Rewatching Date A Live and I'm wondering what ISN'T an Evangelion reference.
I had to look it up because the premise sounded interesting, thinking "what could possibly be evil about it?" unknowingly what's to come (me)...If I looked it up correctly, that's the one about a guy who broke his hands but needs to masturbate every 3 hours or die and is in an evil hospital.
"medieval" setting
look inside
it's just the 19th century without guns(they are lucky even to have cannons at some cases) and armor
be me
browse sadapanda
see south park doujin
theres like 50 of them
So much for being in a later time slot for "less censorship".
Oda should explicitly make the middle finger the key to unlocking the One Piece and Toei will have to do mental gymnastics around that.