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In short (heh), "The Vision of Milty Boil" is so crazy it just might work!—although I did have a hard time believing that a single New York City landlord, even one as motivated as Boil, could have this sort of outsized (heh) influence on human evolution. Now just what the hell do you mean, you can’t find the wounds? I don’t miss. If I shot it, I shot it.”
The organisation SHADO which Straker commands is a clandestine with an underground HQ disguised beneath a film studio. Much of the show focuses on Straker's running of SHADO, as task which he is utterly devoted to, to the exclusion of his personal life.Devilman, a manga series by Go Nagai, features a similar apocalyptic ending. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto said in an interview published in the Deluxe Edition of Der Mond [1] that both he and Hideaki Anno were influenced by Go Nagai and that they wanted an ending similar to that of Devilman.
The Fifth Angel Ramiel is shaped like a gigantic blue crystal octahedron. This shape could be a reference to a number of things: General Robert L. Robert of the Engineer Corps arrived with secret information that the whole thing was a put-on by the Russians and that the angel was a robot.In the first episode, the protagonist Hikaru Ichijo inadvertently ends up piloting and crash-landing a variable fighter, destroying in the process the offices of Artland and Studio Nue, the companies that created Macross. In Episode 09 of Evangelion, Asuka's Eva-02 leaps on and demolishes the half-submerged building of Studio Fantasia, one of the animation studios involved in the production of NGE.