Hideaki anno interview evangelion

The following article was originally printed in The July issue of Animage. This conversation was made possible thanks to Anno-san expressing his wish to speak with director Tomino during our interview for the V Gundam special edition, being a devoted fan of his. Anno-san considering V Gundam as the best TV anime in recent years, Tomino-san responded to his passion by exposing his own outlook on civilization or how works like theirs should be. Their discussion covered a large variety of topics.

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• Is Anno done with Evangelion?
• Evangelion Creator Hideaki Anno Foresees End of Anime
• Kaworu Is an Idealized Version of Shinji
• Miyazaki Hayao and EVANGELION Director Anno Hideaki Have Been Collaborating on KAZE TACHINU
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• Spoken Japanese Verbatim Text: Transcript of a TV Interview with ANNO Hideaki
• Hideaki Anno, Evangelion

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Is Anno done with Evangelion?

After 25 years, the story of Evangelion has finally come to an end. Evangelion: 3. During the interview, Anno talked about new technology and a larger budget allowed him to tell the story the way he's always wanted to tell it, why this Shinji Ikari is different from the TV version, his future in live-action and the future of Evangelion.

Question: Why did you decide to remake Evangelion as a series of movies? And I actually tried to do various things. I tried to plan a new project, but the conclusion came out that I could do interesting stuff with Evangelion again, and for myself, I really want to do something interesting, the most interesting thing. So that at the time, that was Evangelion. And for the Rebuild I didn't want to do the same ending, this is because the time has changed.

The world is now a different place from back then. And I am different. I changed from back then. So, I thought that I could do something different and interesting from before.

What do you feel that the influx of digital medium and streaming platforms has contributed to the popularity of anime across the globe? ANNO: Animation is an entirely made-up fictional world. This also means that it's the best medium to put imagination to picture. What this means is that animation has the potential to get across to different countries across the border.

So, there was a time when cartoons were for children, but I think that animation is something that now we're going to start developing more into the adult animation, where adults can enjoy this as well.

ANNO: In the TV series, Ikari Shinji was still only able to talk about his own story and basically only save himself, but in this movie he's matured a little bit more and he is able to save people who are around him as well. Do you think Evangelion gets misinterpreted, and how do you think the themes of Evangelion are interpreted by those who haven't suffered anxiety or depression? ANNO: I think that interpretation and misinterpretation is something that always happens.

And when we create things, we always try to narrow that range, but it's totally up to the people who receive it. So, it's easier, I think, for people who are in similar situations as the protagonist to feel the themes but that's not the only people that we're aiming the show for.

We're actually aiming the show for various people. So, we're trying to tell a story that a lot of people can get something out of. You incorporate some elements of live-action while making this movie, like motion capture and virtual cameras, how does that affect the final animation? ANNO: For animation, there's actually a limit to what you can describe and to reach that limit I've always tried implementing live-action techniques. This was something that I always kept in mind from making the original Evangelion , and after 30 years, the technology caught up now.

For the fourth Evangelion movie I was able to use the current technology, such as 3D CGI and virtual cameras, to basically implement all these kinds of techniques I always wanted to use. I am not going to continue on, but now that it's ended, it's actually very peaceful for me. The movie expands on Shinji's father, Gendo, more so than we have seen before. Why was that important to you? ANNO: In the TV series we actually didn't really have enough space to depict the relationship with Gendo, so when we were making this movie, one of the things we thought about doing, was that we want to make this a story of Shinji and his father.

So, that's how we unfolded things. ANNO: Yes, for the Rebuild series, I was able to spend quite the budget for it and was able to, it's for a lot of things that I want to do, especially the pre-visualization, which is a difficult process to do in a normal TV animation budget.

And all this budget was made possible because so many people believed in a show called Evangelion. Is there any chance that you will tackle an epic anime project like Evangelion ever again, or do you see your future in your live-action works?

So, for a while, I would like to focus on live-action and come back to animation maybe once I will have more stuff I want to do. As for large budget projects, I think it's a matter of whether the idea I come up with fits the capacity or not. Also, in Japan, it's hard to find opportunities to do such high-budget shows. So, I want to take as much opportunity as I can since I'm in my 60's as well.

ANNO: When I made the third film, I held myself together to finish it, but it really wore me out mentally and physically. So, I was actually in more of a broken state at that point.

So, I actually needed some time off to work on something else to restart myself, to be able to face Evangelion again. So I did another project after the third movie [ Shin Godzilla ], but without it, I don't think I'd have been able to finish Evangelion yet. ANNO: So, upon remaking Evangelion , there were many interesting things to do, but to remake something we had already done was a very stressful process.

