If I'm not mistaken, I believe EoE is meant to replace episodes 25 and 26

Yeah, like others have mentioned, End of Evangelion is supposedly the "ending" if you would call to it. If you haven't watched End of Evangelion, go watch it right now!

I'm a huge Evangelion fan and reading this fourm topic made me smile like a git. =)

okay, I watched end of evangelion last night

it was very visually appealing, lots of cool disturbing animation sequences (when the white evas started budding rei's face I started actually laughing out loud because it just looked and sounded so fucking stupid ahahah)

it was definitely a good substitution for episodes 25 and 26, but it still felt like they were just adding in random shit hoping people would assume it was deep and meaningful (all those crosses. oh wow. please try harder.)

All in all

it was fun

but would not watch again

Ennea I can't speak for everyone, but most of the people that I know liked Ghost in the Shell because of the well rounded, pretty realistic characters (something that anime needs more of), a well thought out, yet complicated story line that isn't pieced together randomly (NGE), a fantastic soundtrack composed by YOKO KANNO , and, this is a major plus for me, a very visually appealing art style with well rendered backgrounds.

You should download the soundtrack if you don't want to put all the time into watching a new show, the soundtrack is just too fucking good.

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You can't tell me you wouldn't watch a show with this song in it.

I can't speak for anyone else here, but I liked all the violence. I thought the talking got to a point where it was nonsense. The ideas were deep, don't get me wrong; but I didn't like all the pointlessness. They tried to make it sound so deep that it ended up sounding shallow, if that makes sense. ^_^;;

GitS was a pretty consistent, thought out show. I don't see how someone can think Eva is a masterpiece but find GitS to be pointless.

My guess would be despite them both being anime GitS has more western influence whereas Eva is more weeaboo pandering.

Why does everyone love gits so much ?

1. It doesn't run for 500 episodes like the big anime series do

2. It had a planned start and finish

3. It's consistent, thematically honest, has clear direction.

4. It's appealing to people who probably don't like anime that much (which is probably why some anime fans don't care for it)

You had me at Yoko Kanno

I'll give it a try

i started watching the gits last night, it seems pretty good so far

If you don't like GitS, you're simply not smart enough.

Even inspired the matrix.

Yoko Kanno is usually sufficient enough of a reason to watch something tbh, she doesn't tend to accept offers for shit anime either from what I've seen with her as composer. Probably the most adapt anime composer when it comes to tackling such a huge range of styles/genres.

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i might tab this one

Hm well, didn't like the 2 movies but remember some episodes of the series broadcasted on mtv lol, was okay I guess :p Maybe I should watch it as a whole some time. Also: Yoko Kanno is always a good argument! Darker then Black, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebob, all superb!

Lemoncobbler said

pretty realistic characters

Mushishi! Probably the best Animem of all times. At least for me.

Escaflowne was Yoko Kanno too?

My list of things to watch is getting too big

I saw it when I was like 6, and all I remember is the music

i was watching the anime but i ended forcing myself to watch all the episodes plus EoE... and i didn't liked one bit of it haha!

Edit: taking advantage of the topic, anyone here watched all Kara no Kyoukai movies?

JACOB YOU ASS I WAS GOING TO TAB THAT ONE DONT DO IT

I didn't like the older gits movies, but season one is great, watch it immediately

yessss, mushishi, i want to watch that one~ it looks so pretty, i'll watch that one after I finish GITS.

Lemoncobbler said

JACOB YOU ASS I WAS GOING TO TAB THAT ONE DONT DO IT

yours would be fingerstyle anyway, cool your tits