Late summer/early fall I asked yall for some manga recommendations for my nieces for Christmas and I got a bunch. They really love Attack on Titan so I got them the first volume omnibus and I’m told they absolutely love it. I got them some others but I like the fact that I’ve been able to bond with them over manga/anime. If only I could get them into old school super hero comics.
I love all the book and manga recommendations here but I probably will still be reading them well into retirement
I watched it 2-3 years ago with low expectations and I was 25 or so
Here's the reality:
You didn't pay enough attention to what was going on. Then again most people didn't so you can't really be faulted too much for that.
Evangelion is an anime that doesn't directly tell you what its core messages and themes are, as that's part of its point.
Many people mistook this as Evangelion being open to interpretation (and while some aspects of it are indeed that, the core messages are concrete). The average person, as it turns out, isn't very perceptive, which is probably why the Rebuilds exist.