Warning: This editorial contains spoilers for the Evangelion series and films, including Thrice Upon a Time.
In 2006, I had just turned 14. I knew what anime was at the time, of course; racing home after school each day to gorge myself on Toonami reruns of Dragon Ball Z and Rurouni Kenshin was still a vital ritual for me and all of my friends (and over the past couple of years, I was even able to start staying up late enough to catch Cowboy Bebop and Trigun on Adult Swim). I didn’t know anything about Neon Genesis Evangelion, though, other than the fact that it looked like a cool science-fiction anime with pretty anime girls in it.
That shiny box art and promise of cute science-fiction girls was basically what motivated me to originally purchase the Evangelion Platinum Collection DVD boxset when my family departed on a road trip to Nevada. By the time we arrived in Las Vegas,…
