I always always always see people casually referring to this idea that "Anno intended Rei to be really creepy and off-putting but those perverted fanboys didn't care and started popping boners for her anyway." I've even heard people say this in real life! I've never found any s...

236: I find it interesting that the Kanji they use for "fire" here is the character for a literal fire.

#60 - Gainax has used tokusatsu references before and since Eva, so it makes me wonder if this scene here with the self-propelled mortar was inspired by a similar scene from the second film in the Gamera series, Giant Monster Duel: Gamera vs. Barugon (1966). In the film, the monster Barugon ...