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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Platinum Collection
Rated: Unrated
Retail Price (not our price): $89.98
Release Date: 2005-11-22
Studio: Adv Films
Run Time: 650 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Color, Subtitled, Full Screen, Surround Sound
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 6


Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) Good value for your $$$   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
This product lacks any special features or extra content that the other expensive DVD tin pack has but its worth every penny. All 26 episodes are on 5 quality DVDs and 1 DVD has all director's cut episodes. This collection is an absolute must have just for the cover art alone.

2) Evangelion's newest fans words   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
neon genesis evangelion is one of the best anime films i have ever seen. This anime has characters that are extremely easy to relate to and have good personalities which suit the plot and making it easy to understand. I love the fact that it keeps you hooked by using a sense of mystery as well as it has almost perfect balance with action, mystery, romance, and emotional needs. The performance of the DVD has sincerely outdone itself by using extremely outstanding artwork and the fact that it uses snippets of the bible to help influence the story line and finally i love the fact that it tinkers with the mind and makes you think while watching it. On the other hand i have discovered some faults in the dvd. i believe that the anime is a bit too creative and sometimes the use of flashbacks and things like that make the plot complicated and hard to follow. i personally don't agree with some of the moral codes. i recommend to anyone that wants to buy or watch this should pace themselves into watching it so that you can fully enjoy each dvd or episode. This DVD has an extremly reasonable price and may take a while to get to you but it is so worth it. i wrote this review with my friend to help people to buy or not buy this box set. Rob and Stefan

3) My personal favorite   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Out of all the Anime I've watched, none have stuck with me in the same way as Neon Genesis Evangelion. With a directing style and plot line that resembles something from a Stanley Kubrick film, this show felt more real and dramatic to me than most other shows I've seen, both in animation and live action. The plot takes place in the year 2015, after a global-altering event called the Second Impact took place in the year 2000. In this post-Apocalyptic future, 14 year old Shinji Ikari is summoned to Neo Tokyo-3 by his estranged father, the leader of an organization called NERV. He soon learns that humanity is under attack from a strange breed of "aliens" codenamed Angels. Mankind's only hope for surivial is for Shinji and a group of other teenagers to pilot his father's creations, gaint human shaped cyborgs called Evangelions.Although the plot sounds pretty straightfoward, it is anything but. Around episode 14, things start to get weird as NERV and the organization funding it, SEELE, are revealed to be involved in a much deeper conspiracy. Meanwhile, the conflict with the Angels starts to take it's toll on the main characters, who begin to crack under the pressure. By the end of the series, most of the characters have a complete breakdown while the Apocalypse rains down around them. This set includes remastered versions of the original 26 episodes, and the 4 New Production cut episodes. Unfortunately, the real conclusion, "the End of Evangelion", is not included here, but it is available from Manga Entertainment. It is vital that you get that DVD as well for the full experience. If your interested in watching something light hearted and straightfoward, than this is not the show for you. The plot is complicated, and things get increasingly disturbing as the series continues, and it doesn't always answer some of the mysteries of the plot, giving the viewer enough clues to come to their own conclusions. However, if you're a fan of films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey", than is right up your alley.

4) One of the greatest series ever made.   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Let me just say one thing. If you have heard anything like "OMG THE ENDING IS HORRIBLE!!!!!!" That is true. But don't let that get you down, this is the perfect series in the perfect set, sure there is one above this, but who cares. It's an extra 20 dollars FOR THE SAME THING! This one came with the directors cuts of the episodes so that is great. This deserves a 5.

5) Mental pornography for 14 year old boys   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
This is not the worst anime, but it is BY FAR the most over hyped and over rated pile of crap ever conceived and put in a nice box.This series is directed like a lightning bolt straight at the heart of its primary target: 14 year old boys.Right from the opening sequence the song sings to the boy: 'young boy, so innocent, become the Legend you were meant to be!', while pictures of nude teen girls roll by in sexual poses, giving promise of a sexual encounter to come.Each episode follows the same tired old plot sequence we've seen in Anime for the last 30 years: Teenagers called upon to save the world from monsters. Yawn. And each episode ends with a Boss encounter, just like the 14 year old boys favorite PS2 side scroller, level up video game.To further titillate the 14 year old teen boy, his 2 superior officers are 20 something women who like to party and sleep around. His 2 fellow "pilots" are teen girls, one a brooder the other a flirt. Each episode sets up at least one, and sometimes multiple sexual fantasys. One time they have to pilot their robots naked, you know for, um testing purposes. One time a superior officer is interviewed nude, for no apparent reason. One time he wrestles with his fellow pilot wearing only a towel so he can fall on her prone and naked with his hand on her breast. One time the flirty red head pilot explains heat expansion this way: 'If I rub my breasts and make them hot, will they expand or contract?' *insert flirty laugh, tee hee hee*. Finally his superior officer has an out and out sex scene "don't insert that in THERE.... moan, moan* but they avoid an adult rating by not showing the action, you just hear it while looking at the coffee cup next to the bed.Evangelion tries hard to take itself seriously, pretending there is some big plot going on. But unanswered questions are not a mystery. Mysteries have clues, shadowy figures and a feeling that you might be able to figure it out if you get one more clue. Evangelion has no mystery, just unanswered questions. Take the big mystery of the Monsters attacking Earth. No clues are given as to why or where they come from. Lots of characters ask, but no clues are given. In fact, most of the large so called "mystery's" are not resolved by the end of the story.The graphics are dated and very few fight scenes are memorable. Many, many times they save money on graphics by having long drawn out dialog while focusing on a static shot of people walking, or a cup, or a long elevator ride from behind. The mechs are poorly designed and all look the same. I've been a huge mecha fan for 20+ years and these are nothing more than a humanoid figure with some armor slapped on. To make it worse, the boss monsters (called "Angels" for no apparent reason) are mostly just geometric shapes so its a big guy fighting a cube, or a ball, or a long tube. Oh noes! Attack of the cube! Run away!The characters are not likable on almost any level and they are all revealed to be psychotic in some way by the end of the story. The last few episodes strip off all pretense and go straight for the nude scenes and long drawn out explanations of why people do stuff. Its esoteric and mildly interesting and it would be great to have the characters be more interesting and contemplative in the context of an interesting story, but they finally drop the boring story with no real explanation then spend a couple episodes just recapping Freudian theories about each character.This is some of the worst crap I've seen in a long, long time and the ratings its gotten make me afraid for SciFi in general and Anime SciFi in particular. It will be a cold day in hell before I rely on Amazon ratings again.EDIT: It has been said that this series is just too "deep" for some to understand. They attempt to explain it, using information they've gleaned from Wikipedia and online fan websites. If the show needs detailed explaining, the writers lost their way, not me. Long and pointless discussions online try to explain who the Angels are, where the EVA's came from, etc. Some fans even believe the whole story takes place in one kids head and none of it really happens. They can't even agree on whats going on... And if the show really needs a second viewing to understand its greatness, well they better have made it more interesting than this convoluted and boring plot line to justify a second viewing.Its also been said that the Movie "End of Evangelion" ties everything together.. mostly. The movie also includes a scene of a teen boy masturbating over the corpse of a teen girl.I rest my case.