>>2834222>Everyone who watches Rebuilds or knows Evangelion knows that Anno hates Rei for otaku reasons, but Asuka fans in particular needs to deny this in order to defend their pandering. What's bizarre is Anno made Rei into the perfect bushido girl, stoically looking down death and ready to sacrifice herself (for the wrong reasons, but still), yet he has come to hate her.
He seems to want to return to when Japan was an imperial empire, calling Japan as it stands now a nation of children. He even names everything in the show after WWII naval vessels and makes many other allusions to Japan's greatness pre-WWII.
I think what he hates is that people took his suicidal samurai girl, perhaps a critical commentary on the excesses of Japanese servitude, and made her a moeblob. He strikes me as quite a confused gentleman.
