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I think Eva (by which I mean the 26 episodes plus EoE) is better than any one single Gundam series because they didn't have to leave any plot threads for later, or deal with the implications of earlier works. It is tight and complete and every theme and plot thread goes somewhere, it feels like it was more intentional basically. The only things left ambiguous either do not fucking matter remotely (i.e. "where did the angels come from?" is not a question that will really tell us anything if it gets an answer) or are clearly things the audience is meant to interpret themselves (i.e. for every line with a double meaning, which should we say is the primary meaning?)
In other words, every Gundam work relies at least partially on the rest of the franchise to improve and contextualise it.
I've definitely spent enough time fixating on it to call me "obsessed".
Of course unlike Gundam, Eva shit the bed with everything after the original story. Which I don't mind, it doesn't ruin the original for me, but the rebuilds really are so mediocre and let's not even discuss all the spinoff slop.
For my money, no Gundam series has characters with remotely the depth of Eva's characters. That's the main advantage Eva has to me.
