>>3021953Anno contradicts himself when it comes to everything. Other Eva characters, the show's themes, and so on, his viewpoints have clearly changed over the years.
I think Anno's intentions in making Kaworu lovable and ideal are valid, but because he had no prior experience in writing a character like that it didn't go as swimmingly as he wanted.
Though when you look at the Japanese fanbase's impressions of the character, it's obvious Anno was at least somewhat successful.
>>3021967From the same interview:
>M: No, no. I didn’t think much at all and just drew it according to Anno’s script.>B: Is Anno-san into that stuff? He even accepted the interview with JUNE.>M: That interview in which he pushes all responsibility to Satsukawa is interesting. But when we came up with the original idea, did it start out as such?So I don't think Anno is shy about it, or else he wouldn't have gone to JUNE to talk about it in the first place. But he even admitted to having bisexual parts of himself.
Of course, seeing as this is Japan and there's a complex about gay stuff, it's expected everyone else is dodgy about it and tries to push the blame on another.
If I had to explain it, I'd say Anno likes the shoujo kind of homo and Sadamoto likes the shounen kind of homo, so they both are technically "embracing" different things.
