Serial Experiments Lain Was Made by a Team With Almost No TV Anime Experience. The Character Designer Had Never Worked on an Anime Before.
Attack on Titan Was Rejected for Being Too Dark. The Teenager Who Created It Refused to Change It. It Crossed Into the Prestige-TV Mainstream That Anime Almost Never Reaches.
Gungrave Launched as a Game and an Anime at the Same Time. Only One of Them Became a Tragedy People Never Forgot.
Cowboy Bebop's Own Sponsor Tried to Kill It Halfway Through Production
Neon Genesis Evangelion Was Made by a Man in the Middle of a Four-Year Depression. It Became One of the Most Influential Anime of the 1990s.