9 Famous Storylines That Hollywood Stole From Anime
4. Pacific Rim (Mobile Suit Gundam/Evangelion)
Anyone who's even remotely interested in Japanese culture will know that giant robots are as popular in Japan as superheroes are in the Western world. The sentient, living robots that are the Transformers are probably the most well-known example of this fascination with mechanical giants, but there's two other franchises that exist that are just as popular in Japan. Mobile Suit Gundam and the various incarnations of the Evangelion series may be about massive robots, but they're wildly different to Hasbro's Transformers. Just like in Evangelion, Pacific Rim deals with the creation of gigantic, humanoid robots that are created with the sole purpose of defending Earth from the invasion of an extraterrestrial race. Unlike other films featuring robots though, Pacific Rim's monolithic, metal warriors are physically piloted by two humans from the inside. Even the way in which Pacific Rim's pilots use a neural interface to control their titans is reminiscent of Evangelion's bio-suit technology.
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