Neon Genesis Evangelion Is A Great Giant Monster Series
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Neon Genesis Evangelion pulls from many different sources and one of the biggest influences on the series is classic tokusatsu like Ultraman. Let's look at the show in a tokusatsu light and see what it has to offer.
That clip of the interviewer over reacting to Anno’s ultraman’s nerd trivia is the best thing ever.
That's actually Matsumoto Hitoshi, one of the greatest japanese comedians and he himself a big fan of Ultraman. He even directed and starred in the movie Big Man Japan, itself a tribute to tokusatsu and kaiju movies.
Just finished the original anime last night. It's lifechanging.
Anno's depictions of the background activity of NERV and civilian casualties with Evangelion, and how he wants to shift Shin Ultraman's focus onto the Defense Forces feels very much in line with his political disaster/satire of Shin Godzilla. Keeping the worlds of his projects grounded in their human errors.
That’s honestly what I hope to see from Shin. I honestly never felt that in any previous attempt to “ground” or Ultraman (Nexus, The Next, the Marvel comics), rather they just aesthetically “mature” the Defense Force while keeping a lot of the trope-y nature from the past.
I’d be happy if Anno and Higuchi explored the minutiae of monster attack force in Shin; it would go a long way to make a reimagining of Ultraman more believable.
@@KKAkuoku He's really grounding it into being a part of the larger defense force that seems like it's a department that likely doesn't have the support or importance it deserves that will eventually *become* something like the SSSP. I wouldn't be surprised though if like in "Shin Godzilla" he's making a political statement about Japan's military, parodying the United States' kind of spending going to waste when their best defense against alien threats is a guy with the Beta Capsule.
While not my favorite, I’ve come to appreciate Ierul as despite not being the most flashy Angel, it’s honestly one of the most efficient Angels. Also imagine if Ierul took over Jet Alone? How would that go?
6:11. The actresses for Rei and Asuka are these background characters.
A quirk of the original performance; some of the seiyuu played extras throughout. Most dubs did not have this problem, but this utilitarian approach in performance is just interesting to know about.
I'm not sure I have a favorite angel, but do you know what an evangelion looks like without it's armor?
The angel it resembles the most would be Sachiel, the first angel in order of appearance, with it's humanoid body plan and massively exaggerated shoulders and tiny waist.
Intentional or not, this feels like some powerful foreshadowing for many revelations later in the series.
The best bit of lore would have to be the evidence suggesting that Kaworu took on the appearance of Misato's father because he injected his own DNA into Adam for similar reasons; it creates a powerful resonance between different parts of the story.
Favorite and best Angel has to be Ramiel. It's appearance is so unexpected, different, and incredibly powerful. It throws any preconceptions about what these things are and what they can do out the window. An entire episode is devoted to defeating it, and NERV has to channel massive resources into its destruction, only barely doing so. Then it's "corpse" looms over Tokyo for episodes thereafter
10:29 As seems in the brief trailer, seems like Anno will indeed focus on the EDF in Shin Ultraman. Great video!
speaking of Ultraman, the design of Ultraman Noa from Ultraman Nexus suspiciously resembles an Evangelion and he is based on Noah of the Noah's Ark.
Ultraman Nexus is my favorite ultra show. Love it's ongoing narrative, darker tone, and focus on character stories.
Great video man! Zeruel and Lilth God Rei were definitely my favorites. Zeruel was a powerhouse and God Rei was beautiful but terrifying at the same time. One of my favorite story developments was finding out that the Evas are living flesh beings cloned from the angels. I remember being so invested with the story that I binged it all in like 2 days way back in 2008 lol
It's such a shame that Eva is the most famous anime ever and yet none of the fans have heard of Ultraman. Or if they have they write it off as bad because it isn't animated.
I watch Ultraman before Evangelion, and i Love both Series!
Glad this is back up! I went to watch it yesterday and it was down. Thanks for the great content as always!
Name of the first song in this video?
"Background Music II" from NGE's Soundtrack
Neon Genesis Evangelion is better than Shin Godzilla, Change my mind
You know holmes, you're one of the few people I've been able to find who have been able to both entertain, and educate in the perfect ratios to make these playlists and videos enjoyable.
I look forward to more content, and of course, your amazing voice.
Eva definitely borrows heavily from Tokusatsu, but the concept of giant monster vs giant robot is that of classic 70s super robot anime shows à la Mazinger Z. In Mazinger you have doctor Hell's mechanical monsters attacking Tokyo, and the Photon Power Laboratory sending their robots from the underground to protect the city; in Eva you have Nerv's Evangelion fighting the Angels in Neo-Tokyo-3. Anno said in a discussion with Yutaka Yuzubuchi that the original intent for the series was that of making a modern version of classic super robots. Of course, he also took inspiration from many other works, especially Tokusatsu, and then turned the series into something else.
Hey mate great video!
From which movie is the clip you were showing at 09:16?
You should check out Shingu Secret of the stellar wars anime.
About the Angels: they're actually called "shito" in Japanese, which translates to "Apostles". Many things in the world of Eva that are called differently in Japanese than they are in their English counterpart, which adds a sense of mystery. Part of that is lost in translation, as the linguistic dualism is taken away in most localizations of the series.
