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|comment=Of course, this vagueness of the antagonists is an example of accidental greatness, as it resulted from a rewrite forced by an external event - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack the Aum Shinrikyo cult's deadly nerve gas attack in March 1995], a little over half a year prior to the airing of the first episode. It's always been a matter of fandom conjencture what was changed and how much these changes rocked the show's production process, and in the case of the western fandom we can be pretty certain that there are all kinds of juicy Japanese sources that have never been translated into English, but we do know that distancing Evangelion's plot from Aum's real-world atrocities was a major imperative for Gainax. One tantalizing, although a second-hand source is [https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9802/msg00101.html Krystian Woznicki's interview with the Japanese cultural critic Hiroki Azuma], who had talked with Anno about the rewrite situation among other things. Interestingly, not only was Seele affected, but the shape-shifting nature of the Angels too stems from this same impulse to make the enemy more vague: | |||
''"The angels change their form for example into pyramids, into shadows. I asked Anno about such abstract characteristics of the angels. He said that this reflects the feelings of his generation. For his generation the enemy is not political. It is also not definite. I mentioned to Anno that such abstract characteristics of the enemy are very close to the conception of Aum as enemy (e.g. poison gas) which he admitted."''}} | |||
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