review - mecha anime turned weird

i recently finished watching the entire neon genesis evangelion series. back in college, i loved this anime. i remember walking from my dorm to movie image every weekend to rent anime movies, and dubbing them using my own vcr and the vcr i would borrow from the building. i slowly built up a small collection of anime series, but evangelion was always my favorite.

watching it a second time, i relived the fascination i remembered from the past, as well as the disappointment i had forgotten. it starts off great, fast paced, cool mecha, funny characters, but slowly evolves into a psychological analysis of the protagonist. reading the wiki article reveals that the creator may have been attempting some deep symbolism, but i just wanted to see cool robots fighting stuff.

overall good, but i can no longer highly recommend it as it left me wanting more (and not in the good way).