Hideaki Anno 1996 Interview | Neon Genesis Evangelion | Know Your Meme

RUNAWAY IDEON are my favorite anime besides YAMATO. Hayao Miyazaki, with whom I worked on NAUSICAÄ, animating the scene where the God-Soldier fires, was also a mentor to me." On recent attempts to adapt anime from novels There are many novels written today which are made with the intention that they will be animat- ed-so it's not that big a step. I think that LEG- END OF THE GALACTIC HEROES was well done, but then, it was that kind of a novel." When asked how he felt about the current trend toward Japanese historical content in manga and anime, he answered: "I have no interest in it; they are searching for a theme." Hideaki Anno returns to Anime Expo after attend- ing the very first AX, five years ago, to field ques- tions about his latest work, NEON GENESIS On computer games "I myself have no interest in them; however, I am interested in computer graphics for anima- tion." EVANGELION On how the protagonist of EVANGELION reflects Anno himself "Shinji does reflect my character, both in con- scious and unconscious part.. In the process of making EVANGELION, I found out what kind of person I am. I acknowledged that I'm a fool." On his interests and hobbies "My hobby is scuba diving, and besides science- fiction, I like to read romance novels written by VIRTUAL PANEL! MEET HIDEAKI ANNO Sound bites from Studio Gainax's director of GUNBUSTER, NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER, and the recent NEON GENESIS EVANGELION from his panel at Anime Expo 96 On his religious beliefs "I don't belong to any kind of organized reli- gion, so I guess I could be considered agnostic. Japanese spiritualism holds that there is 'kami (spirit) in everything, and that's closer to my own beliefs." When asked if he were a vegetari an, like the titular character of NADIA, or EVA's "Rei," he answered: "I like tofu. I just don't want to eat meat or fish. It's not for reli- gious reasons." On the unique appearance of the Evangelion Units "There is a monster in Japan called the oni, which has two horns sticking out of its head, and the overall image of the Eva is based on that. I wanted also to have an image that beneath the image of that robot monster is a human. It's not really a robot, but a giant human, so it's different from other robot mecha such as those in GUN- DAM." 00 On expressing himself through animation "Animation makes sense to people in the process of their seeing it. So when people get confused by my themes, or cannot get the over- all message, the connection is not really going through, because it didn't satisfy that person. So there would be less meaning for that individual. There has to be a relationship that comes into being between the person watching and what the character's saying in the animation itself." On the GUNBUSTER's alternate future-is it dominated by Russia? "There's a Japanese Empire. In the year 2000, the U.S. and Japan had a war, and Japan occu- pied Hawai. Sorry." PRETTY WOMEN Anno names Asuka (above) his favorite EVANGELION character because "she's cute."When told that the American audience tend- ed to favor Misato (left), he answers, "'m surprised. In Japan, the overwhelming favorite is Rei (above left). They can't handle strong women such as Misato and Asuka. On what he thought of PATLABOR 2 and GHOST IN THE SHELL "I haven't seen GHOST yet, but I think that PATLABOR is really good. I liked the scenes better in the second film." On the decision to have the final episode of GUNBUSTER in black-and-white "When you have color, you have an extra dimension of information. Color would have gotten in the way of the sense of scale we want- ed to portray with the black-hole bomb. Also no one had ever done it before." On EVANGELION's success "As for all the merchandising, it's just a matter of economics. It's strange that EVANGELION has been a hit. Everyone in it is sick!" women. Since I'm a male, I don't really know the emotions of women. And because I want to understand their feelings, and create more realis- tic female characters, this is something I have to pursue. On the date 2015 which figures in both GUN- BUSTER and EVANGELION "This date is from an old show I liked as a kid, and it was also the year in which TETSUWAN ATOM took place." On his next project "Another TV show, probably some kind of space adventure." To an American fan who boasted of having spent all his schoolbook money on anime goods... You're a fool. Study harder. If I could go back in time and tell my college-age self something, I would tell him to study harder, too." On his favorite American animation On THE WINGS OF HONNEAMISE "The director of HONNEAMISE, Hiroyuki Yamaga, is pretty serious as a matter of charac- ter, certainly-so he doesn't really think of com- promising with the audiences. Therefore it wasn't a radical film from the Yamaga's perspec- tive. There's something like a sequel planned but it's been stopped for now. Yamaga wants to make it 'the final anime of this century.' He wants to make it happen." "Tex Avery, Tom and Jerry. I don't like Disney." On anime creators who inspired him "Outside of my staff, Mr. Yoshiyuki Tomino. Tomino's MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM and SPACE On where he would like to travel "I want to see the universe, outer space-it's one of the places I want to go while I'm still living. When I was a child...I thought that it would be possible to go out into space when I grew up. And that's not possible now. But I'd like to go to the moon, or ride on the Space Shuttle." DENIAL IS NOT JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT When asked about EVANGELION's last two episodes, which upset many fans, Anno coolly replied, "I have no problem with them. If there's a problem, it's ll with you guys. Too bad. On the future of the anime industry "The creators have to change their frame of mind for the field to advance. And that doesn't look too hopeful in today's Japan. It's in a criti- cal condition right now. I don't think there's any bright future. That's because the people who are producing it are not doing well. But there's also problems in the people who are watching it. The people who make it, and the people who want it, they're always wanting the same things. They've been making only similar things for the past ten years, with no sense of urgency. To get it going once more, you need to force people to go outside, to go out again." On getting into the anime industry "If you want to get into anime, my best advice to you as a creator is to please have diverse inter- ests in things besides animation. Look outward, first of all. Most anime makers are basically autistic. They have to try and reach out, and truly communicate with others. I would guess that the greatest thing anime has ever achieved is the fact that we're holding a dialogue right here and now." ANIMERICA 27 Vol 4, No. 9 NEON GENESIS EVANGELION @ Gainax Project Eva TV Tokyo NAS Photo: Jeff Okamoto

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