This might sound silly to some, but for a while now I’ve thought of NGE as almost “biblical”, like in the way it layers and intersperses meaning and symbolism throughout deeply personal stories, told under the auspices of world-ending cataclysm. And that’s before even discussing the “actual” “religious” elements of the plot, which are interesting in their own right - but which I’ve seen the creator downplay in an interview, which I find intriguing given what seems to be his overall message of rejecting “total escapism into fantasy”