While I had the series downloaded for a year at the least I found this while wasting time in Sanity the other day and grabbed it since it was cheap. It’s such a great show with great moral and even Christian* (rare for anime) themes like how you can’t just wait to expect help and that you need to talk to somebody about such things or that sickness and disability is bad but you can spend your life helping others. As somebody who has (and still do slightly) hid their pain and have multiple disabilities the themes of the show really resonated with me. Yes I’m aware of the interviewer where Yoshitoshi ABe says it’s somewhat religious but not based on one religion but just on how he feels a God is. This is like one of the few anime that I could call one of my favorites and got impressed with. I watched it with the dub for once and it was one of the best dubs I seen despite most of the cast being complete nobodies in the scene. The soundtrack was pretty great for anime in general let alone a weekly series. Now I have even more of a reason to check out the video game Shadow of the Colossus. I haven’t played Ico but the backgrounds at some point made me feel like this is kinda like a Team Ico made anime.
This is a bonus credits in the extras on the DVD but I end with linking this End of Eva like song (which wasn’t in the series).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qha8ujj8io0