>>91845375I don't think that cartoons really have an equivalent. Because of how the west treats cartoons, there really can't be one.
Evangelion was a landmark show that came at just the right time, hit a largely untapped cultural moment, and did so in such a way that for better or for worse people have been talking about it nonstop ever since. It triggered a wave of imitators trying to ride its coat tails, changed how a lot of previously established anime tropes got used and invented a couple new ones. You can basically write a college essay on just the last 5 minutes of the movie and what it means.
Love it or hate it, its about as immediately recognizeable and known there as Star Wars is for us.
Western cartoons don't have anything that approaches that, because for us to have an equivalent show the west would have to give way more of a shit about cartoons in general in the first place. No western cartoon has that sort of cultural impact because our culture doesn't give enough of a shit about cartoons to care.
You could maybe argue that Watchmen was something similar for comics, but if we limit ourselves specific to cartoons we got nothing. Even our most memorable cartoons (probably one of the disney movies) are basically fluff. Which doesn't mean that we don't have good cartoons too, but none of them have the sort of impact and following needed to compare.
