Neon Genesis Evangelion

[Rigmarole]

Perhaps not. If it was that easy you’d have Shakespeares and Nabokovs all over the book industry. I find NGE’s story truly ridiculous on paper. I get irked by characters who don’t do anything to help themselves. I hate giant robots. So why do I like it?

[Cidolfas]

@Arac

I disagree. For instance, if I always prefer tragedy to comedy, I will always prefer a tragedy to a comedy, thus, when comparing a tragedy and a comedy, I will elect favourably of the tragedy. Think about it numerically. Compare numbers above and equal to/below ten. Taking one from the above ten “genre”, you know that comparing it against any one from the below-ten “genre”, it will be smaller, regardless of if it is the biggest number that is equal to or below ten or the smallest number in that set, and the biggest or smallest number above ten, the number above ten will be larger than the number less than or equal to ten. The same is true of genres when a genre presence is in place. Yes, while you’re comparing all of them, that “all” includes the specific ones you’re looking at.

Well… then perhaps that comparison makes sense to you when you’re thinking to yourself. But trying to explain to someone else why work A is better than work B doesn’t work well if you hate the genre work A is in. Your opinion on work A then loses any of its import, because you wouldn’t like any work in the same genre anyway.

[TaranWanderer]

So, anyway, I just picked up the first two volumes of the EVA manga, and I enjoyed them, though I should read more of it before making any final opinions. Out of curiosity, would it be worth it to watch the anime after reading the manga?