By the exact same token, Yamaga has expressed a perception of relief that Gainax couldn’t be simply smeared with the media hysteria over Aum Shinrikyo, given that Evangelion’s very own superior-tech cultists applied Western, not Buddhist, revelations. Evangelion’s eschatology is in fact way too nicely-created to be regarded as a mere motif, however if it is a syncretic, symbolic and esoteric technique, it is not an ignorant one.