Forum - View topicINTEREST: Evangelion's Hideaki Anno: Creators Reach Their Peak Around Age 30
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penguintruth
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I disagree. Tomino made Zeta Gundam when he was in his early forties. Miyazaki was in his late fifties and early sixties when Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were released. Noboru Ishiguro was around fifty when he started directing the LoGH OVA. Mamoru Oshii was forty-two when Patlabor 2 came out.
But then, these are just my personal favorites of these directors and Anno's favs are probably different. |
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Allison Addams
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Whatever, Anno. |
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Azure Chrysanthemum
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Some of the best creatives and works are by people who couldn't even break into or become a main member in their industry in their 30's, so no, definitely do not agree with this one.
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lufia2rocks
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This would mean One Piece peaked around 2005-2006 which was around Enis Lobby. Yeah, that tracks. Pre-timeskip One Piece was great. I miss that era.
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varmintx
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I agree with Noboru Ishiguro, which if people bothered to read the article and not just the headline will find is the one that actually proposed this, as long as it's treated as a very loose generalization and not some sort of universality. Most artists do seem to have a decline the older they get, but it depends on how long it took them to get started; and some are just somehow pumping out great works for decades and decades.
More importantly, it seemed like the purpose of the answer by Anno was to motivate people to get as much shit done before 30 as they could. |
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Nobody14
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Tomino was not working on Turn A in his 30s bro, what are you on about?
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maximilianjenus
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Ano's take makes sense in the context of an exploitative industry with no possible career progression, so it checks. After 10 years of overwork your body starts giving up, and you are also likely to start having a family to focus on. And it's not like there's anywhere you can go once you made anime director/professional sports player.
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dm
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And that is so they are positioned to do great work when they get to their thirties. |
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Joe Mello
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Log off Twitter, Anno
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PipimiOden
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Article should've been titled better, just seems like you were farming engagement by not specifying physical or mental peaks.
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Nekbone
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He said this at a live in-person festival, not online |
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Daidan12
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Tomino made Turn A on his late fifties, my GOAT is just built different.
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Xristophoros
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that's an opinion...
is anno insinuating that he peaked BEFORE he worked on evangelion? if we are looking at his career, i feel like he had a lot of untapped potential and could have created some great work AFTER eva if not for his emotional burnout. his biggest problem was and continues to be that he was never able to let go of eva and move on to something else... hence why he spent 15 years remaking the eva series which to me was a cursed project no different than james cameron's avatar franchise... anno did bounce around and experiment with various live action projects but nothing he did after eva really felt like passion projects in the same way. and now anno has comissioned taro to make a spinoff of eva? why? just stop with eva already. it is such a personal work that nobody else is capable of carrying the torch anyways. good stories end definitively. there is nothing wrong with that. but back to the age thing... miyazaki was in his mid 40s before he even founded ghibli and anno is going to claim that he peaked in his 30s? absurd take! many filmmakers and anime creators don't even establish themselves in prominant roles (i.e. as a director with influence and freedom) until they hit their 40s... anyways, it is clear that every artist peaks at different stages of their life and can sometimes be at their height for several decades... it's not a subject the can be generalized or specific about. |
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Blaze_1013
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One Piece post time skip is very different from pre, but I'd argue the best content in the series is just post-timeskip, but the last decade of the series has just been Oda one upping himself in quality arc after arc. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Think it would be obvious to anyone what was meant. If the criticism didn’t make that obvious. |
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