Correct. Though allegedly it was an Anno/Gainax decision to use "angels" for English translations.
@@Blunovain yes, that was explained in the old commentary to the first episode of the series in its first American dvd edition. There seems to be no such request from Gainax for other localizations, yet the "shito" are called "angels" in every other language, as far as I know. The only version which kept the linguistic dualism of the series was the first Netflix Italian dub; too bad that localizion was god awful for a plethora of reasons, forcing Netflix to remake the dub, but that's a story for another day.
Evangelion is likely one of my favorite if not the favorite media ever (although it fiercely fights that spot with Dorohedoro), for many of the reasons mentioned here, I see it less as an anime and more as an animated tokusatsu
As for favorite Angel, it gotta be the two major game changers: Ramiel and Zeruel
Ramiel effortlessly shows that Angels can look like literally anything, be unassuming even, while still being incredibly deadly and unpredictable in how they perform, something that is later escalated with Leilel, Armisael and Tabris; it also helps that Ramiel is almost successful in its mission to reach "Adam"
Zeruel in a way follows in the steps of Ramiel, being the second most successful in its main goal and mission, but bringing back the mindless brutality of the likes of Sachiel or Bardiel, but amped up to eleven, not to mention that its attack also leads to one of the most striking, shivering and absurd moments of the TV series
I decided to rewatch the whole series before I finally go into the fourth Rebuild film, got to episode 3 as you upload this. Sure it is a giant monster show! What really is the difference between a giant robot show and a giant monster show? A giant robot can fight a giant monster or a different giant robot. Maybe I'm oversimplifying things but to me the point seems redundant. Not saying its a bad video - some of the best things in life are redundant! I can't really get tired of discussing Evangelion.
My take on the specific narrative sctructural action part of evangelion: every battle is short. Which makes every action taken by the opponents very important and with high stakes but also: every fight is unique. What is needed for each enemy is different each time. Sometimes more based on the tropes of giant robots and dai kaijus (specially on the first episodes) and more experimental in other instances. This is for me a very classy aspect of the show. Like a gourmet restaurant giving each taste its own moment and space.
I guess zeruel is my favorite. I like the design and he’s pretty tough to Beat.
This is no joke the most refreshing take on Evangelion.
Once again great video!! Anno's ambition and passion for tokusatsu is really inspiring. Where is that shot at 14:38 from? looks like a documentary but the scenery, light and lens flares make it almost seem like it's from some work by Anno
Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion. It's free on Amazon Prime.
Great video!
So rare for UA-camrs to use Japanese audio when talking about anime.
Can I make a video about how unlike in American media, Anno and others made it big off their own works instead of remakes and reboots.
Before Anno remade Eva into water down films that end with it telling everything to go outside and stop watching Anime
Wait, didn't this got uploaded this morning ?
Yeah. But had to resolve some issues and reupload it.
@@Blunovain ah I see,geuss it is what it is then
@@John_winston Sorry about the double notification.
@@Blunovain woah it's alright no big deal,in fact I able to watch it the second time to understand it better so thanks too
My favorite episode in Evangelion is when Evangelion going berserk and eat the angel.
Although the religious themes are superficial, I remember someone else pointing out that knowing the names of Jewish angels before the era of Wikipedia searches probably means you're a bigger nerd about the subject than you'd normally like to admit.
are you going to make a video review about ultraman mebius any time soon?
the main reason i watched eva was for the angels
I'd say Evangelion is not about giant monsters at all...they are in it but it is a psychological anime with giant robots/monsters in it
Just like the original Godzilla was a commentary on nuclear weapons with a giant monster in it
Yes, Evangelion is primarily a psychological case study, but just like the religious symbolism, just because the monsters aren't the point doesn't mean the production crew half assed it. They put a ton of effort into the monsters-of-the-week, and I like pretending Eva is just a "really good giant monster mecha" so that the spiral in the second half of the series is a surprise for new people.
@@tomemeornottomeme1864 not sure where you get the half assed part....
they're literally the driving force of the plot
@@funkymonkey2k425 I'd say the psychology of the characters and the relationship of Shinji to other characters and his dad is what Eva is really about. In a large part, it is about Anno and what he was going through psychologically.
But yes, on a superficial level you can just say it is about big ass robots fighting. Whatever your IQ level will allow you to understand.
I'm sorry wtf is this title ??? Have some respect the anime is not about the Eva's there just filler I only watched evangelion for the characters mental breakdown.
Did you not watch the video
@@tomemeornottomeme1864 yeah I waited after the video was over to comment.
@@biggdaddycanelechad2511 and yet you still missed the entire point of the video itself
@@Kaiju-bm4ts what the point of the video pls tell me what I'm missing.
@@biggdaddycanelechad2511 I'll let the title and video do the talking
Personally, Neon Genesis Evangelion is my favorite anime next to Ghost in the Shell and Armored Trooper VOTOMS. Just the sheer amount of epic this anime can bring is almost next level (the only other anime made at roughly the same time with just as much pathos I could think of was Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still).
I have a Giant Robo video dropping within the next few days and The Day the Earth Stood Still gets a lot of coverage in it.