lmao its like that Japanese review writer and I did an instrumentality because YES thats a big reason why the rebuilds are fucking dogshit!!! Anno is a literal mult-millionaire from all his Eva royalties now so ofc he would become a part of the neoliberal order. Do you have a link to the review you mention?

Its also to be noted how the rebuilds have over 10x the fanservice, with Mari just being retconned in as Shinji's cute cat-girl waifu, literally no other fucking purpose to her character, and the directors still have the audacity to portray the ending as something "realistic" and "anti-escapist". And then liberal cucks like mother's basement go online and make videos soyfacing over how "beautiful" the ending was and how much they came over Shinji running off into the sunset as a literal fucking Japanese salaryman but its all ok because "he has gf and job now guys so that means he's a good person now ecksdee". Its all just pure cope with people not wanting to admit that neoliberalism defiled Evangelion long ago and its never, ever, coming back.