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The History of Anime on TV can basically be broken down into two big eras.

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Pre-Evangelion and Post-Evangelion.

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You see, before Neon Genesis Evangelion aired, there wasn't a whole plethora of

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original anime TV shows, especially not in the late-night broadcasting blocks.

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Most of the really original anime as well as all of the nice stuff the stuff

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aimed at otaku and older audiences 
was being produced in Ovas or films.

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TV anime was usually relegated to much longer series

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with much broader appeal. For instance you had stuff like the world

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Masterpiece theater shows each of which was a 50 or so episode adaptation of some piece of classic literature?

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Usually from the west these projects were the breeding ground of talents such as hayao

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Miyazaki and the staff of Studio Ghibli then you had Manga adaptations usually of stuff with a pretty broad appeal

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sports anime from the 70s like a sheet on Ojo action Mecha series like Mazinger z later a plethora of

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long-Running shown in action series hitting it big with dragon ball in the mid 80s as well as long-form romantic comedies like the

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adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi x' work like a loose ayaat

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Sura and Ranma 1/2 the works of Meets udo

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Adachi such as touch generally lots and lots of manga adaptations of Manga that were usually already pretty popular

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Some of these appealed to older audiences or to the whole family but very rarely were these the niche otaku shows that proliferate

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Anime today with few exceptions. It could be said that even before

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Evangelion changed the face of anime Mobile suit Gundam had already done

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So in 1979 and Gundam did inspire a fair few imitators with a blossoming mecha and Sci-Fi Genre in the 80s

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But a majority of those were just other shows from studio sunrise the studio who had created mobile suit Gundam

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And as the 80s gave way to the 90s fewer and fewer of those were

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Serious Dark adult shows and more and more of them were kids shows aimed at selling toys as they had been before Gundam

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Particularly when sunrise was bought out by Bandai and really became focused on Mecha series for Younger children such as the brave franchise

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Well, we did get some interesting Sci-Fi series here, and there such as super dimensional fortress macross in the mid

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Irresponsible Captain Tyler in the early 90s the latter being an adaptation of a novel series

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It wasn't really until after evangelion blew up that the doors were thrust open on not only

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original anime on television with shorter runtimes in later Timeslots

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But also more experimental anime aimed at a more niche and adult audience

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Seriously go on my anime list go into the archive section of their seasonal charts

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Open up every year in the 90s before Evangelion airing you will see almost

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Exclusively kids shows and Manga adaptations

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But then the second evangelion hits the air all of a sudden the second half of the 90s changes completely

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But in a very slow and methodical Manner first immediately following evangelion is the series

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Escaflowne an original anime series from studio sunrise once again this one which tries to blend Shoujo elements into a mecha

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Fantasy series now ask a flow name probably isn't as directly a result of neon genesis Evangelion

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It was an original project which involved a lot of staff who had already been working on original projects with sunrise up to that point?

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And would be a breeding ground for talent which would go on to create further original projects in the near future

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but nonetheless the fact that it comes right after

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Evangelion kind of signals the flood that is soon to come later that year is the first true successor to neon Genesis Evangelion

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In the form of Martian Successor in Edessa. Co this is a Mecha parody

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Deconstruction anime which seeks to take apart all of the tropes of old robot shows as well as the otaku

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Oriented Media in General, and just pull it all apart and look at how it works before putting it back together

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It's got a wacky fun dysfunctional cast of super cute girls some really dark

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unexpected turns throughout the narrative and a crazy-ass ending granted one that like the end of evangelion seems truncated and

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Unsatisfying and was meant to be followed up with further Media which in this case

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Some of it got made but not all following that we have

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Revolutionary Girl Utena which really seems to be an answer to evangelion

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But in the realm of Shoujo magical girl anime lewton O was spearheaded by Kunihiko Aku Hara

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Who was good friends with?

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Evangelion creator hideo Keano at the time the two of them had

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Work together on some episodes of sailor Moon which Eco hada had been the chief director of for the third and fourth seasons

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Eco hada and his team called, babe

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Papa's decided to break away from the studio that was creating sailor moon and decided to go work with j.c.staff

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Whom aside from sunrise was the only studio other than neon genesis evangelion?

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Even attempting original TV anime in the 90s. They had produced metal fighter miku just a year before evangelion

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Which was a pretty standard girls sports series?

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But with some weird and trippy visuals because of director occupation though coming in late on the project

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Revolutionary Girl Utena has many of the same intentions as evangelion

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but turned up to 11 with the visual factor if the densely laden themes and symbolism and the obvious attemPts at

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subversion all

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Over the place the creators were aiming to do everything that they had wished they could do with sailor moon and couldn't and boy they

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Did everything they possibly could the follow-up film revolutionary girl utena?

