I don't see anyone actually breaking down that stuff too often however. Unlike NGE where most people take the religious bullshit as the main point of the story and talking about how important it is.
Additionally borrowing stuff from other religions to play as a fictional religion is normal so people get that it's a religion.
VS something like NGE where EVERYTHING is named after either something religious or older anime for no reason... except to intentionally confuse people.
NGE is kinda like... Too Human for example. What did Too Human actually have to do with Norse Mythology? Not much from what people have told me.
For a better example. Lets say we take "From Russia with Love."
Now name James Bond, Jesus Christ... Dr. No Set and Kronstein Balder.
It's the same movie with a bunch of pointless religious stuff and names heaped on top
It does nothing to enhance the story at all and just serves to confuse people and make them look way deeper then they should about something that is very simple.
It's not used like in Zelda where it's used to make a fictional religion more recognizeable or Muramasa where the mythology is actually connected in some tangiable way.
