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Megazone 23 and the theatrical premiere of the final Rebuild of Evangelion film, I found myself comparing the two franchises whilst in not-so-splendid isolation this past year as the world around me seemed just a little too eager to collapse. Though the former has had new projects successfully crowdfunded and the Neon Genesis Evangelion brand has been greatly enhanced by the Rebuild films, I am mostly concerned with their earlier entries. Long venerated by aging otaku and cinephile subcultures across oceans, these mecha-themed masterpieces helped redefine the anime industry in their respective eras. True enough, Megazone 23 and Evangelion are creatively distinct entities, each as different from the other as either one is from anything else comparable. But as emblematic of the 1980s and 1990s as they may respectively be, there are more than a few common threads linking the two together. Moreover, although most anime viewers tend to think of

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