[EVA] Religion and Gainax was RE: [EVA] Moura interviews

[immano]

> Well, France has the wrong image for a fighter like Asuka.
> Cheese-eating surrender-monkeys, etc.

That's what *Americans* think of France.

> Britain is relatively plausible, being an industrialized nuclear power
> on the Security Council, with a long history of war&  imperialism. We
> can't pin the blame on its imperialism as Germany was a colonial power
> as well.

Britain was a Colonial Empire for *centuries*. Germany was smashed in 
WWI and WWII because, as the newcomer it was, it dared try and play the 
grownups' game and was denied a piece of the action by the established 
powers (USA, UK and Russia).

> But Britain, AFAIK, has had less influence on Japan than Germany or
> America. Perhaps that with less nearby imperialism led to Germany
> instead?

It's a bit simpler than that. If you look at anime/manga at that time ( 
but also other fields - I seem to distantly recall some fashion shop 
names, for example), German as a language was the cool thing of the 
moment. Evangelion just amplified a trend.


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