I wonder what kind of symbolism they’re trying to get at
“There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.” -Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director/art director on Neon Genesis Evangelion
eva is literally fake deep
#i love this tbh #like their treating christianity like white people treat buddhism and what not is such an unintentional fuck you
tbh the Japanese sprinkling Christianity into their media like a cheap vaguely spooky seasoning is a tonic for my soul
[ID: a gif of Evangelion Unit-01 being speared through the hand, then showing it suspended in the air with a spear through each hand and its chest, with three glowing triangular wings of sorts around its head and shoulders. It looks like it has been crucified. End ID.]
I did a report on Evangelion for my Millennium and the Apocalypse class (Yes, I’m Very Old) and the thing I remember the most was having to explain, over and over again, that the Christian symbolism was an aesthetic and used for entertainment, not to convey religious meaning and the entire class having a goddamn mental break over it because the idea that someone might not have been 1) culturally familiar with and 2) personally invested in Christianity was a goddamn revelation.