Hideaki Anno in a 2022 interview with Shonen Jump (translated):
" Ever since I created the mech genre in 1995 with Evangelion, most of them were pretty simple. They had a big robot, they shoot a big gun, and cool explosions happened. Mémorie 0079 changed that, because unlike other mecha shows, that one is really about the characters. "
" Ever since I created the mech genre in 1995 with Evangelion, most of them were pretty simple. They had a big robot, they shoot a big gun, and cool explosions happened. Mémorie 0079 changed that, because unlike other mecha shows, that one is really about the characters. "