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Summary: "Tear open the door to your heart."
Review: If the previous DVD's story was a hint that nothing is quite what it seems, in the three episodes here, the scales begin to fall away, almost without warning. We will only encounter one Angel, but the interplay of the characters is so intense that one hardly notices. In addition, the steady pace of revelations about, NERV, SEELE, and the Human Instrumentality Project leave the viewer as unnerved as the characters.The first episode, "Lie and Silence," has Misato trying to deal with her own interior loneliness and her ambivalent feelings about Ryoji Kaji, would be lothario and suspicious character. Confronted by a series of unnerving discoveries that includes the remains of the first Angel secreted in the chambers below NERV headquarters, Misato finds herself questioning NERV's true agenda. In the next episode, "Sickness unto Death, and...," is one of the most terrifying episodes thus far. Shinji and Unit 01 are trapped in the interior field of an Angel that does not seem to exist and the boy's hallucinations strip him down to a fragile core. When this triggers impulsive action on the part of the EVA, everyone, pilots and staff, suddenly realizes that the EVA's are much more than robot slaves. And that their true nature may be just as dangerous to man as the angels. This episode lays the groundwork for the tragedies to come. In an inexplicable event EVA 04 and the entire secondary NERV site vanish without a trace. Gendo Ikari's bleak ruminations leave us with little doubt that he has his own priorities, and even Misato becomes suspicious of the speed at which the fourth child, Toji Suzuhara, is identified. In a stream of small betrayals, the tension between the characters mounts. It becomes clear that the destruction of the angels has a timetable of its own, and is being used to mask both SEELE's expectations and Gendo Ikari's own intentions. In the middle are the pilots, victims of the ambitions of others. The more human they become, the stronger grows the sense of some impending inexorable fate.
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Summary: Simply Amazing
Review: If you thought NGE was kicking into high gear, check out this DVD. Awesome! Trying not to give any spoilers in this review, but, needless to say the game that you thought you've been playing ain't necessarily the game at all. Prepare for twists, turns and many, many unexpected threads to begin and to end. Great stuff. If you liked 'The Prisoner' or 'Babylon 5' you will love this. Heck. You will love it anyway!
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Summary: Romantic conspiracy
Review: These three episodes boast the most from romance. The opposties-attract love of Shinji to Auska, the quarky love sparks of Kagi and Misato and the classic school romance of Togi to Hikura. The first epsiode has more secrets revealed and also discusses more about the relationship between Shinji and his father and also discusses Shinji's dead mother. In the episode, we see Kagi and Misato get a little more closer and Auska make her first kiss with Shinji (if not regreting it later). The episode ends with a big secret revealed so alarming, Im not even going to tell you. The second epsiode is a more emotional volume with Shinji being eaten by an Angel and thrown into a state of stress as his mind plays tricks on him and he gets to see a breif glimpse of his mother. The last volume discuss more EVA fun! Evangelion 04 was destroyed in an explosion, so the US decides to send over EVA 03 to Japan and everyone is guessing who the pilot will be. Its a two part episode, but just by watching the first part, you already know who it is. For Angel fighting, there isn't much of it in here. Most of the DVD is just charcter development and inteligent plot twists, but its a very good volume. I really enjoy watching the Spanish and French language ADV included (thank you, DVD). Bio will most definetly include Angel #12, but thats about all I know right now. Stay tuned. The next volume is where the story really picks up and has an impressive fight scene. More fun to come!
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Summary: ADV continues to deliver acceptable video
Review: Thid DVD exhibits bright and stable colors as well as a relatively good overall image. Aliasing is a little worse than on a raw NTSC source. The picture still suffers from the "jumpy" syndrome of the last three releases. However, this is still better than the first release. Decompression artifacts are at a minimum. The sound is just as good as the rest of the titles this series. I only wish ADV could solve their jumpy telecine problems. It's fairly distracting. Otherwise, I think fans of NGE will like this release. It's fairly well produced.
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Summary: Things start to get serious.........
Review: This DVD is definiately a turning point in the series. Up to this point has been basically slapstick sexual humour and utterly awesome action sequences. This collection is when the series gets dark.....really dark. In episode 15 we find that there is still some kind of spark between Kaji and Misato and that there is a new spark imerging with Shinji and Asuka....And Kaji reveals a disturbing secret about NERV.....BUM BUM BUM!!! In episode 16 a new, oddly bizarre, angel attacks the city and when Shinji hotheadidly thinks he can take on the angel by himself, he and his Eva get trapped inside it. Here we start to understand that the Evas arent just biological robots, but beings with souls and humanity. Pay attention to the music when Shinji defeats the angel; You're gonna hear that alot from now on. And when you do, things are gonna get bloody......very bloody. In episode 17 we find that there's a new fourth child on the way. They dont say exactly who it is but its fairly obvious....I think you can figure it out. In conclusion this is a great collection in the series. My only complaint is that there isnt too much that happens, (I mean cmon only one angel attack!!). This DVD paves the way for particularly more disturbing happenings to come. Buy it. Buy it now!!
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Summary: A precursor of things to come.
Review: This is one of the more important collections in the series. There is disturbing imagery and and deep psychological meaning. Of course this is child's play compared to what's to come. Depending on your kind tastes of anime, you may like or hate these episodes. Gainax forces you to watch every detail if your going to want to understand anything about the story. But in my opinion, that is what makes "Evangelion" much more rewarding than most other shows.
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Summary: The series gets even more interesting
Review: This is yet another very good buy. The truth starts to really come out about NERV, Seele, the Marduk Institute, and relationships are expanded. Episode 15 is kinda slow, but important to the overall story. Episode 16 is the most interesting--at least to me--on this DVD with Shinji in action against an Angel only a few nanometers thick. (Was nanometer really the length they wanted to use? Oh well.) 17 is also slower, but important as it has the "finding" of the Fourth Child.
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Summary: Eva 01 reveals true self!!
Review: This part of the series begins to REALLY reveal the nature of the Evas in general, but Eva 01 especially. The episode with the Shadow Angel that swallow Shinji is the best in my opinion. It reveals something about the relationship of the Eva 01 to Shinji, something very important. But for the younger viewers I will say this, it is the freakin best scene to watch when Eva 01 beats the Angel. The other two episodes do reveal something of Gendo and his relationship to his dead wife, but also of how NERV gets its pilots, courtesy of Kaji. I hope other fans enjoy this DVD as much as I did.
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Summary: Eva 01 reveals true self!!
Review: This part of the series begins to REALLY reveal the nature of the Evas in general, but Eva 01 especially. The episode with the Shadow Angel that swallow Shinji is the best in my opinion. It reveals something about the relationship of the Eva 01 to Shinji, something very important. But for the younger viewers I will say this, it is the freakin best scene to watch when Eva 01 beats the Angel. The other two episodes do reveal something of Gendo and his relationship to his dead wife, but also of how NERV gets its pilots, courtesy of Kaji. I hope other fans enjoy this DVD as much as I did.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: Well theres not alot of fighting, but the part were theres only a white stripe in the screen and Shinji talking about the craizest stuff.I kept saying outloud "what the hecks goin on."This part of evangelion messed wiht my mind. the only other anime to do that was PERFECT BLUE which i highly recommend, this plus PERFECT BLUE opened me up to animes to mess wiht my head after i am done with this series i plan on starting SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN.
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