Reviewing this anime is tricky. The beginning and middle of the show is great, but later episodes make a sudden--and at times extreme--shift. Budget issues forced the creators to take a highly experimental approach, which some viewers may find off-putting and others may find intriguing.
The anime is an interesting deconstruction of the mecha genre; it stops to consider what it might be like for child soldiers to enter the battlefield, with humanity's survival riding on their shoulders. Many of the characters are implied to have PTSD and are severely damaged. The three main characters, Shinji, Asuka, and Rei, all face immense psychological obstacles.
Early episodes are
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