I don’t really do recommendations at all. For most people, I’m not sure I’d recommend any of those—Monster is too huge a time investment for most people, Jinrui is just too odd, Thermae Romae too Japanese and eccentric, 3.0 is probably the worst Eva movie so far on top of making hardly any sense even to people who have watched the preceding movies, and Upotte!! is so fanservicey & otaku-oriented that I felt uncomfortable watching much of it.
I’m hardly a neophyte; 1.0 and 2.0 made plenty of sense to me on the first viewing and I correctly inferred many of the goals that motivated apparent flaws in them, for example. So I was not expecting 3.0 to be what it was.
I don’t really do recommendations at all. For most people, I’m not sure I’d recommend any of those—Monster is too huge a time investment for most people, Jinrui is just too odd, Thermae Romae too Japanese and eccentric, 3.0 is probably the worst Eva movie so far on top of making hardly any sense even to people who have watched the preceding movies, and Upotte!! is so fanservicey & otaku-oriented that I felt uncomfortable watching much of it.
Why would you expect Evangelion to make sense?
I’m hardly a neophyte; 1.0 and 2.0 made plenty of sense to me on the first viewing and I correctly inferred many of the goals that motivated apparent flaws in them, for example. So I was not expecting 3.0 to be what it was.
Did you watch the series? Because the series starts out making sense and doesn’t go into full-blown insanity mode until near the end.
::reads plot summary of Eva 3.0 on Wikipedia::
Yeah, that’s definitely based on the insanity mode stuff...
Of course I watched the series; and I didn’t start enjoying it until it went into insanity mode, so I don’t think that’s it.
Ah. Well I haven’t watched any of the Rebuild, so I don’t know much about that version of the story.