Comment on Why is NERV hiring literal teenagers to pilot the EVAs?!
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Because they run on childhood trauma.
Comment on Why is NERV hiring literal teenagers to pilot the EVAs?!
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Because they run on childhood trauma.
leann@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
This is the answer. Hideaki Anno told me that himself. And then he said “now fuck off” which I think is just his way of saying he loves the fans.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Well, there was a theory going around at the time the original TV series ended that it was his chilldhood trauma that was being reflected and dealt with (or something like that—this was a long time ago and I wasn’t all that interested back then.)