新世紀エヴァンゲリオン (Neon Genesis Evangelion) influenced 進撃の巨人 (Attack On Titan)

The inheritance is a genre turned against itself. Evangelion took the giant-machine story and made the pilots damaged children under adult coercion, the organisation sinister, and the enemy a theological problem rather than an army. Isayama's manga applies the same treatment: walls that turn out to be a prison rather than a defence, a command structure lying to the people it protects, and a hero whose transformation into the thing he fights is the plot rather than a twist. Filed MEDIUM. Isayama has cited Muv-Luv more often than Evangelion, and what is shared here is a post-1995 posture toward the genre that Anno is generally credited with creating.