>>2029203Eva is endlessly wanked because Eva fans never watch any mecha show but Eva. They're incapable of watching anything that isn't heavily spoonfed to them. The show was always easily accessible because it aired on public broadcasting in the US roughly the same time it was airing in chingchong island. The show itself was very much a generic mecha show, the only difference being that Anno had a mental breakdown during production. Tomino had already done this several times before, and was actually committed to a mental hospital after Victory Gundam, which may be the single darkest thing he had ever written. Hell, speaking of Tomino, it's said, that Eva ripped off Ideon, but it could easily be argued that it ripped off Mobile Suit Gundam.
>>2029206Nah, he just wants money so he makes shit he knows will sell.