Brain Powerd
"Brain Powerd" was produced by Sunrise and directed and written by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the long-running Gundam franchise. "Brain Powerd" is often compared to the Gainax's popular "Neon Genesis Evangelion", a 1995 anime series with similar themes to "Brain Powerd". Tomino claimed that the plans and overall storyline for "Brain Powerd" were made even prior to the airing of "Evangelion". He stated that he "never meant ["Brain Powerd"] to be an antithesis to "Evangelion"" despite the inevitable comparisons they would receive when his own series debuted in 1998. After deciding not to make any changes to "Brain Powerd", he "resigned" himself to the fact that the public would label his anime an attempt to best "Evangelion". Tomino was enthusiastic about his first attempt at the "organic" mecha subgenre in place of the purely metallic robots he had worked with for so many years in his career. He wanted to write an interesting story for "Brain Powerd" in order to allow those who watched it to do so without "having a nervous breakdown" and to show fans "that there were often other things out there better than anime". Tomino has wished that more animators would see themselves as entertainers, though he admitted that he felt that "Brain Powerd" was not very entertaining and thus a failure in this regard.