It's a relic of Japan's entanglement with turn-of-the-20th century Germany that both Utena and Evangelion depict the world as...
It’s a relic of Japan’s entanglement with turn-of-the-20th century Germany that both Utena and Evangelion depict the world as run by strings being pulled from weirdly esoteric conference tables
Like that’s something about “oh how could they be so foolish to be taken in by Protocols of the Elders of Zion stuff”, from like 1848 to 1945, “shadowy council of figures conspiring in secret” was absolutely a reasonable guess at the actors behind any given turn in Central or Eastern European politics