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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Collection 0:5 (Episodes 15-17)

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

These three episodes boast the most from romance. The opposties-attract love of Shinji to Auska, the quarky love sparks of Kagi and Misato and the classic school romance of Togi to Hikura. The first epsiode has more secrets revealed and also discusses more about the relationship between Shinji and his father and also discusses Shinji's dead mother. In the episode, we see Kagi and Misato get a little more closer and Auska make her first kiss with Shinji (if not regreting it later). The episode ends with a big secret revealed so alarming, Im not even going to tell you. The second epsiode is a more emotional volume with Shinji being eaten by an Angel and thrown into a state of stress as his mind plays tricks on him and he gets to see a breif glimpse of his mother. The last volume discuss more EVA fun! Evangelion 04 was destroyed in an explosion, so the US decides to send over EVA 03 to Japan and everyone is guessing who the pilot will be. Its a two part episode, but just by watching the first part, you already know who it is. For Angel fighting, there isn't much of it in here. Most of the DVD is just charcter development and inteligent plot twists, but its a very good volume. I really enjoy watching the Spanish and French language ADV included (thank you, DVD). Bio will most definetly include Angel #12, but thats about all I know right now. Stay tuned. The next volume is where the story really picks up and has an impressive fight scene. More fun to come!

I just started watching this series on DVD, I haven't seen it before, but the reviews on the VHS tapes prompted me to check it out. Also, at first I was really skeptic about it, but when fans of the "Cowboy Bebop" series started talking about which series was the all time best(note:these two series are nothing alike, except the fact they're both masterpieces) . I only have one regret to owe this series, I wish I could buy the entire series on DVD and not have to wait for upcomming releases. This series is so good, I'm almost tempted to buy episodes #20-26 on VHS...

In my opinion nothing sounds or looks better than DVD, especially with an HDTV and 5 speakers(2 front, 2 surround, 1 center channel) and a powered sub on 5:1 Dolby Digital audio.

Disc 5's continuation of the story is awesome, I became depressed knowing that I would have to wait for Disc 6 on April 17th. Anyways, Shinji is congratulated by his dad and scores high on his sync test. So when all three Evas and their pilots fight the next Angel, Shinji gets worked up and too ambitious, while not following orders something goes awry. You'll also learn some of the secrets of NERV and understand why Kaji has been acting so suspicious. If you thought three Eva pilots wasn't enough, then you'll be happy, seems as if a 4th child is on the way and you'll never guess who it is. The thing I liked about this and the rest of the series is the wild and zainy antics of the characters while they are not in action, it makes for a compelling yet wild drama. So expect some more suprises out of your favorite characters in Disc 5 when they're off the set of NERV...

If your just getting into Anime or have been in it and like me havent seen this series when it was released on VHS, this is a definite must buy on DVD or VHS!

DVD 0:5 is *great* if you've been following the series. I don't suggest getting this, or any other, unless you start from 0:1 and go in order. You just won't know what's supposed to make sense and what's not. The series makes a drastic turn for the serious in these episodes (and from then on,) so get ready to discover a few new things, and raise a LOT more questions. The first and last episodes on it are mostly storyline forwarding, but it's still really exciting. The middle episode does have some fighting, but not that much. Still, it's highly recommended, as it just reveals so much more.

I think this DVD series isn't really better than the VHS Version, i saw the series for the first time form original VHS from a rent video store, and i must say the quality in this DVD its NOT BAD but isn't EXCELENT either, it could be better(i know this is a VHS based recopilation), so i rate this DVD 4 Star for the content, I think no one who owns the Original VHS verion need to buy this, if you saw the series in the horrible VIVO format, you must get this one, after all its less expesive than VHS, and you get litte more Quality.

VEREDICT: This is the best you can get: 4 languages, Good Picture (some stability image problems), Subtitles, Extras. A good Buy if you buy this series for the first time.

Sorry About my BAD English

This is one of the more important collections in the series. There is disturbing imagery and and deep psychological meaning. Of course this is child's play compared to what's to come.

Depending on your kind tastes of anime, you may like or hate these episodes. Gainax forces you to watch every detail if your going to want to understand anything about the story.

But in my opinion, that is what makes "Evangelion" much more rewarding than most other shows.

This is yet another very good buy. The truth starts to really come out about NERV, Seele, the Marduk Institute, and relationships are expanded. Episode 15 is kinda slow, but important to the overall story. Episode 16 is the most interesting--at least to me--on this DVD with Shinji in action against an Angel only a few nanometers thick. (Was nanometer really the length they wanted to use? Oh well.) 17 is also slower, but important as it has the "finding" of the Fourth Child.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Collection 0:5 is a single DVD that contains episodes fifteen through seventeen of the series. With the episodes on this disc, it seems that Neon Genesis Evangelion is finally hitting its stride. By the time I finished the last episode, I wanted to see more to find out what happens next. The audience is starting to learn that things aren't entirely what they seem, and we also learn that there is a new Eva and a new pilot has been chosen for the Eva. The episodes on this disc also have some more character development for Shinji and Misato. There was also a little more religious imagery and ideas brought up in these episodes.

When I first put this disc into the player, a trailer started. For this disc, ADV only put on two-and-a-half minutes of trailers before the main menu instead of the nine to ten minutes of trailers included at the beginning of some of the previous discs. Luckily, the disc was authored in such a way that you can skip ahead to the menu.

There are four extras on this disc. The first is labeled as "Character Bios"; the bios include a picture of the character and a brief text write-up. The characters included in this feature are: Toji Suzuhara, Hikari Horaki, Twelfth Angel, and Nerv 02. The next extra is "ADV Website." All this selection does is to take you to a screen that has ADV's website featured on it; however, since ADV no longer exists, this link is rather irrelevant. The third extra is the DVD credits. The final extra is "ADV Previews." With this disc, it was nice to see ADV return to having a menu to choose from, instead of automatically starting a long collection of trailers. The previews included are for Shadow-Raiders, Generator Gawl, Spriggan, ReBoot, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, and Nadeisco.

This disc, like the previous three discs, only contained three episodes of the series. However, I'm happy to see that the authoring of the disc is more like discs one, three, and four. I was also glad to see a return to a menu for the ADV Previews.

If you're a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion and haven't either already picked up this DVD release or one of the DVD box sets that were released for the series, this could be worth adding to your DVD library if you can find it for a reasonable price.

I wrote this review after watching a copy of this disc that I checked out through the King County Library System.

There were definitely a few twists in this set that I don't think anyone saw coming. Holy Mackeral! A great continuation of the series.

I purchased these dvds a long time ago. Since then I believe this is my 4th time watching this dvd. The series makes a huge change in tone with this dvd. The first four dvds are more light-hearted, yet this one is very somber.

The first episode is an interesting story between Kaji and Misato. It is a pretty good love story now that I think about it. There are some new revelations brought about here that shed more light on the evas.

The second episode is my favorite of the whole series. Shinji has to fight one of the more unique angels, and the ending is classic.

The third episode sheds some light on some other characters that you haven't heard alot about so far. They make it pretty obvious who the fourth child is, but it is still fun to watch.

This series is one of the best dvd investments ive ever made. Even if you don't like the first dvd, you have to watch them all to truly realize how great the series is.

Well theres not alot of fighting, but the part were theres only a white stripe in the screen and Shinji talking about the craizest stuff.I kept saying outloud "what the hecks goin on."This part of evangelion messed wiht my mind. the only other anime to do that was PERFECT BLUE which i highly recommend, this plus PERFECT BLUE opened me up to animes to mess wiht my head after i am done with this series i plan on starting SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN.