![]() Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project is a manga. Right? Right?! Boy, they were proved wrong. 22 years later, Eva is still going strong- even as a set-in-school comedy! The Omnibus: Neon Genesis Evangelion And also that it will always only appeal to a certain demographic. While the themes presented in the series were largely influenced by Hideaki Anno’s emotional state at the time, nothing changes the fact that Eva is and always will be a mecha series. And by that, I mean teenagers who like robots. ![]() Moving forward, it was somewhat expected by Gainax that the Evangelion series would only appeal to a select few. But that’s honestly how I feel about the original series. In fact, I wouldn’t really call the original series an anime, but an avant-garde work. They were a jumbled mix of psychological and theosophical ideas and concepts. ![]() The original Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes (and movies) were a complex mess. The thing about Evangelion is that its success allows it to expand to more than just its original genre or tone. In fact, I’ve reviewed so many Evangelion-related media for this site that I sometimes lose track of what I wrote or how I felt when I was writing my reviews. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project is something that I’ve been following ever since I was given the first and second omnibuses to review.
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