facet of anime I've never bothered with before!
dude im so glad i found your channel'
If u think Evangelion is confusing, watch Serial Experiments Lain.
Lain made a lot more sense to me than Evangelion. I think Eva is overrated and has more plot holes than swiss cheese.
@@MagnificentSkim Plot holes? Which ones?
Watch Primer...
@@pinecone5551 Some common (but still fairly concrete) plot complaints I see thrown about:
- The lack of basic psychiatric support for NERV pilots/staff
- Why no mood altering drugs are ever used on the pilots (mostly since Gendo comes off as the "by any means necessary" type)
- The lack of any sort of training/preparation for Shinji/Toji/other pilot candidates despite all of Gendo's/NERV's resources (Asuka clearly received some, Rei almost certainly did, but no one else?)
- SEELE's near-complete forecast of events/The Dead Sea Scrolls (named, but never elaborated on outside of fringe supplementaries, very convenient)
- Why the Eva/Pilot system is needed at all if things like Jet Alone & dummy plugs exist and 3rd Impact can be triggered using captured angels + clones with angel souls from before the creation of Evas
- How Gendo devised his own way to trigger 3rd Impact (since The Dead Sea Scrolls appear to be the only source of info on it and there's no indication that Gendo ever has access to them)
- "A 0.000000001% chance" quickly becoming code for "this crazy thing will successfully happen/work 1st try"
- EVA-00's soul (since Rei has no mother and is a series of clones sharing one soul if the "Chamber of Guf closed" dialogue tied to her creation is to be taken by any conventional meaning, including how EoE later uses it)
- The workings of the 2nd Impact (beyond "humans messed with Adam and he became light but we did a thing that didn't involve Evas but involved the Lance of Longinus and maybe plugs to revert him into an embryo so it wasn't a total disaster")
- The workings of the 3rd Impact (only if we consider NGE TV on its own, which some people do in conversation)
Personally I'm aware that at least some of things have explanations somewhere, but mostly outside the original series and its context. I can't blame people for wanting it to be complete with these points either.
@@T_K7 I don't find most of these complaints to be valid. Most of these points can be explained through information in the show, not even outside of the show's context but within the show itself. And the other points can be chalked up to mysteries for the sake of mysteries, which I don't find to be a problem as long as they provide speculation, aren't extremely important, and don't contradict the logic of the universe. The soul of Unit 00 debate is a perfect example of this, and the fanbase generally agrees that Unit 00 has Rei I's soul. However, yeah, it is somewhat ridiculous that NERV has no psychiatric support, but Gendo is a complete asshole and he runs the business so whatever, I guess it's in character for him.
Also, I wrote that comment 10 months ago, and I have changed my mind. There is one plot hole in Eva. In episode 2, Seele describes that the attack from the 3rd Angel was unexpected, just like the 2nd impact that happened 15 years ago. Seele should have already known about the 3rd Angels attack due to the Dead Sea Scrolls, but more importantly, Seele were the people that caused 2nd impact, it was no accident. This blantant plot hole is clearly only hear because the plot changed throughout production, and I'm not particularly bothered by it tbh.
2:02 8:18
Really quick but really important correction: While Bandai did buy out Sunrise, the Brave series had nothing to do with Bandai at the time, Brave was a partnership between Sunrise and Transformers co-creators Takara, while the mecha show before the time stamp was Eldran, a collaboration between Sunrise and Tomy of Zoids fame.
Really good video :)
Damn goosebumps all over the video. Thanks for reminding me of these stunning shows like The Big O, Lain, Texhnolyze, Argento Soma, RahXephon, Blue Gender, Ergo Proxy, and also thanks for reminding me of ones I still ought to watch.
I fucking love NGE, and honestly, the wait for 3.0+1.0 Rebuild movie is just killing me.
Digi: "Code Gay Ass"
Me: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
So what you're saying is, Eva literally saved anime.
ARandomGuy imo it’s just a good show but it did not save it
No, it just changed it. It wasn't really a bad for anime before evangelion but it was completely different.
As Anno intended
Jojo in the background standing menacingly
This is such an awesome video. It just brings so many more thoughts into my head. Namely: what made it possible for Evangelion to exist in the first place? What are all of these 80s/early 90s OVAs that I've literally never heard of and where can I watch them? I really hope you make a sequel to this
The fact that we are still talking about this series 20 plus years later is a testament to how impactful it was and still is. As a creator myself, Eva really inspires me to push my own art as far as possible. It was brave, daring, creative, and inspiring as hell. It will forever be one of my fav anime of all time.
Now and Then, Here and There is fucking insane and depressing and I love it.
I think Evangelion not only altered, but also ( positively ) influenced the world of anime itself, practically around the 80 and 90's. Since Evangelion dives around more mature themes such as human's inner psyche, dark and relatable to the viewers. Loneliness, emotions, experiences and reality.
From my experience and possible, anyone who has watched the ( original ) Evangelion series, it leaves with a sense of dread and questioning about your existence and identity in the world.
Awesome video
Hands down one of the best Eva analysis videos of all time. I've literally watched this 53 times now.
