Listen man, this shit was Invoked alright, full frontal invocation right there, Invoking all over the fucking place.
This proto-End of Evangelion style film is flat out epic, it's visceral, it's horrifying, it takes the Super Robo genre and gives it a fucking Cosmic Horror treatment in a way I didn't know I needed and didn't realize could be done this well outside of Evangelion itself. It's something that's been on my list since I read interviews with Anno citing it as an inspiration but I am very pleased to have actually done the dive and watched it.
In the end, I think this may be the work of Tomino's that I have loved the most. It's the best of his tropes and themes packed into a truly horrifying depiction of war with an upsettingly apocalyptic and nihilistic ending that somehow feels both overwhelming and soothing. Now excuse me while I feel the incredible urge to smoke a cigarette and disassociate.
Listen man, this shit was Invoked alright, full frontal invocation right there, Invoking all over the fucking place.
This proto-End of Evangelion style film is flat out epic, it's visceral, it's horrifying, it takes the Super Robo genre and gives it a fucking Cosmic Horror treatment in a way I didn't know I needed and didn't realize could be done this well outside of Evangelion itself. It's something that's been on my list since I read interviews with Anno citing it as an inspiration but I am very pleased to have actually done the dive and watched it.
In the end, I think this may be the work of Tomino's that I have loved the most. It's the best of his tropes and themes packed into a truly horrifying depiction of war with an upsettingly apocalyptic and nihilistic ending that somehow feels both overwhelming and soothing. Now excuse me while I feel the incredible urge to smoke a cigarette and disassociate.