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Postby Nuclear Lunchbox » Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:17 pm

It seems an exhibition about Hideaki Anno's television and film catalogue (including his four live-action films: LOVE&POP, Shiki-Jitsu, Cutie Honey, and Shin Godzilla) will be held from October to December at Japan's National Art Center.

Featured works will be:

  • Aim for the Top! Gunbuster (1988–1989)
  • Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990–1991)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)
  • The End of Evangelion (1997)
  • Love & Pop (1998)
  • Kare Kano (1998–1999)
  • Shiki-Jitsu (2000)
  • Cutie Honey (2004)
  • Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
  • Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
  • Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
  • Shin Godzilla (2016)
  • Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
No further information seems to be available at this time.

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Postby Blockio » Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:43 pm

oooo, this sounds very promising
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Postby UrsusArctos » Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:44 pm

Very interesting. I wonder if there's any chance that Shin Ultraman will land up on that list?
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Postby AdamMalkovitch » Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:04 pm

Yoooo sick! Gunbuster never gets any love as of late! Hoping we also get more production materials from Nadia and early NGE stuff, New Theatrical stuff as well.
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Postby kuribo-04 » Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:57 am

Could I suggest putting this in the "Related People" subforum? Just so it's maybe easier to find.
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Postby Zusuchan » Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:06 am

^A good idea, probably.

Anyway, putting this here:
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A translated list of films that have supposedly influenced Anno. There's a bunch of interesting omissions (CCA, anything Miyazaki, also honestly 2001/Kubrick who I'm convinced has influenced Anno at least somewhat, ) and interesting names-strangest for me is the inclusion of literally every Roger Moore Bond movie and a simultaneous lack of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (what with its stumbling attempt at making Bond into a bit of an actual character) or even the Connery ones (certainly better than most of what Moore did, IMHO).Or maybe I just really dislike Moore's films more than most people do. Cool to see Alien there, though. Of course there's also a few expected movies-the '54 Godzilla, Andromeda Strain, The Battle of Okinawa etc.

Supposedly there's also a bunch of TV shows in that graph of influences, but they're as of yet untranslated, at least to the best of my knowledge.

Edit: Actually, come to think of it, this Moore Bond love shown here practically confirms the whole "Kaji is inspired by Bond" schtick, which I guess wasn't something that really needed to be confirmed anyway, but the really interesting fact is that Kaji was then most likely inspired more by Moore's interpretation of the character than Connery's or Lazenby's or hell, even Dalton's.

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Postby JoelcrNeto » Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:14 am

Thread moved to suggested subfórum.
By the way, it's an interesting influence list. There's one Miyazaki's work I spoted there: "Conan: the Future Boy" (未来少年コナン Mirai Shōnen Konan).
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Postby Zusuchan » Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:53 am

JoelcrNeto wrote: There's one Miyazaki's work I spoted there: "Conan: the Future Boy" (未来少年コナン, Mirai Shōnen Konan).

Well, like I said, there's also a bunch of TV shows, which were untranslated at the moment of writing, but remain so no longer! (Still, a complete absence of a single Miyazaki film is...strange, considering the dude's importance to the anime landscape and Anno's having worked directly under him.)

Anyway, the TV shows (which are all for some reason named anime):
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Pretty much almost entirely "nerdy" stuff here. Not that I necessarily dislike that, it's just an observation-considering the more abstract and weird parts of Anno's oeuvre it's quite weird that there's not many similarly weird influences listed, even though he is indeed ultimately a big geek/otaku. Interesting to note the absence of the Sailor Moon TV show, which IIRC was something Anno originally wanted to emulate when making Eva or Revolutionary Girl Utena which has a couple of pretty direct references and callbacks in NTE. Unless maybe there was some idea that the influence list couldn't go past the '80s? I also remember, for example, Anno calling Victory Gundam his favorite Gundam show, but this is also clearly missing. (Also lol at the inclusion of Tom & Jerry.)

Also a bunch of manga influences:
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Put the influences into spoiler tabs because I couldn't figure out how to link to Twitter without showing other parts of the thread, which obviously clutters the post somewhat.
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Postby hui43210 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:29 am

In regards to the absence of things like Sailor Moon and Victory Gundam, I get the impression that the list focuses primarily on works before Anno officially became a director with Gunbuster in 1988. There's not a single piece of work past 1985 in fact.

It also doesn't include anything he actually worked on, hence no Nausica or CCA. He even provided some key animation for Sailor Moon so that rules it out again. Also, Utena came 2 years after NTE, so it would not have been an influence on the original show at least.
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Postby Gendo'sPapa » Wed Oct 20, 2021 11:20 am

Surprised Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey isn't in that list. That film is all over the middle section of You Can (Not) Redo. Particularly in all the scenes in Shinji's red & white "bedroom".

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Postby kuribo-04 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:23 pm

Anno has often stated 2001 not being an influence, and apparently he hadn't even seen it before NGE.
Visual resemblances cpuld come from other staff members too.

As for Miyazaki's films, Anno used to be vocal about the films not showing Miyazaki's true potential. He loved the Nausicaa manga to death though. If manga influences were listed, it'd be there. He even went as far as saying NGE was just his Nausicaa, something like that.

I'm sure I got that stuff here.
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Postby Zusuchan » Thu Oct 21, 2021 2:07 am

hui:Your ideas about the influences only being works before Anno became a director and didn't work on is logical and explains some otherwise baffling absences. With Utena, I did mean it had direct callbacks and references in NTE/Rebuild, not in the original show or EoE.

kuribo:There's a list of manga influences too that does not actually have the Nausicaä manga on it. And even though I remember Anno saying Miyazaki's films aren't "Miyazaki enough" and preferring his storyboards or something like that, the old man's obviously still been an enormous influence on Anno, even if he'd like to deny that.

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Postby kuribo-04 » Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:35 am

Wow, that's surprising. Don't know what's going on with that.

Btw, do you have a link to the manga stuff? I'm guessing he'd have stuff like Mazinger and Devilman on it?
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Postby JoelcrNeto » Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:23 am

^ The list of manga is on this Zusuchan post.
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Postby kuribo-04 » Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:42 pm

Thank you :)
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Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
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