Which formula are we talking about? The casting of ikemen doing the male bonding and suffering stuff is still pretty much in place in recent shows. Also it is not just the Japanese housewives - the kamen rider show is shown on Sat or Sun morning, so a lot of young unmarried female are among the vie...

One thing that might shock Kamen Riders fans is that it is now a girly thing if you like Kamen Riders!! OK, I exaggerated; but the fact is that these days girls and women take up quite significant portion of the watcher demography of Kamen Riders since Kamen Rider Ryuki days (perhaps even earli...

Tsurumaki said something along the lines of "They say it isn't panties so it's not embarrassing* but as I thought - these are definitely panties!" but it's only one I recall. *catchphrase for the show I don't know about any book in particular but it's not surprising sin...

Do you mean it came up before Our War Game. No I just meant before Summer Wars. Also I think Anno along Tsurumaki+Imaishi+Sadamoto has commented on Strike Witches in public (I could be getting this wrong) before but that it was more humorous and to support a friend. The blog posts are about...

I knew Murakami's influence/relationship with Hosoda went back earlier but Our War Game I watched in some ancient subyoutube-quality encode so I can't recall the look of the internet world. As everyone might remember Strike Witches director is a Gainax guy and the character designer on Mahoromatic a...

I still remember the good-will Yamakan had after Haruhi and people thinking him being fired from Kyoani spelled doom and gloom for the companies future direction. I'm sure it's better than Clannad. I like that it has scored 6s and 7s. Like people thinking it's honestly good, just not too...

I caught up on Guilty Crown by watching episode six and seven. During the sixth I could for the first time understand where complaints about this show come from. The storytelling from the both script and direction was lazy and unclear to the point that I had trouble telling what was going on or at l...

More pointedly and alarmingly there's Angel Cop OVA from early 90s by Ichiro Itano, Anno's friend and mentor, which has at the heart of the conspiracies and plottings a worldview where USA is afraid of rising Japan and now the meek Japanese politicians have "sold out" Japan to JEWS contro...

As Carl Horn points out there the baby in that comic is Moyocco's signature self portrait. Here's a figure version of the charming couple

It came up on khara's twitter: 庵野家の愛猫の正しい名前は「庵野マイティジャック」です http://twitter.com/#!/khara_inc/status/109648760...

Many fans of Nanoha says the show doesn't get good until the seventh episode and that the film version is preferable but I thought the cat episode was better than anything that followed. But the second season was surprisingly good. In honour of the great man who called FLCL pretentious I watched...

I knew I should have been more careful about sources but I couldn't be bothered to look them up when I wrote that. But after some googling... Q (in English): 2009 announced at Fanimecon 3 projects (e.g., an Abenobashi special). Any news? A (Hiroyuki Yamaga): Tadashi Hiram...

Come to think of it, his statement's rather similar to when Anno said he doesn't like to direct, mentioning that he decided to direct Gunbuster only because he was moved to tears by Yamaga's script for the second episode and it wouldn't have gotten made otherwise. Correct me if I...

Thanks for finding this gwern. This conversation is insanely quotable. Also conte is ekonte i.e. the storyboard. And while both Anno and Izubuchi are friends with Birdie creator Masami Yuki I'm sure the Mighty he imagines landing in Tokyo is Mighty Jack. As proof of this I'll point to the si...

thanks for translating that symbv. :w00: Could getting Anno to comment on Madoka be a smart way to ease tension between certain "anti-factions"? Back when Madoka was about to finish there was this feeling that it was supposed to "beat" Eva in some way. It's something both sid...

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Well, since then it seems that at least Imaishi and Tsurumaki have left Gainax. Well Tsurumaki left Gainax years ago together with Anno and Masayuki. I heard they have their own company now. But the rumor currently going around is that Imaishi, Yoshinari, Otsuka and Sushio have all left. Then there...

Thank you for all the translations! Anno's comment about Star Trek reminds of Octavia Butler When I was young, a lot of people wrote about going to another world and finding either little green men or little brown men, and they were always less in some way. They were a little sly, or a little li...

Anno's contribution to the Bonbori Matsuri reveals the 3.0 logo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakura%27s_festivals_and_events#August
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http://twitpic.com/627mgb

Thanks for the information. I've had difficulty finding out much about those OVAs and at some point I will probably be revamping my History of Gainax convention panel to include stuff like this. Do you have any good sources for this stuff? That these OVA's were done more or less completely ...