Rebuild of Evangelion: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE Episode 1 Discussion

Mizorui said:
Very good remake.

insan3soldiern said:
I don't know what to think. On one hand the fight scenes were cool, but I feel as though the depth of the characters was greatly sacrificed. It doesn't help that one of my favorite episodes at the beginning of the series, number 4, was pretty much completely cut out.

It also surprised me that Lilith was revealed so early, that could be interesting in the latter movies. Also, in some ways I like the new shinji but one of the best things about Eva has to be how the viewer is quite literally put in the main character(s) head. But, that was rarely the case here and it bothers me.

The last fight was cool and could be considered an improvement, except for the fact that this is a movie and, thus, the theater goers had to have some sort of finality. Whereas, the tv series had an episode the next week and so it didn't really have to be as dramatic.

Still, the Eva story was, and still is, really good. Shinji is still, basically, Shinji and Rei is still Rei, and Misato is still Misato. On that note, Misato actually seems to have a much better relationship with Shinji in this movie.

Of course, the thing that really worries me is how Asuka will be treated in the next movie.

8/10

I’ve forgotten this sound of cicadas sound, lol so much time passed since I watched NGE for the last time... or did it?
And the reworked Shinji... they’ve made him exactly like befor, except for the part that the quality is much better now. I just can do nothing more than enjoy animes with such good Blue-Ray quality
The Rei vision... whoah, what was that?
The reworked Angel... yeah, definitely the high definition is... HIGH! He looks way better now.
The effects are just too good either. I don’t think I’ve watched better-looking explosions to now(considering I’ve just seen the first Angel battle, lol). Now this is how mecha anime should look like.
Not sure if it’s from the Blue-Ray qualilty, or Misato’s ass is really hot, lol :D
I’ve forgotten of Shinji’s constant excuses -.-
And EVA-01 is plain badass – not that he wasn’t before, but...
Ok, it’s hard not to admit it – the battle between 4th Angel and EVA-01 was badass as awesome as can be... In the original series fights were kind of shabby(well, except for the End of Evangelion part of ‘em), but if NGE now has battles with quality from this range... I doubt that anyone can argue that it’s not the best Mecha anime-story.
“Are you sure about using your son? His mental state seems to be very unstable.” – this is the best description on Shinji I’ve ever heard -.-
“Sorry transfer kid. I had to hit ya.” – epic line is epic!
Ok, the fifth angel is well designed too.
Now, when the fights aren’t this shabby it’s way better to see what’s actually happening during the battles.
But I can’t really argue that Shinji did quite well during the fight against the 5th Angel.
Shinji really looks epicly with headphones on when he was far away from the city, doesn’t he?
I’ve always liked Rei very much, but now she’s even better-looking, and I’m somehow managing to like her even more than before!
6th Angel is well-designed too. And he seems to have even stronger firepower than the previous ones. I really remember that he was one real pain in the ass back in the series. But I wonder how the Bombardeer Angel’s destructions would look like(can’t remember if it was the 8th Angel or so).

1. Characters. +1 Of course, EVA's most important aspect was always the characters - like they're nothing typical. I think that there's no point in commenting the characters all over again(I already did it for NGE). But a few notes - Rei Ayanami was presented in a slightly better way than in NGE, and I think that this is for good. First I thought that we'll get preview on Asuka too, but I guess she'll be the main flavor in the next movie.
2. Atmosphere. +1. Nonetheless, the atmosphere was always strong part of EVA, and I re-entered the feeling just with one hearing of the cicadas' sound(lol I'll probably remember them for my whole life).
3. OST. +1. I liked the ED(I don't remember any OP) and there were some tracks present besides the ED - I liked them too, I even think that they were 100% fitting the moment.
4. Animation. +1. Well if there was anything that I didn't like much about NGE(besides it's ending) was the animation designs - I know that back then the studio that worked on the series was low on budget, but still most of the Angels had horrible designs - unlike now. There wasn't single bit of this anime's animation style that I didn't like. If I've watched this movie first, I'd have barely been able to see NGE to it's end - the contrast between the art styles is just too great!
6. Storyline. +1. Storyline was never bad aspect of NGE. 1.0 followed kept the plot/story like 90% close to the original one and I have nothing against that. Although, I wonder why SEELE keeps Lilith as prisoner in this version, it was Adam who was captive in NGE far as I can remember.
7. Ending. +1. The director decided to end this movie after the defeat of the 6th Angel and it's totally ok for me - this was one of my favorite moments in NGE - the first time there were some kind of relationship between Shinji and Rei. Anyway, I never expected the last Angel to appear so early on the scene O.o
8. Fight scenes. +1. Nonetheless, with the new art design, the fights got much better than before - it was like I couldn't say "this was wrong" for any of the fighting scenes. They were just flawless.
9. Drama. +1. Idk if I had to give point here, but there was actually some drama in this part - like what can you say about Shinji's battle with himself? Or Rei's try to have some relationship even if it was with Shinji's father.
10. Overall feeling. +1. And why not? I didn't feel bad about watching this anime even for a single moment, and I'm not saying this because of fanboyism - in my opinion this anime was in fact flawless no matter how you look at it. It's like there's no actual reason that I can score low this anime. This one is just masterpiece - it's true masterpiece.

Overall score: 10/10