When I first started out, there was a part of me that wanted to watch basically everything that looked remotely interesting, and when I first started doing reviews, there was always that part of me that wanted to make sure I had the full context of everything in order to do a review/analysis properly. Because of that first part, my watch list very quickly grew, and it soon became an aspect of my reviews to basically give the people who read them an idea of whether something was worth watching or not. So I'll basically try to follow the old stereotypical 3 episode rule, but honestly if it's boring or stupid, I might not even give it that.
As for Chrome Shelled Regios, I've honesty pretty much forgotten the majority of what I did watch of it. Well, all of it really. I pretty much just remember that I watched it, so I can't really comment on it as an Evangelion clone. Mostly all that's left in my memory of it is how horribly generic it was, and this is an aspect of anime that annoys me when I find examples of it. I have watched a few other Evangelion clones, and the two that stand out the most are probably Argento Soma and RahXephon. I'm kind of biased in that I really don't care for Evangelion, so I found aspects of both to be better executed than Evangelion, even though both had plenty of their own flaws. For example, Argento Soma was the most coherent of the three in terms of my ability to follow what was actually going on, but still had a really annoying protagonist I really couldn't stand.
Sky Crawlers was actually a pretty interesting commentary on the generic formulaic anime that I tend to find so frustrating, as well as the odd focus on youth in modern anime. Hopefully I'll get back into reviewing and do a write-up on it.
As for Chrome Shelled Regios, I've honesty pretty much forgotten the majority of what I did watch of it. Well, all of it really. I pretty much just remember that I watched it, so I can't really comment on it as an Evangelion clone. Mostly all that's left in my memory of it is how horribly generic it was, and this is an aspect of anime that annoys me when I find examples of it. I have watched a few other Evangelion clones, and the two that stand out the most are probably Argento Soma and RahXephon. I'm kind of biased in that I really don't care for Evangelion, so I found aspects of both to be better executed than Evangelion, even though both had plenty of their own flaws. For example, Argento Soma was the most coherent of the three in terms of my ability to follow what was actually going on, but still had a really annoying protagonist I really couldn't stand.
Sky Crawlers was actually a pretty interesting commentary on the generic formulaic anime that I tend to find so frustrating, as well as the odd focus on youth in modern anime. Hopefully I'll get back into reviewing and do a write-up on it.