>>11136094Probably, growing up was always the core theme here, it just gave off that impression because of it being reduced to a movie set and the talk about "world without Evas", it became Anno's life's work after all, escaping it is like casting aside his own Eva. Just didn't feel as impactful as the original and EoE. He accomplished more with simple visuals like 01 holding Kaoru than he did with tons of dialogues and infodumps here.
>>11136212I can't believe Sawashiro was casted for like a minute of total screentime...