Like it or hate it, with entire series and films now being created with 3D animation technology, it’s clear that CG is playing a larger role in anime. Now Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara, media company Dwango and vocational school Aso College have teamed up to …Read more »
You may recall when Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno's current anime production house, Studio Khara, sued his former studio Gainax last year. The suit came about as a result of unpaid royalties and other fees related to a substantial loan, and a Tokyo District Court ended …Read more »
This year, Megumi Hayashibara, the voice actress and singer behind some of anime’s most iconic roles (and theme songs), celebrates both her 50th birthday and her over 30 years in the business. Hayashibara, who debuted in 1986 on the series Maison Ikkoku , has starred …Read more »
The anime world is full of tropes, but this is one of our favorites: the female perpetrator of ultra-violence. Simultaneously frightening and attractive, this character type (variations on which are referred to in Japanese as tsundere, yangire and yandere) probably made its way into the …Read more »
We’ve been hearing for the past few weeks that work on the latest, long-delayed Evangelion film is progressing, and here’s the surest sign yet: Khara, the studio behind the films, is hiring animators. Khara updated its recruiting page April 15, and is looking for in-between …Read more »
As you may have heard, 2017 is kind of a big deal for the history of anime. The first piece of animation made in Japan was produced in 1917, making this whole Japanese animation thing a century old. What better time, thought the folks behind …Read more »
You’ve come a long way, young man. If anime fans were feeling particularly dadlike, that’s what they might say to these characters, who they chose for ranking site Goo’s list of anime and manga characters who “showed the most growth into adulthood.” Which boyz went …Read more »
A user of Japan’s social media site 2channel has unearthed a 2012 interview with Evangelion / Shin Godzilla mastermind Hideaki Anno that’s stirring up a lot of passionate comments. In the interview, which was done to promote Anno’s then-running special effects exhibition , and the …Read more »
In Japan, the second Monday of January is Coming of Age Day, when everyone who’s turned 20 over the previous celebrates coming into adulthood. The occasion has inspired a wave of nostalgia on Twitter in Japan, as anime fans celebrate the anime that also turn …Read more »
If you assumed the world’s largest Neon Genesis Evangelion statue would be in the anime’s native Japan, you would’ve been right – until January 3, that is, when a new Eva statue in Shanghai, China was unveiled. The giant figure of Eva Unit-01, which was …Read more »
It’s been 10 years since Hideaki Anno, creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion , co-director of Shin Godzilla and all-around otaku genius, left Gainax and founded his own studio, Khara. To celebrate its 10th, Khara has pulled out all the stops for a massive exhibition in …Read more »
Man, being an anime fan in the 90s was something. Tapes (yeah, tapes ) were over 30 bucks and only had two episodes on ‘em, you had to choose between sub and dub, and the selection of stuff available in English was a drop in …Read more »
If we had to estimate how many pilots had stepped into robotic vehicles in the long history of Japanese animation, we’d have to say: a lot, man. But just who is the strongest mecha pilot in anime history? That was the question put to readers …Read more »
Hideaki Anno: the legendary animator and director of megahits Neon Genesis Evangelion and Shin Godzilla is, ostensibly, living pretty well these days. But that wasn’t always the case. In the wake of Shin Godzilla ’s success, a short autobiographical manga written by Anno in 1984 …Read more »
Godzilla Resurgence , the Hideaki Anno-helmed reboot of the Toho Godzilla franchise, did gangbusters at the box office this past weekend, stomping the Japanese opening weekend record of 2014’s American Godzilla film. Critical and fan reaction to the film has also been largely positive, causing …Read more »
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