![]() Once again, this is mostly a western phenomena, as in Japan it’s still extremely popular and highly praised. In fact, saying you like it in certain places, you might as well call yourself a snob. Critical Dissonance: Has been almost unanimously positively reviewed by professional anime/manga critics, yet it's a very divisive series within the world of anime fandom (in the west anyway), partly due to the very dark tone, a dysfunctional cast, and an ending that was hard for many to understand, among others.By the start of the 2020's, openly admitting to liking NGE generally became more acceptable again, partly because of this and partly because most of its former detractors simply moved on from it. Critical Backlash: Throughout the 2000's and early 2010's, championing Evangelion as the most overrated and pretentious show in the world ended up becoming a more commonplace cliché than actually liking it in the open, which resulted in a lot of people becoming more annoyed with that than any praising it got.And just like Grant, some detractors complained about her voice being unfit for a younger girl, while others genuinely liked her performance, especially later on in the series, considering that, unlike both the original Japanese, the English dub and later Spanish dubs, she also spiced the dialogue with lots of German profanities and words. This is partly because she was likely cast as Asuka due to the fact she was the only Mexican voice actress at the time able to speak German in a fluent way, despite Echevarria being an older voice actress at the time, and she was normally typecasted into voicing adult or mature, motherly voices, and not kids like Asuka, something she received a lot of flak for at first. The same goes double for the same character in the first Latin American Spanish dub used by Locomotion and her voice actress, the late Norma Echevarria.Her performance, like the rest of the dub, has become somewhat Vindicated by History by her improved performances as Asuka in the Rebuild English dubs as well as Stephanie McKeon's performance in the Netflix dub being considered by some to be dull and generic in comparison. Fans find her voice endearing, appreciate her more over-the-top histrionics and more fluent German than in the original, and consider Grant to be the definitive voice for Asuka (despite being a dubbed version), while detractors find that she sounds too old, note Grant was around 28-29 when first recording Asuka's voice, which regardless is far from unusual, scratchy, whiny and generally annoying. The performance of Tiffany Grant, Asuka's English voice actress, is this for some.Like First Installment Wins below, however, the anime is still considered the overall better product. This and things like Shinji manning up significantly and being much more functional, and plot changes and alterations here and there divided fans between which adaptation was better. Starting initially as a modified adaptation of the anime around the time the series started, Schedule Slip took it two decades to finish with a story that ends up with a radically different conclusion. Beyond the conflicts of the fanbase over Rebuild of Evangelion, the manga also gets this.Word of God lampshaded these wars in an old interview, saying that Rei lost her mystery after becoming known to fans. However, in recent years due to a change in perspective and Asuka receiving more spotlight, the tide turned to put Asuka in a higher position, where she’s beaten Rei in several of more recent polls. For a while, at least according to old popularity polls and Anime-related cultural impact, it would seem that Rei was winning this war. As the name would suggest, for a long time fans used to fight each other over which girl is better, as well as which one is the better suited for Shinji. ![]() The infamous Best Girl wars between Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley Soryu (carrying over to Shikinami as of the Rebuild continuity).It doesn't help that some like to attach Evangelion to other series that copy it. In the west, the divide continues between those still singing Neon Genesis Evangelion's praises and those who feel it hasn't aged particularly well. ![]() It was like Gainax was pulling out all the stops to compensate for the original ending's Limited Animation. ![]() Even the more visceral and gory moments are beautifully animated, with Asuka's fight with the MP Evas taking the cake. The End of Evangelion also easy qualifies.Most of the fight scenes of the anime are very visually impressive, especially considering the production issues the show faced.
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