>9 episodes into Texhnolyze
>STILL no characterization
>"dialogue" = old men discussing the plot cryptically
>MC has 1 line per episode
>literal slideshow animation with the color palette of 2000s FPS games
Did I get successfully memed? This is supposed to be an anime classic? Even if it was to make an incredible turnaround (doubt), the first handful of episodes being this shit automatically disqualifies it from being a top tier show

>>81714515 (OP)
it gets better later on.

>>81714515 (OP)
Way, way overrated.
SPOLIER: MC is a very-speacialboi for everybody in suicidal-depressionland due to his unusual drive to remain alive.
The other people are depressed.

Now you can get on ur knees and give me a po smooch becuz i saved u from 20 hours of bad animation.

>>81714567
pp smooch

>>81714515 (OP)
I liked the atmosphere of this movie. I don't ever understand any of the artsy anime stuff that gets recommended, but I enjoy the setting and the atmosphere nonetheless.

Texhnolyze, Lain, Evangelion, and so on. I don't understand ANY of it I'm a fucking retard.

>>81714589
evangelion is pretty straightforward. it started out as anno telling fellow otaku to get the fuck out of their escapism fantasy and live in the real world (get in the fucking robot shinji). rebuilds are cash grabs.

>>81714515 (OP)
>Even if it was to make an incredible turnaround (doubt)
SPOILERS
You would be surprised.

>>81714515 (OP)
It doesn't get better. Cryptic slop with no payoff, it's a very vapid story. People only like it for the atmosphere but otherwise, it's slop. Even the 2deep4u snobs don't defend this anime because there's really noting to it.

>>81714609
>evangelion is pretty straightforward.
You can't be more wrong.
Evangelion is fractal matryoshka doll. You can peel one layer after another and continue to find hidden meanings. Not necessary they are true, but these layers shells been planted there inside.

>>81714515 (OP)
>Plot about dehumanization
>Wahhh why does this anime refuse to humanize characters ???
>And by humanize I mean slotting them into neat character archetypes like my other japslop!
Filtered.

>>81714648
>It doesn't get better. Cryptic slop with no payoff, it's a very vapid story.
So just like Lain.

>>81714515 (OP)
Inspiring amount of self-hatred. Wonder if I'll be able to open up about my inadequacies so freely one day as well.

>>81714515 (OP)
It's kinda avantgarde like an arthouse film, there's little dialogue and people just look and stare a lot. If you think the beginning is boring you'll never make it through the middle, the mafia shit really grinds the plot to a halt imo
>>81714589
Boogiepop Phantom is my favorite and the most atmospheric of these, though the plot is completely incomprehensible if you don't know anything about the manga/light novels

>>81714688
Evangelion is slop compared to the other works mentioned here. More than half of it is retarded and shameless fanservice, basically what ruined modern anime.

>>81714515 (OP)
There's a big payoff in the end but it doesn't really cover the whole length of it. If you can't get it at ep 9 you might as well just ditch