1: Humanity is vain as fuck. They like to anthropomorphize things they don't understand, build things in their own image, and generally try to craft things in a manner that appeals as much to their basic human sensibilities as possible.



2: Evangelions technically aren't even robots. They're organic humanoid giants with armor and tech grafted onto them to allow humans to better control them. Humans didn't design them from the ground up to resemble humans, they already did.



3: Even if they were robots and even if point number 1 isn't enough since you can still argue giant human-shaped war machines aren't as practical as real life tanks, jets, battleships and whatnot, real world practicality isn't everything when it comes to entertaining scifi action. This sort of thing is what suspension of disbelief is for. Sometimes audiences are more in the mood to watch cool giant robots wrestling cool giant monsters than something more strictly realistic.



4: If you prefer tanks so much, why are you even looking at giant robot pics instead of just looking at tank pics?

