Anno: On Gainax tainting the Evangelion Brand

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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:15 pm

Very very interesting writeup by the man himself, for those who haven't read it yet. Discusses a lot about how GAINAX went under, their money issues, and Anno's regrettable decision to split and form Khara instead. (Maybe post Eva and Shin Ultraman, fans'll get whatever his new project was?? Unless that was Shin Ultraman?? Hm.)

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Postby Justacrazyguy » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:02 am

"But the worst part is that it’ll never be the same again."

Boy, does that it hard. Studios changing or going under after a decade or so isn't anything new in anime, but the case of Gainax was specially ugly.
It's also depressing to think the rights to Gunbuster and Nadia just went to random companies. Who even has Gunbuster now?
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:48 pm

Looks like Gun and Diebuster rights are currently Bandai, if I'm reading the Japanese Wikipedia page correctly?

That they wanted to get the rights to FLCL but couldn't especially stings.

But I thought Khara has Nadia, didn't they release a TV series bluray box recently?
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Postby pwhodges » Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:05 pm

My Nadia Bluray box says it's © NHK Enterprises. No mention of either Gainax or Khara - but the staff are named, as you'd expect.

It does also say "From the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion", without naming them.
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Postby Kendrix » Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:48 pm

I respect him even more knowing that he makes such a big deal out of fair pay tbh

It's like hearing how Einstein was also a pacifist & stood up for Curie and LeMaitre when they got bad press

It really is super sad how the rights for all these other shows went to randos who had nothing to do with making them :(
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:46 pm

Hideaki Anno is basically Alan Moore winning at Capitalism and fair pay.

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Postby Zusuchan » Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:51 pm

What's that supposed to mean?

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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Fri Mar 19, 2021 3:32 pm

Alan Moore hates corporations for keeping The Watchmen and stuff like that, making it their own, and profiting from his work. He’s kinda turned into a communist sympathizer as a result.

Hideaki Anno, on the other hand, was at least able to get his Eva back from Gainax. It’s a shame he can’t save anything else from them, but at least he managed to profit from the IP he created.

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Postby Zusuchan » Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:33 am

Aha, thanks! I was confused by the "fair pay" statement, I thought you were indicating Moore was bad in that somehow.

By the way, Moore doesn't consider himself a communist sympathizer, but an anarchist-not of the "let's-burn-everything-down-in-a-display-of-utter-chaos" sort, but of the "let's-not-have-leaders" sort and he was that even before DC screwed him over with the rights for Wacthmen and V for Vendetta, which he does actually get some small royalties for. Of course, Anno actually has control of his most famous work and Moore doesn't, which is a bit sad.

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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:06 am

True, true.


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