Any anti-FMA fans here?

I enjoyed the anime, but I never read the manga. I imagine my opinion might change after I read a few volumes, but the anime was still a cool piece of work. It managed to get me emotionally involved a few times, which anime almost always fails to do.

As for dubbing, was I the only one who liked the voice acting? Ed's fit just fine and I thought he worked the dramafied scenes pretty well. Everybody else pulled their weight, too. It's been said a lot in this thread already, but the anime is neither the best or the worst. It's well-rounded and definitely up there, and while it's somewhat overrated, I think it deserves some of the praise it gets.

Evangelion fucking sucks, though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

No, let's continue on Evangelion, which is perhaps the single most overrated piece of shit to ever come out of Japan.

The anime started off with cliche promise: it had a somewhat interesting premise but was marred by, yet again, preteens piloting giant robots against an evil force. What was kind of cool was the religious connections, with the Angels, lore, etc. The idea that there was something greater at work and that characters weren't what they appeared was also executed reasonably well.

UNFORTUNATELY, the show just couldn't decide what it wanted to be. Was it a generic mecha anime? No. A harem anime? Not quite. A comedy? Unintentionally. Neon Genesis Evangelion was a mish-mash of shitty direction and even crappier pacing/storytelling with nice character designs. When it felt as though it was going into typical giant robotsville, it strayed off course and multi-track drifted into what the fuck. We get a crapload of episodes dedicated to 'squiggly-lines' and boring monologues questioning existence, we get Shinji hardly evolving from the puss to responsible puss, and to top it off, the ending is perhaps one of the most contrived and anti-climatic pieces of shit ever.

Nice music, though.

Then there's the director or producer or writer or whatever. He was batshit insane and supposedly tried to commit suicide. Apparently his thought process carried over in the production of NGE, as I couldn't tell what the fuck was going on after the fifth or sixth episode. It was all over the place!

The movie (the cool one with Asuka expressing levels of GAR rivaling Archer's) was kinda cool, but went right back into what-the-fuck shortly after that fight. There is little to no redeeming quality in completing the series. There's nothing thought-provoking about it unless you make up shit theories (see fan-fiction) of what a scene might have been about. It is a waste of paper, paint, and VHS/DVDs. It is fail.

And yet, because of it's ambiguous nature and the fact that it was a reasonably 'mature' anime at it's time, it's hailed as one of the greatest by anime noobs and anime veterans alike. Give me a break.

There's nowhere I can't reach.