Neon Genesis Evangelion

"I wrote about myself. My friend lent me a book on psychological illness and this gave me a shock, as if I finally found what I needed to say."

"Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give his/her own answer. In other words, were offering viewers to think by themselves, so that each person can imagine his/her own world. We will never offer the answers, even in the theatrical version. As for many Evangelion viewers, they may expect us to provide the all-about Eva manuals, but there is no such thing. Dont expect to get answers by someone. Dont expect to be catered to all the time. We all have to find our own answers."

"Rei is someone who is aware of the fact that even if she dies, there’ll be another to replace her, so she doesn’t value her life very highly. Her presence, her existence—ostensible existence—is ephemeral. She’s a very sad girl. She only has the barest minimum of what she needs to have. She’s damaged in some way; she hurts herself. She doesn’t need friends.."

"The child soldiers of Evangelion are a fairly direct embodiment of the "kids are our future" axiom: By accident of biology or design, theyre the only ones capable of piloting the only devices capable of staving off Armageddon."

"Annos project is a postmodernist retelling of the Genesis myth, as his series title implies—Neon Genesis Evangelion. It is a new myth of origin, complete with its own deluge, Armageddon, apocalypse and transcendence."

"Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself."