In all honesty, the Evangelion manga was pretty good. The scenes

The happy manga end is shit compared to the provocative EoE finale or CONGRATULATIONS

>>157405690
It felt a bit heartwarming to see them finally succeed.
It's like a second peek into that idealistic world we saw in the anime.
But yeah, it was sort of a letdown compared to EoE.
I would still say that "congratulations" is my favourite. EoE's ending is a close second because of the title of the episode. (The "one more final" part)

>>157405864
But they didn't succeed. Everything was reset and Shinji didn't learn anything because he didn't remember anything.

>>157406746
They seemed happier.
Shinji had friends too.

>>157406790
Happier from what? He literally doesn't remember anything nor anybody from over the course of Eva.
It was a copout ending that had no empowering message behind it like NGE/EOE did.

>>157406878
They stil remember something. There was even a deja vu moment in there.
It's just subconscious.

>>157406949
That was barely anything and not enough.
It was a terribly ending because Sadamoto never wanted to do the Eva manga in the first place.

>>157407111
I'll let it pass, since the meat of the story was really good.
Some scenes felt as good or even better than the anime version.

>>157407322
There were definitely some parts that were better, but I just can't defend the ending. Not at all.
It puts a damper on the entire series in my eyes.

>>157407788
Then we can both agree it was more about the journey, right?
And it looks nice on a shelf too
How fast did you read it?

>>157407322
>Some scenes felt as good or even better than the anime version

That's because manga is a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to produce than animation so you can make a lot more cool shit take place.

And this particular manga was written over a span of nearly two decades, after the entire NGE series +movie was made, so there was plenty of time of Sadamoto to brainstorm good ideas and improvements upon the base material. Whereas in the anime, everyone knows what effects the time-constraints of anime production deadlines had on the series (episodes 25+26)

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>>157405081
It's okay, but I really don't know it's comparable to the anime. Many of the characters don't resemble their anime counterparts at all. Also the ending was shitty. The entire adaption of EoE was shitty. For example, the Eva series crucifying Eva 01 AFTER Shinji arrived at the fight just in time to see Eva 02/Asuka dead felt infinitely more powerful that him saving Asuka and... getting caught up anyway.

>>157408252

Yeah, Shinji letting Instrumentality happen even after fighting to save Asuka is pretty dumb. He needed to be completely broken down like he was in EoE for him to accept everyone in the world dying

>>157408252
I dont get why he changed so many things. Perhaps he felt the fans wanted something new? I think a 1:1 manga remake would be pretty good, although not new at all, its at least another way for people to get into the series.
I though the same about the rebuilds and just see where we are right now.

>>157410311
He was part of Eva from the earliest stages of development, then completed most of the manga after the on the fly additions to the show and while viewing its reception. Some things didn't develop quite how he wanted, some plot holes could maybe be fixed, some people had really dumb interpretations to correct.

>>157411941
I think he changed the EoE adaptation ending because he is openly against asuka and shinji pairing, while Anno was more "after that what happens is up to you to decide" about the ending.