Just the other day I met [Sir Featherwait](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8KDR.jpg) in the professional aviators' lounge, where he instructed me to guess his favorite anime. Unfortunately, it seems that every guess I made went further and further off the mark. In a fit of rage, Sir Featherwait banished me from the lounge, and left me with this cryptic crossword: *"Don't even think of coming back if you haven't solved it!"*

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HGyx2.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HGyx2.png)

**ACROSS**  

5. Extreme equalitarian evens out lost capital (5)  

6. Pilot Tesla via telematic component (6)  

8. Lie in the same place after fracturing head (3)  

9. Complex runes leading to chaos (6)  

10. Spirit of the cyclist hero prevails at last (5)  

13. Alien devours a snake for grub (4)  

14. By continuing murmur in conversation (3)  

15. Emperor leaves bearing sneakier problem (6)  

18. Ruler of a swamp expels nuisance at last (4)  

19. Sound chess attack by top Grandmaster (4)  

20. Feature recaps broadcast without run-time (6)  

23. Essentially concave, and holds a preserve (3)  

24. Rocket to orbit around planetary core (4)  

26. Bird of emotion loses its head (5)  

28. Something that's eaten with a float (6)  

29. Earlier outbreak of ailment generated overreactions at first (3)  

30. Heatedly strengthen clipped manner with a lousy introduction (6)  

31. Perhaps being aggravated about final, undergraduate produced a beastly noise? (5) 

**DOWN**  

1. Drunken nude returns an escort (6)  

2. City of pagans exiles two leaders (6)  

3. Actor finished behind supporting member (6)  

4. Acquaintances of Sith leader eliminated after interior breakdown (4)  

6. Lincoln finally shot to support wrongdoers (4)  

7. Wheel re-assembled into electric weapon (5)  

11. Some emperors are cross with disease (5)  

12. Remark recursively, about 0.318309886... (5)  

16. Tasty concoction that's half decent went missing from producing temptation (5)  

17. Bird in tortuous gale approaches the end (5)  

19. God accepts each tribute (5)  

20. Cool lab mop's messy without scrubbing first (6)  

21. Intrusive mass to demote natural leader (6)  

22. Central Intelligence Agency infiltrated by rogue bug (6)  

25. Expression to abbreviate lists, principally (2,2)  

27. Upset eye-roll (4) 

What is Sir Featherwait's favorite anime?  

Credits to [Beastly Gerbil](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/18250/beastly-gerbil) for the drawing :)