If you could bridge the gap between man and god, what would you find? And more important, what would you be? Famed anime studio Gainax finds itself exploring that frontier in its enigmatic yet hugely popular series Neon Genesis Evangelion.
While the series is a variant on the well-worn genre of cute girls and giant robots, it never completely surrenders to pandering its assets, but rather diverges into nomadic postulations on the relationship between man and god, as well as on human emotion, evolution, and technology. Besides Hideaki Anno's acknowledged influences, the series delves deeply into religion, most notably the Sephirothic System of the Cabala.
Anno's Evangelion might just represent our next evolutionary strides. This illustrated fable is set slightly further down the harrowing road of scientific progress and asks a handful of the questions we'll be asked when we reach the end.
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