Have you Reifags seen this?
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9802/msg00101.html>AH: The correspondence between Hollywood and Japanese anime/manga isanother interesting story, but there were so many, many cases like this:
for example, it is known that James Cameron's >>T2<< was influenced by the
manga >>Kiseijyu<<. Again, this was not the potential of Japanese Anime.
In my view Anno opened up this potential. You know, he uses very
stereo-typical characters in >>Evangelion<< such as Shinji, Asuka, Misato,
although Rei is very exceptional, no doubt. He succeeds in using these
stereo-typical characters [no facial particularities, no individual
characteristics] by describing the 90's. I was so surprised to see
>>Evangelion<< because... you know Murakami Ryu...>KW: Anno likes Murakami?>AH: He likes >>Ai to Gensso no Fashism<< [The Fascism of Love andFantasy].
>KW: Yeah, exactly that novel because he uses the same names for Shinji'sschool friends as Murakami did in this novel.
>AH: However Anno is most interested in the character that is named Zero.Maybe Rei is Zero, as "rei" in Japanese means actually zero/0.
