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Thursday, May 20, 2004
rant on evangelion
i must preface this rant with this statement: i truly like evangelion. it is a really good anime. cool story, cool characters, and an air of mystery. angst thrown in for good measure. what's not to like? i recently came across an article on the net that claims that gasaraki is yet another eva clone. that does it. eva, as good as it is, is NOT the end all be all of anime. people are so quick to call any series starring a young person who pilots a mech as an eva clone. why not call it a gundam clone? i think that amuro was the first teen to be forced to pilot a mech that only he could pilot. others claim any series with deep philosophical stories and mechs are eva clones. ever hear of armored trooper votoms? it's an earlier work by ryosuke takahashi, the creator of gasaraki. (SPOILER HERE: the hero kills god in the last episode. as much as i like shinji, i doubt he can top that.) people seem to forget eva borrows as many anime cliches as any other series. gasaraki is a real robot, politically-based drama. yushiro is not a teen. no one fights angels, only political idealists. these two series could not be farther apart. the point? maybe people should watch new series with that same wide-eyed wonder as when they first saw eva rather than claiming everything is ripped off.
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