Neon Genesis Evangelion

It's NOT Pokémon.

[asinglesliceofbread]

does anyone else still come back to this video every now and then? i do it ever few months or so - both to continue to pump the views up so that owen will be forced to review the rebuilds, and because it's honestly one of my favorite videos on this platform. something about the change in individual vs community experience just like, resonates really strongly for me :>

[shoogles_]

I am never, ever going to be able to watch or Evangelion again without thinking, "the Squirtle Squad were nowhere to be seen, " fuck sake

[nickbooze]

The Infinite Review IS the Evangelion of internet reviews.

[CaptainHalibut]

I feel you on this. I watched this show years ago alone w/o outside opinion weighing me down and it really emotionally hit me. The struggle of a young boy trying to understand what it means to feel self-love and self-worth, of the fears of rejection from those he loves and thus avoiding people to prematurely soften the blow before it even happens, really impacted me at a point of my life where I was (and still am) fighting through those same feelings. The original ending, to me, was perfect; the show was never about robots, the robots were a plot vehicle for the real story of a boy who doesn’t know how to love himself, and the ending is the climax of that battle. I know people who love the movies, who hate the ending of the original TV show, but the original show and it’s ending, it’s story of loving oneself and living without the constant fear of failure and letting down people you care about, meant so much to me at the time (and even now) that Evangelion is just such a special show to me. I can’t even begin to imagine watching it now and being so tainted by the insanely overactive online community that I would miss out on why that show was so emotional for me at the time.

[Datalore]

I haven't watched this because I'm waiting for a 4 hour "The Infinite Review's Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode Is A Masterpiece and Here's Why" video to tell me if it's good.

[lachiripiolca]

"He's wanking! It's not pokémon" lmao
yeah, in this post-analysis age people expect things to be as optimized as posible, but art is in the wrinkles, art is in the personal style, art is in your script.

[btarczy]

It has gotten to a point for me at which I can‘t really focus on anything anymore. When I watch a YouTube video I read the comments, or worse, write one, when I watch a movie I have another tab open to engage me when I get bored, when I read a book… Who am I kidding? I can‘t even start eating something if there isn’t something in the background.

I don’t know what came first, the depression or the consumption but they sure are good friends. Now it’s just backgrounds layered over backgrounds. Recently I watched Neon Genesis: Evangelion for the first time and I wasn’t even really there. I did it just to do it and I might as well have watched commercials or a video essay.

Thanks for this, Owen! In the hellscape of my media platter this channel is one of the few that makes me stop and think for a second.

[TectonicImprov]

Astounding that there's enough still footage of scenery in Eva to make a ten plus minute video about it without showing any of the characters. Except Pen Pen of course. And Owen's cat. And his second story window.

[_rykos]

This video really resonated with me. Trying to block out spoilers and preconceived notions about games and media is something I have tried to do many times with varying degrees of success.

Obviously, to a large degree it has to do with wanting to form my own opinion about something, but maybe deep down I just want to go back to that feeling as a kid of stumbling upon something new and unknown.

[CaptainHandsome]

More videos need to make me feel guilty for using them as background noise.

[duunchannel]

There's a lot to say about experiencing something in isolation. Most of us who grew up with limited internet access (or none at all) had that one game you spent hours upon hours in, learning every little thing about it and just never getting bored. I used to spend entire evenings in Metal Gear Solid 3 running around the helicopter base, the mountain path, the science lab and so on just screwing around, and it was great. Nowadays, it seems everyone has this huge backlog of stuff to get through and in a way it seems like missing the point. When you start to feel guilty for wanting to replay stuff just because it interferes with your backlog, you know there's probably something amiss with all this.

[JonnyMaxximum]

I've always contested that Grease was far more dense and nuanced than Neon Genesis Evangelion, good on those classmates of yours for understanding true kino.

[thelegalsystem]

Shoutout to my middle school teacher who started a "Japanimation" club and introduced me to Ranma 1/2 and Dai Guard in 2003

[Senthain]

I love how unique Evangelion feels, even if you're familiar with everything that it so obviously takes from. If anything, for me at least, NGE is a testament to just how much raw execution really matters. You can have all of the strange, cool elements to your story and premise all you want; but if you can't stick that landing, why should I even care? It's why that whenever I come back to it, Evangelion hits so hard. There's legitimately nothing else quite like it.

[omgcandyKimicari]

I'm glad the camera operator for this episode was humble enough to stay out of the shot until 10 minutes in.

[Red]

I was forever known as "MacGuyver" by a couple of boys who spotted a Guyver VHS in my bag one day

[sceKernelDestroy]

god damn it, we're still below 50k :(

[DroppedYourSoul]

What struck me, then and now, was the impossibility of it. Like being stuck in a perpetual state of relief, disbelief, and mourning. The feeling when I first viewed it is the same when I watch it now. It is a wormhole filled with tachyons of gratitude. Even more so with the rebuilds being finished. I am astonished that even after dozens of complete viewings, it still manifests that type of wonder in every fiber of my being. It is an aspirational reality.

[NinKieichi]

Christ, I'm glad I'm not the only person who misses the way media used to be digested in a more casual and reflective way. Now there's a pressure to run out the door and see it right away lest it be "ruined", and then I can count on other people to give their knee-jerk reactions whether or not anyone asked for them.

[uziel]

To be honest I found NGE on youtube in the good old times (you could watched entire anime series on yt and nobody gave a shit about it). I watched it. It broke me. It rebuild me. No other piece of media has ever achieve this in my entire life so far. Therefore i never rewatched it because there was no reason for it. I still remember everything and i am going to remember it to the end of my life.