Thread:KNN005/@comment-14138255-20161217050619/@comment-14138255-20161217202030

I'll admit I'm into more darker shows lately (been trying to watch Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, but [CENSORED], the site I use, isn't working. However, that's not to say that I like darkness for darkness sake, I hated Akame ga Kill for its gratuitous violence as well as just being poorly designed altogether, and Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate is a boring, invincable 90s anti-hero who is just sooooo edgy (*rolls eyes*). It has to have a point, I watch them for the dilemmas they present and the pulse pounding action they tend to create (since they tend to be more grounded).

Eva, as you've said, has not a single healthy individual except for one near the end (and he's an enemy). It's part of the tragedy, but it also present human beings who are, for better or worse, humans, and humans make mistakes trying to make things better (at the very least, for themselves).

Shinji isn't so much a pitiful character as he is a pitiable character, in how he is a normal kid who gets the shit kicked out of him as the series continues. Kaworu (the aeformentioned healthy individual) is pretty much the only person in the series to give Shinji unconditional love since his mother died, and that itself is sad (especially since, as one of the enemies trying to destroy the world, Shinji ends up having to kill him).

The appeal of Eva and other dark shows (the ones with a point) is also to seek the truth, but more the uncomfortable truths, the truths that we'd have otherwise not want to seek out, but the ones we needed to. Eva explores the human soul and how people hurt each other, but also how much they need and want each other. At the end of the day, the only thing everyone wants, is to feel accepted and even loved. It just might take the end of the world to do is all. I'd hardly call that dark (the way its told, however, is).