[EVA] Eva in Kare Kano

[Aaron Clark]

It's a well known fact that Gainax is one of the most referential anime
studios around.  They often reference and parody their own shows as well
as the work of others.

I don't think there's a work they've made that doesn't reference something
else they have made.  Royal Space Force may be the exception, as it was
their first, and especially serious, however, I'm sure if you look hard
enough, you'll find something from Daicon or another anime series.

A few that come to mind:

Gunbuster
Norkio has a poster of Naussica, which Anno had worked on

Otaku no Video
Tons of references, including the Daicon Bunny and Gunbuster

Evangelion
Shinji equals Nadia, Ramiel looks like the crystal from Nadia

Kare Kano
A lot of visual references to Evangelion, among other series

Abenobashi
a parody of the AU from episode 26 of Evangelion

FLCL
References to Eva, Haruka dresses up as the daicon bunny

Konomini
The blonde scientist has a drunk moment like Misato in Evangelion

ETC

--Aaron
EvaMonkey.com

> So I recently watched _His and Her Circumstances_, and I was amazed at
> how bloody much of Eva there was in it.
>
> I mean, forget the psychological introspection of the 2 main
> highschool characters (hm, a black-headed boy with a bad family life,
> and an aggressive red-head...) - KK is lousy with visual motifs. I
> didn't keep a list but I noticed like 7 clear borrowings and
> allusions, and curiously, some foreshadowings of FLCL.
>
> I'm curious what connections I may have missed. Does anyone know any
> good critical references on the topic or interviews touching on these
> borrowings? (I saw a few assertions in the list archives that we ought
> to consider KK to be 'Eva 2', but those are just fan assertions;
> http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/02.12/feature/1/ is clueful about
> the borrowings/repetitions, but mentions them only very very briefly.)
>
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