I always compared final fantasy to gundam
Like
FF8 = Turn a Gundam cause theyâre both revolutionary
FF9 = Gundam seed because theyâre back to the roots stuff
And angst
You canât say that about Turn A Gundam >_>
Tomino and the Mech designers (one of them being Syd Mead of Blade Runner fame) purposely made the mecha âuniqueâ in design so it wouldnât sell as much.
IMO, I like alot of the Gundam titles better than NGE. NGE was great though and quite deep. But Gundam is just more fun to watch for me. NGE the first time through, made me angry. Especially the last two eps. Itâs cool to try interpreting it, but the series sometimes gives me a headache.
Gundam is simpler and more enjoyable to me. Zeta and Turn A are one of the best shows I watched.
(Letâs not mention Wing and Destiny, ok? Those shows just suck major ass)
Itâs good some people here say nice things about gundam
Iâll have to disagree with that. I saw Eva more or less recently (Two years ago) without knowing almost anything about the hype and I share Piersonâs opinion.
Also, let me add another thing to his argument: Gundam tries to present a ârealisticâ vision of war, so when the characters do completely random bullshit it shows a lot. In Eva, the battle against the Angels is never the central point, itâs just an excuse to dissect the charactersâ minds. Since the whole thing is a metaphor, I am much more inclined to let nonsensical situations slide.
/e me refers to the âmaking the point and integrating it are not mutually exclusiveâ comment to reply to Seraphim.
Thatâs just Wing, Seed, and Seed Destiny from what I saw. The universal century series most of the time has very realistic characters.
What?
Also, let me add another thing to his argument: Gundam tries to present a ârealisticâ vision of war, so when the characters do completely random bullshit it shows a lot.
Like blowing up colonies?
In Eva, the battle against the Angels is never the central point, itâs just an excuse to dissect the charactersâ minds.
Yeah but the first 13 episodes are all about how theyâre fighting the angels. At episode 13, like all the other anime, itâs like âOMG plotwistâ
Thatâs just Wing, Seed, and Seed Destiny from what I saw. The universal century series most of the time has very realistic characters.
The Universal Century is also has a tightly woven plot, unlike Eva
I never said that was excusable, I was just explaining why we are more prone to blast Gundam than Eva.
Yeah I know, I was replying to Sinâs comment.
Sheâs a pretty flashy girl. Ops, you mean THAT Evangelion?
The only thing I have to add to this thread is that I wish those girls in bikini would really be in a remake instead of those old angels. But that wonât come true.
Theyâre fighting the physical manifestations of collective consciousnesses, and you think itâs ridiculous that they introduce a German exchange student? You watched the entire series, correct? They explained that NERV was gathering all potential Eva pilots into one place. Shinjiâs entire class could have been drafted. Asuka was already in the Eva program, but in a different country. To simplify things, she was transfered to Japan.
And Rei doesnât âsomehow find her wayâ into school with Shinji, sheâs placed there by Gendou and/or other NERV personnel.
And Evangelion is just centered on Shinjiâs problems. In other words, itâs kiddy-centric. And shinji grows out of his problems at the end and itâs all solved for him. They say congrutations. In the real world, when you have deep psychological problems, they keep coming back
Just because Shinji is a kid doesnât make the show kiddy-centric. Shinji hasnât grown out of his problems at the end, not entirely. How many kids understand what an Oedipus Complex is? And âtheyâ donât say congratulations, unless by âtheyâ you mean the âtheyâ in Shinjiâs mind.
You say you cant compare the two, but youâre saying Eva is more mature, and is thus better, in your opinion. Oh what irony
They did make Evangelion to sell toys. They sell a lot of Evangelion toys. And a lot of little kids do like evangelion
Stop confusing cause and effect, dammit.
Finally, I couldnât care less about Gundam. I donât like it, I donât hate it.
You dont have to like Gundam, just donât act like Eva is so much more godly
And some people think macross is better than everything. Thereâs good grounds to that
Most people that gave gundam a chance beleive itâs better than Evangelion
Speaking of Irony, Basara, werenât you the one who was just saying somethign about Freedom of opinion? Like, you know, the opinion that Eva is much more godly than Gundam?
Anyway, Macross is superior to both Gundam and Eva in many ways, and inferior to them in others, in my opinion. So yes, Iâd say thereâs good grounds for it, but I wouldnât say it had much of anything to do with this topic.
You are making the third thing up. It may be true, but you have no proof of back up of it at all. You are just making shit up.
Anyway, I thought Evangelion was a mess of plotholes and characterization that just went bizarre to avoid showing how poor it was, underneath a thin layer of psychosis that plagued the director, that layer masquerading beneath a thicker layer of religious imagery and metaphors leading to nowhere.
So, basically, Evaâs like a Dostoyefski novel with big robots.
Donât bother replying to him, heâs banned already. 
Man I liked that.
Demigodâs right on the points he brought up.
Why did you ban him. He didnât do anything wrong. 
Sure he didnât, apart from spam most threads he entered, act like a total retard and generally be the biggest annoying dick on the forums.
Yay!
I mean, itâs sad that it had to come to this.
Sin, I didnât mind it at all, and I always kinda liked Eva. I just eventually got tired to the sheet amount of bullshit that got injected into the writing sometimes.
This has been my greatest birthday in a long, long while
I dont really see why he was banned, but whateverâŚ
Oh come on.