新世紀エヴァンゲリオン

 

    Over Thanksgiving Break I watched to episode 20 of Neon Genesis Evangelion for listening practice. This anime was recommended to me by a friend and I thought it was entertaining but also melancholic. 

    To summarize, the show follows the story of Shinji Ikari, a young boy who in a desperate effort to reconnect with his absent father was to pilot a death machine. The death machine is called Eva. Shinji is one of three young and quirky pilots. Most of the episodes feature an battle of the day style, with each monster being angels who decided it would be really funny to destroy people's homes. Not only focused on action, Evangelion follows the mystery of the Evas, Shinji's titular deadbeat father, and kids who should have definitely just stayed in school. It is very fun! Most interesting, biblical references and sci-fi lingo are dropped constantly, which makes the show more compelling. 

The best character in my opinion is this penguin, which is sentient and can read for a reason I likely forgot from episode 4 or so. 

<- かわいい

I recommend this show!

Especially for language learners because the dialogue is concise and to the point, almost to a minimalist quality so words are easy to pick up on even when they are speaking quickly in battles. One word I learned was the noun おかしい which is one hiragana away from meaning candy. Although I'm half sure in a candy story in japan you wouldn't order like おかしい を一つ ください.