 If you liked
Shinseiki Evangelion
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Gunslinger Girl
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Both concern the dehumanization of children. Throughout either show, one witnesses the characters' psychological, and in some cases moral, disintegration, caused by a surfeit of episodic challenges. That being said, however, one may argue that Gunslinger Girls presents a stronger exhibition of a human's nature to do good, while Neon Genesis Evangelion is more an example of the cynical, distrusting constitution.
In Gunslinger Girl and Neon Genesis Evangelion the main characters are adolescent children fighting for some shady semi-government organizations. In both series it leads to all kind of mental problems and weird relationships. Also some plot elements and themes appear in both series. If you liked this title you most probably like the other.
P.S. In both series the organizations are very twisted and do almost anything to achieve their goal. In my opinion the gals from Gunslinger Girl, for some reason, seem like a combination of the Eva pilots and Eva Units.
At first glance, it seems pretty weird to link NGE with Gunslinger Girl, but on a deeper analyse you realize that these two anime are alike, and a lot.
If we go deeper, we see that Gunslinger Girl tried to recreate NGE's most interesting points. All the characters from the girls to the grown up go through a hard psychological struggle on what is right and what is wrong, and about the organization they work for. While the characters fight, the fights lose meaning as we are more focused on the characters' struggle and how they will come out of the deppression pits they are in.
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Even through there are less variety of characters in GG, the show is also about the characters, their development and their role in the world. People get shot, bleed, die, and psychically break even without the presence of giant mechas or otherworldly beings.
There's the same attention to details as in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Military vehicles, guns, structures and art are far from being unrealistic.
Plot is equally absorbing but less complicated, at least as far as Season 1 goes.
A must watch for any NGE fan.