Evangelion overrated?
Depends how you look at it.... it had a good comedy factor and some cool battles, but if you're looking for more than that you're in the wrong place.
Of course, that's my view of it..all tha psycho s*** killed it totaly...actually it started to die even before that, but that was the final nail in the coffin.
I have all of those prequesits and I still think it's pretty poop.
2D charachters in anime? Hell, anime charachters have usually more depth that half the charachters from the latest block-busters of teen shows or anything that comes of out Holywood in general!
Why is the automatic argument for most people in favor of anime is "Well Hollywood is worse" - so what? Does something else being worse somehow make the other one not bad? That's like saying that Bang! Gunship Elite wasn't bad because Daikatana was worse. It doesn't hide the fact that 99.9% of anime characters have no personality.
Not only that, but a lot of American cinema still has better characters anyway. Now, I'm not saying that all anime is bad or with 2D characters (Macross, the original Gundam, Ghost in the Shell, Evanglion, etc), but a lot of them are. And anime makers nowadays don't seem to grasp that; a lot of people's idea of an "innovative" and "incredible" anime are ones with storylines so complex and wrapped up in themselves that it's impossible to understand - not with good characters or what not, just a convoluted storyline (a good example being Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - although the characters are good, take a look at the last episode in the series, it falls victim to the Matrix's "Evil Colonel Sanders" routine and spends most of the time with high handed blabbering).
Of course, the lowest by-products of anime are utterly awfull, and they are in 90% of cases made for comedy, but you can't judge only by those.
But you're judging by the big 80% of American cinema that's throw-away one shot trash, why can't I do the same with the 90% of anime? I'm not trying to turn this into an America vs. anything, I'm just using Hollywood as an example because, with possibly the exception of Bollywood (in India) and anime, it is one the largest producer of visual entertainment in the world. Anyway, a lot of anime is trash, which is why when something like Evanglion comes along, they hold it so high up on a pedestal - because they don't have anything else to compare it to.A comparable example would be Halo 1 on the Xbox: Xbox magazines ranted and raved about it, because they had no other good FPSs for the Xbox to compare it to. Once Halo 1 came to the PC though, it was pretty much forgotten, because we have better things to compare it to and play.
