![]() Neon Genesis Evangelion was critically acclaimed and beloved on its release (aside from the last two episodes, which were to put it mildly, controversial) both because it was a dense work of psychological fiction and because people could recognize it as a genuine artistic achievement. The anime was always apt, but in the two decades since the original series was first broadcast on TV Tokyo, it’s become the ideal anime for our time thematically, the series is about the awful courage needed to stop an oncoming apocalypse, and what the people charged with protecting everyone else are obliged to cope with. Watching Neon Genesis Evangelion in 2019 is fascinating for a number of reasons - namely, seeing what a new generation of people will make of the show - but the most interesting is the new world it’s been released back into. ![]() Neon Genesis Evangelion has returned for a second life on Netflix, legally available for the first time in a couple decades.
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