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apocalypse of adolescents is often referred to as end of tuna in reference to its similarity to end of

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Evangelion and while Lewton afield like the most direct result of

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Evangelion existence we would very quickly start to see things open up and get crazy in

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1998 once everybody had time to really let evangelion settle in and decide to try and copy it one series

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Which doesn't really borrow much from Evangelion?

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But may very well have been allowed to exist because of the success of such a show is Cowboy Bebop

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a show that was created when studio sunrise told director

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Shinichiro watanabe that he could basically do whatever he wants as long as it has some

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Spaceships that they can sell toys of so, what - now?

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They creates one of the most eclectic original and memorable anime series of all time bear in mind these series were also

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big successes Martian success or no disco and Cowboy Bebop also sold

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Gangbusters and revolutionary girl utena has been extremely well remembered over time itself having won Several awards

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But 1998 is where the floodgates really start to open and not every one of these shows is as well remembered as neon genesis Evangelion

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And its first few successors at this point

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It's not only these hyper talented visionary directors

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Who are being given the reins to do whatever they want on these really great series now things are starting to get more

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Experimental some very strange writers are getting hired people who are known their weird-ass bullshit for instance show.i, Okawa

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Who's put in charge of the Series Neo Rangga and utterly insane?

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Batshit Balls-To-the-Wall

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series which starts off with three episodes of what is literally a

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Godzilla film before it becomes about three young girls who have a pet kaiju that they used to solve

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Yakuza disputes

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And the housing crisis in Japan this thing has tons of political

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Commentary it really goes all over the place in tone and is completely unpredictable and show.i

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Okawa would go on to write

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No shortage of Batshit insane bullshit over the course of his career likewise we would be introduced to Chiaki J

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Kanaka who made his mark on the world with serial experiments lain a cult favorite

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Series which makes up for its relative lack of production value with incredibly striking artwork and design and especially

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Sound design but more importantly its mind-altering perception of the internet and the upcoming singularity which seemed way ahead of its time in

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1998 other less remembered shows which started that year are the likes of gas Adachi and generator gall a mecha series and

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Transforming hiro series respectively, which feel a little bit more standard and anime ish than the likes of evangelion?

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but clearly take cues from it in terms of their

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Presentation and the integration of more horrifying and trippy Sci-Fi elements into their plot in 1999 we get dual parallel

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Adventure a show which I haven't seen myself

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but the only thing I've ever

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Heard about it over the 17 years that I've been hearing about it is people saying that it's like a light-hearted

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Take on neon Genesis Evangelion

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Depending on who you're asking

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It's a not up its ass version

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But you know you know how people are a couple of the producers working at studio sunrise who are in charge of the brave

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Franchise remember that kids toy line show would take it in a very strange

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Direction when they brought Gaogaigar to an end the final brave series, and then gave it this crazy-ass

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Ova

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finale that completely goes into the realm of dark and insane and this is right before setting another series in the same universe as the

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brave series called better man

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Which is a straight-up Sci-Fi horror series that has nothing

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Totally to do with the brave series in spite of sharing the same style of character design and to start off 1999

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We see the legend of Black heaven a show with dogshit production values

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but a really

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story about a washed-up old Rock star come

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Salaryman who's trapped in Limbo between trying to relive his glory days and taking care of his wife and kid aside from its random breaks

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Into complete wacky silliness that don't go over all that well the series handle some

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Shockingly mature themes with a character older than almost any other main character in anime ever

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not to mention some badass guitar solos if I have to mark the exact moment that the full impact of

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Evangelion release really takes hold though it would be in October of 1999 in this season four

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Different very dark Sci-Fi series make their debut on television

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each of them featuring characters who experience deep pSychological trauma really horrifying world views on the Nature of

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Humanity and just plenty of carnage and violence in some cases

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We have now and then here and there which starts off looking like a shown an adventure series about a kid getting

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Teleported to another world until it turns out that this other world. He's been teleported to is a horrifying

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Dictatorship full of child slaves and soldiers in which the main characters are essentially

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tormented and raped throughout the series then we have blue Gender a show about humanity coming out of

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Cryogenic Chambers to find the Earth completely ravaged by giant insects that kill everything and which I remember primarily for the fact that so many

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of the main characters get eaten horrific ly by Giant bugs

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Not to mention infinite revised a show about a bunch of space cadets who end up

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abandoned on a ship out in the middle of space when all of the adults die and they have to learn to form a society

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which comes with no shortage of

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Horrifying horrifying things that people do to one another very often referred to as the lord the flies in space

