NGE ....

One of the things about watching Evangelion for the first time as an adult is that ... I'm a little hung up on why Gendo is employed. He doesn't appear to do work. He just shows up in a crisis and does the Gendo pose. That's all he does. Fuyutsuki appears to do things, but what does Gendo do? Is he just really good at shaking down people for the budget? Is it simply that he's banging all the people who would have otherwise gotten him fired?

I have questions here.