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Anime and manga controversies
- Neon Genesis EvangelionDirector Hideaki Anno called Neon Genesis Evangelion a metaphor for his own four-year depression.
- DevilmanDevilman was a dark manga born from a TV studio's request for something softer.
- The Wind RisesIn The Wind Rises, a boy with weak eyes builds planes instead of flying them. It follows engineer Jiro Horikoshi.
- Attack on TitanAttack on Titan's giants began with a drunk customer at an internet cafe.
- Crayon Shin-chanWhen Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui died in 2009, the manga did not end. His team began a new manga.
- Death NoteA plain black notebook sits at the center of Death Note, a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. Anyone who writes a person's name in its pages ends that person's life within seconds. In Tokyo, a…
- Lupin the ThirdLupin the Third, a Japanese media franchise created by Monkey Punch, once left a calling card where a statue should have been. In 2009, a campaign called Lupin Steal Japan asked fans to suggest real objects for the fictional thief to take.…
- MAPPAAt seventy, Masao Maruyama left Madhouse to start the anime studio MAPPA.
- Panty & Stocking with GarterbeltPanty & Stocking with Garterbelt is a Japanese anime series that began with a director's blunt promise. Hiroyuki Imaishi said the theme of the show would be vulgar and indecent jokes. He added, "If we are going to do this, we will try it…
- Violence JackThe final chapter of manga Violence Jack reveals its ruined world was re-created by God.
- Mushoku TenseiMushoku Tensei opens with a 34-year-old man being thrown out of his home. He is a NEET, meaning someone not in education, employment, or training, and he drifts through the streets lamenting his life and wishing for a do-over. Then he…