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Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance jmovie! While I have no love for the original series, and thought that the first movie was mildly entertaining, the 2nd movie clearly triumphed over the prior releases in excitement. It took more liberties veering off of the original tv series, and the production jumped a few levels. This should definitely go on anyone's wishlist. The visuals were excellent, the characters' personalities were more gripping and the action...again, the visuals were just refreshing. My only real gripe is that they disposed of Asuka almost flippantly to give way to the new character, Mari, who seemed like another version of Asuka; bold, overly-enthused Eva pilot. She's more likable than Asuka...maybe it's the bigger bra size and glasses? or the lack of teen angst thus far. If the last two movies are as good as this one, it'll be worth the wait. Looking forward to what Kaworu does next. (Note about the numbers, 1.0 & 2,0 are the theatrical versions while 1.11 and 2.22 are the director's cut with more scenes, 1.01 was the first dvd version...hopefully, they don't release 1.2 and 2.35 or something ridiculous like that.) ~8/10 rating for this movie.
Darker the Black S2 OVA 3! Yin and Hei meet some contractors who let Hei in on the rumors of the prophecy. Yin is taken. I'm liking how they've fleshed out everything in these flashback OVAs. Great stuff. One more to go. Are they gearing up for another season?