>>>Oh, and I can do you one better, try watching the last two eps at...
>>>7am after an all nighter, followed immediately by End...
>>
>>And how long did it take you to reconstitute your brain from that
>>puddle of LCL anyway? O_o
>>
>
>Frighteningly enough, I think I groked most of it... not that I could
>explain it in a million years, but aside from a few "hey, wait, what'd
>I just miss" side questions to my guide into the madness, it actually
>made some odd sort of sense...

If I'm not prying, were you drunk, stoned, or otherwise in a state of altered conciousness?

NGE is similar to Akira in that people who get drunk or stoned on a regular basis seem to understand it. Or at least think they do.

That said, at least NGE has something approximating a beginning and an ending....something FLCL completely lacks (Apparently by design. I hear the manga starts end ends nearly exactly how the OAVs did...that's rather annoying when one's mind is relatively linear and likes beginnings and endings. :)