I am incapabable of watching literally any anime scene involving a character looking at sy hand without immediately thinking those words
Hideaki Anno: Writes an anime that is a ground breaking and scathing deconstruction of all the disgusting and reactionary tropes most commonly found in manga and anime at the time.
Evangelion fans:
Weebs didn't like the
ending so Anno went 
instead and the weebs just saw it as deep and unknowable instead of his giant middle finger to them.Also, btw, the funniest thing about EoE to me is the fact that all of the lore is literally and totally incomprehensible unless you do a deep dive into a bizarre Evangelion spin off RPG game for the PS2 that was never even released outside of Japan. Almost all of the
Evangelion deep lore you see people discussing online comes directly from that. I'm certain that Anno came up with exactly none of it and has given the lore less thought than most fans have.What gets me is that he then turned around and wrote the Rebuilds which are basically shit to put it mildly. I understand the man has gotta eat and make a living, but uh, Shinji ending up in some kind of romantic relationship with a middle aged colleague of his parents is way too much to unpack here. That and the ten fold increase in sexualization of minors, this time without it even attempting to be a deconstruction of anything.
What gets me is that he then turned around and wrote the Rebuilds which are basically shit to put it mildly. I understand the man has gotta eat and make a living, but uh, Shinji ending up in some kind of romantic relationship with a middle aged colleague of his parents is way too much to unpack here.
That and the ten fold increase in sexualization of minors, this time without it even attempting to be a deconstruction of anything.
I'm glad I never really peeked into that particular bag of dead dove.
He was trying to yell at the otaku one last time but was too tired
Yeah, the most charitable readings of his decisions I’ve seen were that Anno was fully jokerfied by weeb/otaku culture latching on to Eva when it was this deconstructive, depths-of-depressive-period work, and he decided to make what was essentially self parody and turn up the otaku to max.
Seems like cope to me but I honestly don’t know why he decided to dumpster every positive aspect of Eva. Maybe it was for big money and he’s just a hack-fraud. Maybe the stuff surrounding the minor characters in the originals were actually just Anno being a creep the whole time 🤷
cute girl in red outfit 
