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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion.This is a good hard sci-fi anime, although hard to follow it's themes and style pushes this above your average animation. The English dub was good apart from Major's voice actress.didn't really work for me. There are some scenes with just background music and images of the cityscape, this really drives the technological style at its core. The animation was fluid, although not Studio Ghibli, and still has aged well. I adored the computer systems, it was very green and rather cyberpunk-ish.perfect for a film from 1995. I loved the fact that many of the humans have cybernetic enhancements and is something that could easily be real in many years to come. The lead characters are memorable, from the no nonsense cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi to her fellow agent Batou. It feels mechanical, which makes sense considering it's a techno thriller and that our protagonist is an emotionless cyborg, but it's so mechanical that it just doesn't flow. It's very heavy going and the script doesn't help.

In fact films like The Matrix took inspiration from this, bear in mind this wasn't entirely accessible to western audiences at the time of its release. So already we are presented with questions such as: What is reality? Could everything be a simulation? Do memories define us or do we define memories? We have creationism, ideology, afterlife.this is not for your average moviegoer.

The story includes a cyborg agent investigating "The Puppet Master" which is a virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. There are many many many MANY themes to take away from this cinematic experience, perhaps it is abit too heavy for its own good.
