[EVA] French interviews with Anno

[Gwern Branwen]

re: <http://lists.onegeek.org/pipermail/oldeva/1997-September/005110.html>

> Interview with Anno in French magazine:
> "According to Studio Gainax's press release, when
> humans fall in love or feel close to their family, the part of the brain
> labeled A-10 comes into play. Strangely, the pilots of EVAs have to use
> this part of their brains to "merge" with their EVA. That makes them
> warriors of LOVE, with the power of LOVE to protect their loved ones."

Any possible connection to this?

<http://lists.onegeek.org/pipermail/oldeva/1997-September/003351.html>
> So here are 2 bits of an interview with Anno from the french magazine
> "Animeland" (#32):
> AL: Did you get any complaints for using christian concepts ? Angels
> are supposed to be good, that seems not to be the case in Evangelion.
> Anno: I don't know much about the christian religion, and it wasn't
> my intention to approach it or to criticize whatsoever. Having said
> that, wasn't Lucifer an angel himself before his fall?
> [...]
> AL: There seems to be a recurrent message in your series: That no one
> can live alone, or apart from a group or an ethnic entity [?]. Why
> such a message to the otaku, although they live in a world relatively
> apart?
> Anno: One can find whatever message he wants to find in any film or
> series. I didn't want to tell this or that message in particular, but
> the fact that you think about it like that is already positive. I did
> Evangelion to please myself and to please the fans of animation, trying
> to bring together the largest audience possible.

I've been unable to reach the Leonard Tai listed. I've tried
contacting a few I found online, but none seem to be the right one.
(If there's one thing I've learned, it's that even names one would
expect to be relatively unique like 'David Blanck' or 'Leonard Tai' -
aren't.)

-- 
gwern