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The fact that so many websites still name Neon Genesis Evangelion as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" anime ever only tells you how far animes are from becoming a serious art. Video game fans have long recognized that the greatest games of all times are DQVIII and Demon Souls, which were not the most famous or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Anime critics are still blinded by commercial success. Evangelion sold more than any other 90s animes, therefore it must have been the greatest. Anime critics are often totally ignorant of the animes of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Neon Genesis Evangelion did anything worthy of being saved.
Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great anime like Space Runaway Ideon, which never sold much, and commercial products like the Neon Genesis Evangelion. At such a time, anime critics will study their history and understand which artists accomplished which feat, and which simply exploited it commercially.
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>He doesn't understand Evangelion
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Ideon was an influence to Evangelion (though not as much as Childhood's End or Ultraman).
Also Ideon was commercial, it had the "monster of the week" type of episode pacing, only a few moments of the series stand out, and Be Invoked, the TV series has really low quality animation. Tominofags need to apply themselves, even if 0079 and Ideon are indeed pretty respectable and influential.
You just need to learn the fact Neon Genesis Evangelion is here to stay, OP. It's the most important anime in history, and will hardly be ever taken over.
History books will cite Ideon, probably. But just as a mention of it being an influence to Evangelion, which will be what the main chapter in the book will be about. Hell, there could be whole encylopedias about Evangelion and how it affected the industry for over 2 decades.
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In a sense, Neon Genesis Evangelion is emblematic of the status of anime criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it moe or mecha) and too little to the merits of real animators. If somebody draws the most divine keyframes but no major studio picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of anime critics will ignore him. If a major studio picks up an animator who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of anime criticism: anime critics are basically publicists working for major studios, distributors and merchandise stores. They simply highlight what product the anime business wants to make money from.
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Have you ever entertained the notion that maybe Evangelion has substance that makes it worthwhile?
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For the newcomers, if you're going to post, write sage in the options field so that this thread doesn't get bumped up as it deserves no attention.
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>>148472179
Get off /a/, Piero.
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>>148472923
Do you not realize that OP is baiting?
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>>148472984
His shit is nonsensical, but I didn't remember this being a pasta.
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>>148473024
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html
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>>148472179
>animes
Stopped reading right there.
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>>148474316
Holy lol you can feel the hipster disdain dripping off every word.
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>>148472923
>Evafags are retarded newfags who can't recognize famous pasta
Sasuga.
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