Mari Kotani

Mari Kotani is the author of Evangelion as the Immaculate Virgin (Tokyo: Magazine House, 1997), and is also a science fiction critic.

Another critic said that her husband wrote Evangelion, and Kotani won a lawsuit against them for textual harassment. The Association for Defending Female Authorship was founded to help defend Kotani and other women writers.

Kotani translated How To Suppress Women's Writing into Japanese, and is one of the founders of the Sense of Gender Award and The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy.