>>23469101
It very clearly is Gundam with some eva references thrown in, as well as from a bunch of other anime (many Gundam, some other tomino and anno works, etc)
>Gundam designs
Oh no one is purple and green the story is definitely 2deep4u and filled with deep symbolism
>Terminal dogma
It's a giant sphere where they have it hooked into the cannon, in what way is it terminal dogma. The overall weapon itself, it's design, and even the Fred hooking into it is an ideon reference.
>Biblical references
name two
>kira-kira
Oh no they call the newtype experience something different. Besides, theres always been a mystical element to it all the way back in 0079 when lalah and amuro are visually represented floating in space outside of their mobile suits to talk about their destiny and amuro is filled with an ocean with lalah breaking the waves.
Seriously, it's nothing like eva besides a few superficial similarities like referencing some fight choreography of the Gundams being kind of lanky. The story is extremely straightforward, there's basically no deeper symbolic layer or "deep" questions asked beyond "what if lalah really REALLY loved char." Amate has a normal home life and chooses to reject her parents because she's just an edgy teenager; nyaan is a war orphan and her arc is a classic Gundam story. Sure they both seek validation from this guy they're obsessed with, another Gundam classic. The multiverse plot element serves the char/lalah love story and doesn't get any depth to it beyond that. Shuji is kawrou-like only in that he's a bit of a twink and knows things beyond the protagonists. The fact that there are visual elements borrowed from eva (a show that very clearly owes a debt to Gundam to begin with) does not mean that the story is anything like eva. The tone is not like eva. I could go on since I actually watched the show and found it enjoyable until the very end when any pretense of plot was thrown out so that the protagonists could fight BIG GUNDAM.