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Not to mention Chiaki J

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Kanaka returns once again with big O this one a sort of fusion of Batman with mecha that has lots of film noir

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trappings and on a lighter note die guard a mecha series in which the mech isn't really as important as the study of

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Bureaucracy an extremely adult centric series considering that it's a mecha show at this point in time

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original anime got into full swing

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Plenty of weird eclectic original shows were hitting the air over the course of the next Few years

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stuff like Nia under Seven Brigadoon Strange, Don, Bandra, Argento

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Soma

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Arjuna the Daichi's new are the Soultaker Gene shaft figure 17 xingu s cry add all of these debuted in

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2000 and 2001 all of them were highly original series with varying levels of adult appeal some of them were completely

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Out there

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And just totally full of weird ideas that they were getting to explore in this new

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Expanded format of original TV anime and others were a lot more anime like and felt more like the ova

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's of the 80's and 90's, we're just getting

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expanded into full TV shows now whether or not they had been based on Manga if I had to pinpoint the apex of the

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Evangelion influence though it would be with the series Rasa fon in

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2002 Rasa fun has always been closely compared to

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evangelion for good reason my friend ghost lightning made a whole post about all the direct parallels between the two shows as a response to

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People who were arguing that rasa fun was somehow nothing like evangelion

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Which is objectively not true, but in a way rasa fon reflects an attempt to do ever again

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but with a whole different crew of Major Talent

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This was the first really major original project from Studio bones

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And it was a collaboration between many different writers and directors to make something

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extremely eclectic and out there in a mecha series one that goes a step farther than

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Evangelion and being

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truly out there with its design sense and with a narrative that really kind of plays second fiddle to the idea of just

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Going crazy and experimenting with different episode styles

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But by this point the floodgates are just officially

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open original anime is a thing that we have now and not even much of it is necessarily trying to copy elements from

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Evangelion the people who made

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Evangelion have all moved on to work on future

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projects the nature of most anime studios has completely shifted with tons of new studios opening up and breaking away from one another at the

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Turn of the century and anime on TV is becoming a bigger and bigger deal as more and more shows get introduced every single season

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Even the weirdest original anime feels less and less like it's directly trying to do what Ava

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Did shows like hi Bonnie ren mei Wolf's rain last exile and techno lies which aired in 2003 all create their own

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Completely unique worlds while shows like Paranoia agent ergo proxy and no wine over the next couple of years managed to explore the these deeper

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psychological concepts and really out there plotlines without really feeling like

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Evangelion ripoffs and in the meantime a lot of more normal anime style is being brought to

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Original anime shows like my he may and mahou Shoujo lyrical Nanoha that aired in 2004 played with completely different

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Elements of the meta of anime and would be bigger inspirations on the types of shows that were to come

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But it wasn't just original anime which was following Evan galleons example over that decade a lot of the stuff

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That was being

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Adapted from Manga and light novels was very clearly being adapted because of its similarity to evangelion as well

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And in fact in some of these cases the stories actually feel less ava

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Like simply because they weren't actually being made in response to evangelion

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But we're instead picked up because they could now be adapted to anime with shows like ever being proven popular

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It's hard to imagine

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We'd get stuff like the berserk adaptation something as baffling as eat man

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Trigon the first TV version of Bubblegum crisis

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crested the stars or Boogie Pop

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Phantom which is less an adaptation of the book and more in original anime set in between the first two books of the series

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by the time we get into the

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mid-2000s with huge years for anime like

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2006 and 2007 the engine of what anime will eventually become begins to

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Perpetuate itself without any need for one huge breakout series to change everything every year more and more shows are debuting

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Until eventually every season more and more shows are debuting and the rise of the open internet and piracy starts spreading all

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Kinds of different shows to a huge audience all around the world

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There are no shortage of tentpole anime that you could point to for having massive influences over

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What was going to be popular in the next Few years the Melancholy of Haruhi suzumiya code gasps death note?

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Sword art online all of these are massively influential shows on the landscape of anime in the time after their airing

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But nothing can be compared to the sheer magnitude of difference between what there was on TV before and after neon genesis Evangelion

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Especially in those first five to ten years when everyone was really just trying to make that show again

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I hope that you enjoyed this video and that you might go and check out some of the post ava shows if you happen to

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Be a fan of shows like evangelion most of the stuff that came out back then was pretty excellent Martian success turn a disco

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revolutionary Girl Utena Cowboy Bebop these are all must watch series

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especially if you're a fan of the genres of the first two and stuff like neo

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Rangga serial experiments lain now and then here and there or infinite revised is very much worth watching to get a totally unique experience

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From anime that you just are not going to get today check all of that out and while you're at

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