Evangelion is patterned after the Book of Jonah, in which a cowardly teenager flees inside a hysteroid teratism to shirk his unfairly imposed duty of individuating in human society
Edward Seidensticker’s The Decay of the Angel leads me to believe it is not impossible to produce, as a translation, a work distinctly superior to its source material.
The final cause of Yukio Mishima’s ignominious death by suicide was the eventual translation, by Edward Seidensticker, of The Decay of the Angel.
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起死回生
Kishi Kaisei literally translates to "Wake from death and return to life". Meaning "To come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst".
