Similarly controversial is a softening of the homoerotic relationship between Shinji and Kaworu, an alien in the body of a young twink. Kaworu’s out-of-the-blue love confession has been changed from “I love you” to “I like you.” The line change smacks of “
,” especially because of dubbed anime’s long tradition of such censorship, most prominently evidenced in’s Western release abracadabra-ing lesbian couple Uranus and Neptune into close cousins.
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