Hideaki Anno

Whether you're an avid fan of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga, its 1984 Studio Ghibli anime adaptation, Neon Genesis Evangelion or... just awesome things in general... you may want to sit down before watching the recently released Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo short...

When you're at the top of your game, sometimes you burn out. Sometimes you freeze up. Sometimes you fade away. And sometimes you poison the well and drop the mic. On the flipside of my last parallel between a Western and Eastern creator, Grant Morrison and Naoki Urasawa, I'm flipping it around to look at two incredibly polarizing and far less optimistic figures: Watchmen and League of Extraordina