Evangelion: 2.0 was finally playing in town this past weekend, so I made it a point to check it out on the big screen. I was a little worried that the nerds would be out in full force, but Evangelion is such a big deal in Japan that normal people actually turned up for the premier. Go figure. While 1.o was more of a flashy retelling of the television series' first story arc, 2.0 turned out to be something entirely different; new characters, new Eva units, ridiculous animation, more streamlined storytelling and character development...dare I say, the finest thing to come out of Eva canon, ever. Without spoiling too much, newcomer Mari manages to be thoroughly interesting and entertaining without butting into the Shinji/Rei/Asuka dynamic, and to top things off, we even get a few glimpses of Kaworu's badass Eva Mark.06.
One last interesting thing was Anno's decision to repeatedly use Kare Kano music in any of the school scenes. While this could be construed as laziness on the part of the producers, it's a little hard to complain about lack of imagination when that familiar soundtrack helps to bring together those classroom exchanges as well as it does.
Not sure what direction 3.0 will take, but I certainly hope that the release comes sooner than later.
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Cool! Sounds like Eva is still alive in Japan
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