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Those are still pretty big stretches. The neural link, moving things with your body, and feeling damage are all from G Gundam too. They also wore fancy suits with sensors, and the mechs actually moved with their bodies. They didn't in Evangelion. Oh and don't forget about Robot Jox. Did it ages before. In Evangelion they never explained where all the Angels were coming from. But it definitely wasn't the ocean since more than one were from space. This if anything is probably borrowed from the fact Godzilla came out from the Ocean in the majority of the films. And the one monster after another? That was taken from old Super Robot and Kaiju shows of the 70's. It's a trope called " Monster of the Week" See? You can find parallels in anything. I've always hated when people choose to point fingers at anything and claim they copied/stole/borrowed something, UNLESS the creators themselves acknowledged the link. While the original writer was aware of Evangelion, Del Toro was not. Del Toro is a Kaiju fan, not an anime fan. The movie would not have been made if Del Toro didn't feel that an updated Kaiju movie could be done. In the most basic sense, you could compare Pacific Rim to a big budget "Mecha Godzilla vs Godzilla" movie, with some fancy tech ideas thrown in. People tend to use Evangelion because it was so popular... But Pacific Rim was not based on Evangelion at all. Especially since Evangelion at is core is about religion and such. Pacific Rim had none of that. Most of the other concepts people use Evangelion to compare it to Pacific Rim, were used before Evangelion was ever a thought in Anno's mind.