There were so many fans that have their own values for it, which I always kept in mind while making the movies, while also create something new and interesting to those fans as well.

So, and for myself, at this point I don't feel that I have the desire to continue on with Evangelion , but there's always the year gap in the story, so in some form, I want to shed light into that. But at this point, I don't feel that I'm going to continue on the story where I left off.

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Evangelion Creator Hideaki Anno Foresees End of Anime

Mamerto Adan is a feature writer who is back in college once again. Science is one of his favorite topics. Something that casual anime or "Neon Genesis Evangelion" fans might not know is that Kaworu is an idealized version of Shinji. The anime Neon Genesis Evangelion had a lot of weird stuff going on. Well, oddities were its selling point much like other anime, though much to our disappointment, most of the symbolism meant nothing. The crosses looming in the background and the religious imagery were just there for aesthetics.

Kaworu Is an Idealized Version of Shinji

In , Hideaki Anno directed the TV anime Neon Genesis Evangelion , which went on to become a social phenomenon and secured his place in the anime world. He's gone on to create the Rebuild of Evangelion film series, and in November , announced the latest film, Evangelion: 3. Fans from around the world listened eagerly to what he had to say. Just before the fifth and final talk event, the director agreed to an interview with various media outlets. Tokyo Otaku Mode was lucky enough to get the chance to enter Anno's world, and listened intently to what the director had to say. Managing director of Khara Inc. Then, in , he directed the social phenomenon known as Evangelion , securing his place in anime history. He then went on to direct the Rebuild of Evangelio n series, and announced the third film, Evangelion: 3.

Miyazaki Hayao and EVANGELION Director Anno Hideaki Have Been Collaborating on KAZE TACHINU

The jury is still out on whether or not the Rebuild of Evangelion movie series is a reboot, sequel, or some hybrid of the two. Protagonist Shinji gets press-ganged into piloting a giant robot to fight space monsters. His close friend Kaworu has a mysterious past and tragic fate. And in the real world, working on the series casts creator and director Hideaki Anno into yet another a state of depression. Rebuild of Evangelion got off to a fairly brisk start.

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It has been about 26 years since Neon Genesis Evangelion it was first broadcast on Japanese television. The saga has experienced cycles where it has known how to reinvent itself and find new ways to expand the narrative starring Shinji Ikari; however, with the premiere of the film Evangelion: 3. The creator and director Hideaki Anno was questioned about it and there is hope for the fans. Collider participated in a group interview with Hideaki Anno, who stated the following about the possibility of exploring other aspects of Evangelion in the future. When Anno speaks of a time gap, he refers to the events that occurred between Evangelion 2.

Spoken Japanese Verbatim Text: Transcript of a TV Interview with ANNO Hideaki

From Fortnite to Hearthstone and everything in-between, we have you covered with our gaming tips and guides. Join Cultured Vultures as we bring you some of the biggest news from the world of wrestling. I finally got round to watching Neon Genesis Evangelion this month. I devoured 26 episodes and two follow-up feature films over a couple of weeks, and while I enjoyed the big robot fights and twisty-turny plot lines, what I took away from it more than anything was how much it resonated with me as someone who suffers, occasionally, from symptoms of depression. Legend has it that at the time, faced with a punishing production schedule and a storyline slightly too ambitious for its own good, Anno cracked under the strain and his team followed suit. The resulting critical reception was torn between some hailing Anno as a unhinged creative genius while others decried him as a self-indulgent wreck who intentionally torpedoed his own franchise.

Hideaki Anno, Evangelion

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission. A little over two hours into Evangelion: 3. Unlike his past comeuppances in the expansive Evangelion franchise, here, the man both physically fights his teenage son Shinji and monologues, unleashing heartache over his dead wife, Yui, and taking responsibility for his failures as a dad — failures that have led to a psychosexual apocalypse by which all of humanity liquefies into homogeneous goo. To longtime Eva fans, Gendo explaining himself feels monumental.

Confronted with Rebuild of Evangelion , it is tempting to ask a single question: why? Of course, the commercial answer is obvious. Neon Genesis Evangelion is a hugely successful property. This is to say nothing of the cultural impact of Neon Genesis Evangelion. So there would always be a market for more media related to the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise.

We translate an unofficial French fan translation into English, providing access to the full interview for the first time. Already 17 years had passed since the beginning of the first series of Mobile Suit Gundam. In other words, the years of the anime boom of the s. For most part, our current readers were not born or were still babies; at that time, all teenagers accepted the cartoons unreservedly. In the mids, with the appearance of the OVA [format], anime began to adapt to the needs of fans and, insidiously, became a kind that the general public could not fully understand. Of course, Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball are popular.

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