1:30 was about to mention about Gundam before Eva, dude Gundam broke the super robot convention by telling a human story about war, coming of age, and politics with the most realistic robots seen at that time. But thanks for mentioning Gundam, you really know your anime, ofc i never doubted you.
I feel like the main difference between their influence is that while Gundam was influential, it's influence was mainly on other mecha anime. Thanks to it we got Macross, Votoms, Patlabor and eventually Evangelion itself. But Evangelion just had influence on tv anime in general and in fact I think it allowed the medium to explore other genre a bit more.
Oh I don't discredit the significance of eva in anime. I agree, eva broke convention by telling an original story directed by a visionary who's uncompromised vision (save for budget) pushed the medium to new heights. We can thank mainly Yamato for Gundam. Regardless of the era, there were truly paramount anime. I'm afraid to say anime theses just arent the same. I'm very opposed the direction anime is going. The newest anime that made an impact on me was gundam thunderbolt, but I'm probably a bit biased :p I have yet to watch your name though.
> I'm very opposed the direction anime is going.
How come? I'd say more genre, narrative and visual variety in anime is always a great thing. There have been a lot more experimental anime since the mid-90s. I mean do you imagine someone like Masaaki Yuasa or Kunihiko Ikuhara in the 80s?
FINALLY, a Evangelion video
Well, less ABOUT Eva and more on it's impact on the medium. But still.
an*
THANK YOU! SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!
The anime industry today focuses way too much of making niche, otaku pandering schlock and too little on making creative shows.
thank you very much for making this great critical analysis on the importance of Evangelion to the anime industry, much respect
This just gave me so many new shows to watch. i wish he included sometihng in the discription that listed all referenced shows so that i don't have to go through and find them.
He did basically state the anime while showing it though
Evangelion fucked me up...I'll never regret watching it.
I did enjoy this video!
i'm so happy you mentioned noir it's a hidden gem
I would really enjoy if you where to talk about the impact of Akira in the US and the effect that it had to successfully sell anime in America
I grew up In Japan, I still watch sazae San, kureyon shinchan and Maruko chan. Most of u probably have never herd of this, I was surprised the Japanese mainstream anime was extremely different from internationally mainstream. (Btw R.I.P. To Maruko chan's voiceactor)
Yuzu Trash I'm an american and I only know these shows because I like to look up old and obscure anime oddities. It is kinda interesting to see how different animes are popular in different countries
The thing is that the west has programs for the audience that those target. So we don’t have the demand for them, and the demand for media in the west might be more niche in Japan.
I keep coming back to the video to remember some of the other series that were mentioned post-Eva. I only caught Cowboy Bebop & Lain back around that time... definitely want to binge watch some of these others! A great video sir.
Boogiepop Phantom deservers your time. You should watch the new Boogiepop anime before that. Or, even better, read the first, the second and the fourth novel.
The history of my life can be broken down into two big eras: Pre-Evangelion and Post-Evangelion
-Haven't watched Evangelion.
-Probably never will.
-Still interesting.
Sign of a good video.
Gard Ronningsdalen you should watch it. Unless you're like 88 where you are so removed from being a teenager where you can't relate to the emotions of teenagers.
Cyba I think you can relate to it at any age. The character or characters you relate with might change with time but fundamentally EVA is about human interactions. It's about the despair loneliness and being unable to understand people brings. If you take anything from this series let it be the "hedgehogs dilemma". It's singlehandedly the most important theme in the series and can be seen in the writing and metaphorically in the animation.
You should. Misato remains one of my favorite (and most fucked up) deuteragonists of all time.
リンク 天皇陛下 you can lead a horse to good anime, but you can't make him watch it.
Evangelion reminds me a lot of David Lynch films. If you just go into it expecting it to be pretentious bullshit because of the people who hate it, you will go out of it feeling just as you expected. But if you go into it with a neutral mind, you'll realize it's great and not pretentious. Honestly the way NGE has been received in the west is so weird, it's like the most hipster thing to like and the most hipster thing to dislike haha.
Take a shot everytime digi says, "flood gates."
So you and Eye Patch Wolf Uploaded an Evangelion piece the same week? Christmas hit early!!
Ive never heard of any of these and now i want to watch them all!
I've been waiting for this since Tracing the lineage of Cowboy Bebop
15:05 *"Code Gay Ass"*
This video was really 16 minutes of anime recommendations for me...GREAT!
i gasped when i saw you mention utena and give it some attention! its such an underrated anime!!! i love it soooo much and it makes sense that the director from sailor moon worked on it as well the vibes are similar haha lol
I really wonder what you do after influencing the medium you work in that much. I don’t think anyone can really imagine that happening.
15:05 "Code Gay-Ass"
Thank you Digi!!!! I could NOT REMEMBER what The legend of black heaven was called. I saw it only twice and always in the middle of the episode. So I never could find out what it was called. Thank you
I had to pause the video when you mentioned The Daichis. It was my first "real" anime, and for 12 years I've thought that nobody else had ever heard of it.
Weird-ass goddamn show with seemingly no filter at all, I remember it very fondly.