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I don't usually do reviews unless a show really stands out or was super bad. I have only dropped series if it the fan-service has become too much for me and this was the first show I dropped regardless of that. I made it to episode 15 and then stopped fyi.

Story (3).
So the main character was a Piano prodigy but stopped playing after his mum passed away because "he couldn't hear(feel) the music". However a violinist inspires him to start playing the piano again and the story looks promising.
It just goes downhill from there. He (from my perspective) whines about how his mum pushed him ... to play the piano, as the story progresses we see that his mum was quite forceful but I have no sympathy for him. Every athlete, musician or anyone who got to the top of their game made tons of sacrifices and anyone in Asia culturally gets 'pushed' hard. So his complaints as the violinist rightfully states are just excuses for him to stop playing and throw everything that he worked for away.
The story doesn't seem to have anything except this point. He plays in some competitions and his character development is almost as bad/slow as the MC from Neon Genesis. A few new characters who were inspired by his childhood performances are introduced and thats about it - again I haven't watched past ep.15

Art - 2

The art of how their front lips overhang really gets on my nerves and just ruins everything

Sound - 9

I give this a 9 purely because the first op is the best I have ever heard. I was unable to skip it once and that is a first for me. It was probably also the reason I stuck with the show for as long as I did.

Overall - With the exception of the music everything feels bland, this show offers nothing that other shows haven't already given and given sooo much better.
You want a sad anime to cry about and feel sorry for characters? Watch Kimi no na wa(Your Name) or A Silent Voice. Watch Code Geass.
You want something to inspire you to get you back in the spirit of your sport/music? Watch Rocky, Karate Kid, Kobra Kai, Hikaru no go or literally ANY SPORT ANIME.

don't watch - but listen to the op cos that was insane!

A good series overall, especially considering when it was created.

There are issues though!

1. The number of times you are watching it, enjoying yourself and then there is a 30 second period where nothing happens or the same words are repeated is just ridiculous.

2. The initial character developments are good, especially on the main character, which turns him from self loathing and semi-useless to an actually likeable human being. However, the series then cancels all of the development as they please and transform him back to useless at random points. To be honest it is just infuriating

3. I honestly don't know who the main antagonist "SEELE" ... is. No explanation is given and we don't even know if they are the antagonist or if it is Shinji's father. The series gives no indication of good or bad nor explains these organisations well enough. The series constantly starts to explain something and then drops the explanation leaving (me anyway) more confused than earlier. E.g. i thought the evangellion were robots, then they had souls, but thats it, no more explantion. I can handle robots, but angel robots with a soul inside etcetc is just confusing without more explanation.

4. They developed some characters and proceeded to just ignore them. These were the 4th child, the class prefect girl and Shinji's friend with glasses. You know what, include the penguin too, i liked the penguin he could have been fun.

5. The ending. Tbh the last two episodes were super confusing and had almost ruined the series for me. BUT, the last part of the episode clears up a lot of what happens. But if one final episode just to clarify had been released it would have been so much better. Was shinji in some kind of simulation from the start? Did he die and that was his final moment of thought (realising that he had done the right thing and would finally be loved as he always wanted)

Good parts of the series:

1. the storyline is really good, and has interesting philosophical concepts in them.

2. The battles, while frustrating at times as the standard "we lost connection to evangellion" always hapens they are full of suspense. Its not the standard instakilling of bad guys, but stuff goes wrong and leads to character development and is entertaining overall.

Seeing other reviews, I guess this isn't a popular opinion but this movie sucks.
It's more confusing than inception and not in a good way. The ending leaves you more unsatisfied than after finishing the neon genesis series and watching FMA (non-brotherhood).

Spoilers below
Honestly what is going on? Maybe I missed something, but Shinji, is all of a sudden a spineless pleb again, making all of his character development in the neon genesis series worthless. On top of that, I don't understand what is going on in the action scenes. There is never anything conclusive to say whether a characater is dead or not, and the SEELE ... organisation is still shady with no further explanation as to who they are. Are NERV the "good guys" or are SEELE? They all seem to want to destroy mankind but are fighting against each other or something
And then the story ends with "Shinji is doomed to float around space as the only remaining living thing for all eternity". WHAT THE ACTUAL BEEP? There were so many opportunities to have a good ending, either the happy fun type, with defeating SEELE or finding out who creates the angels and a final conclusion on shinji and asuka/rei. Or a darker where they they do die, but not in the weird messed up way that makes no sense.