huh...sine when did KT have no title at all?
Regardless a review that speaks of Evangelion as mild or bad simply hadn't even tried to grasp the serie.
As far as I know of all the titles you listed Eva is no.1 - for it craved to tell something to show you some value other than entertainment. It did achieve some things, but failed miserably with others. The end of...ect. stuff is just that including all the various teological stuff.
The best stuff is from episode 12-24. The last 2 episodes are for those who try to digest the meaning - but it does not sit well with the story.
The problem with the first part of the story is that after Asuka's appearance it became somewhat lightharted and that could have fooled you.
Eva is not about entertainment - it's a long epic of a tragedy ordinary people suffer when they try to play god - and the price their children have to pay.
It's a film from teh '90 so it was typical to mix a lot of stuff. Actually this serie is an ephitome of that trend.
Even with all its shortcoming the serie has earned a strong 9 in my book.
It's not for entertainment of coolness - it's for the attemt to finally tell us something valueable.
It's not for the faint hearted though.
As for the other two titles:
ROLW is just simple entertainment, it's an ADnD story made a film. Good entertainment and a couple of notable characters but nothing beside it - even the little philosophy at the end (Pawns realisation of his blindness concerning good/evil) is just filler and gets little play.
It's entertainment but nothing more. That's all about it.
It get a mediocre 7 from me.
VoE is another title I like.
It has some very good stuff:
Cool battles, and well written characters and a notable disdain of the common good-vs.-evil theme that amercian/western pop-culture tries to enforce as canon.
The best parts of this is when the allies turn on each other.
Hitomi is the best character of the show for we're finally given a heroine who's not a sex-idol or a masculine warrior.
She's a yound woman, with lots of teenager tendancies, and still manages to convey the oracle's struggle with faith.
Van is a minor IMHO, for he lacks the depth Htimo has - he's quite 2 dimensional throughout the show.
Dilandu is the next best character orher than Folken - the well portreyed anathonists dissolve our idea of usual fairytale.
The whol Atlantis stuff is just not strong enough, but the underlying problem of free action against fate provides some good substitute.
Escaflowne is the only thing that can bring life to Fan and in the end it is his struggle to understand his mecha that saves him from being written of as another arche-typic hero of the day.
Alll in all the show has its good moments, but in the end it's still minor entertainment with little underlying message.
Still it has value, story, good characters and drama.
It earned a valuable 8 from me.
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