Animation irritated me. First ep was at least visually pleasing to a degree - this was hard to look at. Especially when they had still frames for like 3 seconds with no motion at all. They pretty obviously used 3D CGI for this, so they should have at least made it look good.
Voice acting was irritating as well. I've pretty much given up all hope of having decent VA for this series, as this and both versions of Babystitter were less-than-satisfactory.
What the fuck? Elites w/ normal mouths (which then seem to morph into the splitjaw at seemingly random intervals)? Female elite giggling like a moeblob? Ugh. I thought she was a prophet or something at first.
The story as a whole just seemed schizophrenic. I could barely tell what was happening (Especially in the super-horde-takedown. What are modern Covie units doing in a scene from the first formation of the Covenant?) and it seemed more like an attempt to be "deep" or "complex" by being unnecessarily disjointed. In retrospect I'm starting to piece it together... but only barely. I guess I'm too unsophisticated to get the super-depth of traditional Japanese storytelling.
The Grunt scene just pissed me off. It was a really heavy-handed attempt to inject "lol randum" humor into something that was otherwise serious, and it did not work well at all.
Also the elite shogun (or whatever they wanted him to be) was fucking ridiculous, especially his final-fantasy class sword (made of metal too - HOW is it possible to think it makes sense for one guy to have a metal sword and the other a goddamn lightsaber?).
Oh, and the high-pressure-blood that put the mass-produced Eva units to shame.
The Hunter was seriously cool though. That was the one thing I liked.
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