#mari makinami illustrious
this reviewbyakihiro_koyama is slightly long but very good, i highly recommend reading if you already know about the rebuild spoilers and want to see a japanese person’s opinion.
if you don’t want to manually translate it, i’ve included the english version here:
“I only make work for myself, not for the audience. However, making works is still the only way I can relate to other people. This relationship is like a masturbation show, because other people are watching me act to please myself. They decide by themselves how they react to it. I do not directly “pleasure” others. It requires some narcissism to be an author. Someone entirely lacking self-confidence wouldn’t “expose” themselves like I do.”
- Hideaki Anno, June interview 1996-08-22.
+Anno on the origins of Mari’s name in the 2.22CRC (Part IV).
