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** This trope also extended to the American side of the Pacific with ADV Films. Commentary for the English dub will often make reference to it being made on budget that consisted of a metaphorical shoestring and paperclip, involved renting out space to do recordings with substandard equipment, and had a good portion of the cast played by members of the production team besides the voice actors, among other things. They weren't exactly in danger of going out of business, but it's still pretty amazing that the dub was as good as it was all things considered.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]:
** The JSSDF soldiers that raid NERV in ''The End of Evangelion'' all carry H&K G11 rifles, which would have been considered futuristic... in 1997. The G11 program fell apart in 1990 and the rights repurposed by 2004 with only a few functioning rifles ever being built and is considered andan abject and expensive failure instead of the future of military arms.
** Plus, the series is set in a fictional vision of 2015. Notice the lack of smartphones.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The [http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Proposal proposal] provides various examples.