"Anno's project is a postmodernist retelling of the Genesis myth, as his series title implies—Neon Genesis Evangelion. It is a new myth of origin, complete with its own deluge, Armageddon, apocalypse and transcendence."
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Broderick, Mick (March 2002). "Anime's Apocalypse: Neon Genesis Evangelion as Millennarian Mecha". Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. Retrieved (14 August 2013).
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