![]() Its eye-popping success gave a somewhat sagging anime industry a shot in the arm in the mid-90s. The volume of academic and fan literature based on Evangelion could give Star Wars or Batman a run for their money. In 2018, it was estimated that the Evangelion franchise was worth nearly $15 billion, including movies, manga, merchandise and especially pachinko machines (Japanese arcade games/gambling machines, usually with both mechanical and digital components). Dealing heavily in religious (mostly Catholic with some Shinto lots of crosses and Biblical references), philosophical (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard), scientific (Mandelbrot, Dirac) and psychoanalytical (Freud, Lacan) themes, Neon Genesis Evangelion pairs heavy-hitting mecha (an anime/manga genre featuring robots-in-combat) madness with intense, hyper-focused interior monologues, trauma trajectories and elaborate coming-of-age arcs. ![]() How did a low-budget animated series from the 1990s spawn so many retellings and sequels? Quite simply, Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the most important, ambitious, critically acclaimed and wildly popular anime franchises of all time, paying tribute to some classic anime tropes while changing others forever.
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