It's interesting how Max and Mebius are consecutive Showa tribute/anniversary series, but in very different ways. Max is in its own separate universe (except in "The Untargeted Town," which blurs it) but homages the original shows' approach and style and sometimes specific episodes, brings back the original actors as new characters, reuses classic kaiju and aliens, and even gives longtime director Akio Jissoji his swan song. Mebius, on the other hand, is a direct sequel to the Showa continuity and revisits many of its characters and storylines, but it's a very modern, Heisei-era series in its serialized, character-driven writing and even deconstructs a number of the Showa-era conventions (largely by having the team learn Mebius's identity midway through). They complement each other very nicely, taking two highly contrasting approaches to the homage and doing it well and with originality in both cases.
