contrary to most other commentator and i deeply hate this series . it start out look interesting and with mysterious alien and giant robot and and i keep my hope up until the very last episode . at the end of it and i still do not understand what the alien attack be all about ( maybe i miss something and who know . ) and and realize that i have sit through 26 episode consist mainly of the character own self hating and selfishness and self pitying . it actually flip between alien or robot fight and these dark and depress blink on and off scene where one or more character can just say or shout i hate me or you or it 10 12 time in a row . i can not really see either shinji or asuka ( two of the main character ) show growth or change . ( nor can i see any of the other character learn or grow either and for that matter . ) i want to kick them and tell them to get a bloody life during the first episode and and the feeling do not change during the last one . shinji truly possess the kind of helpless hopelessness that make people angry rather than charitable and and asuka be such an infuriating know it all that i want to smash the tv screen every time she come into view . oh and and more than anyone else and these two hate everything and and say it veeeeeeeery often . i be otherwise a big fan of animé and manga and and never before have i dislike one so much . i read that the series creator or writer write this while suffer from a depression and and i can believe that while it make me depressed to watch it . be that the aim of this series . i be honestly ask . be it design to make the viewer confuse and annoy . and if suffer from a depression and why just not write a book or biography about it and instead of mix it up with alien and mecha . this alien war plot and as far a i could tell and lead to absolutely nowhere . finally and since i be truly fascinate by how many people claim to love this patchwork of dead end plot and i can not help but wonder how many of them actually find it good and and how many say they do because they have be tell it be .