Interviewer: JUNE’s readers would be ever so pleased. It’s as I thought. *laughs* But, when I think of how you went to such trouble to bring out such delicious characters, it’s just too much that, even though he[Kaworu-kun] was an Angel, he had just one episode and then went away. Thanks to you, I’m looking forward to Comiket, though.
Satou: There are rumors that, up until recently, people did nothing but things like, “Touji seme, Shinji uke.” *laughs* I heard tell that now things are different.
Anno: Touji-kun went away, and they all turned to Kaworu-kun, it seems.
— Hideaki Anno, JUNE Interview - August 1996 (Director of Shin Seiki Evangelion/Neon Genesis Evangelion Anime) - Translated by Morgan Bauman/moyaofthemist
