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mdo7
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Wow, that's very interesting to read. I always wondered what's the inspiration for Evangelion, glad to see a interview with Anno.
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penguintruth
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So I did a Ctrl+F and couldn't find Space Runaway Ideon or Childhood's End in what he said. But I guess inspirations and influences aren't necessarily the same.
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Lili-Hime
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Bless you penguin sama. A few tidbits for the people accussing Anno of being a money grubbing sell out in the last Anno article. "Hopefully I can help the culture and art of anime become even bigger and contribute to society in some way, leave something that will last." "I just want to continue making stimulating movies and I'd like to give something back to the industry. "Japanese animation is not just for kids," said the 54-year-old. "Watching his [Miyazaki's]approach to filmmaking—he sacrificed himself for his work. His principle was that his art was everything, the movie was more important than anything. That was special." |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Didn't see Ultraman there either. Next he'll say Danguard Ace and Aim for the Ace didn't inspire Gunbuster, but I doubt he even remembers what Gunbuster is, too much Evangelibucks to make via commercialism whilst also complaining about commercialism.
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Fronzel
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The wisdom of which he displayed a profound skepticism towards in The Wind Rises. |
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Usagi-kun
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Very interesting. I did not realize the Anno-sensei was in his fifties. It makes me think we are going to need a successor to the successor next on deck in case something happens.
I understand the medium is one that takes years to yeild levels of expertise, precision, and different measures of success. But for some reason, I just pictured the panel where Zetsubou-sensei was being followed, and the follower was being followed, and that follower had a follower, so on down the street until all the good hiding places were taken. We'll see what happens in the next ten years and if the cycle of Master and Apprentice continues, or manifests into a trend worthy of our super shiny, global media consortium. Hopefully we are past the post-nuclear apocalypse scenario, at least as a realistically prevalent fear rather than fictional plot device. |
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Gehirn
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Clearly Anno is talking about the setting and nature here, and obviously not EVERY single influence. Otherwise you guys above seem to forget to criticise him for not mentioning other influences like Freudian psychology, Christianity, etc. or do people just like to complain about him for the sake of it?
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CoreSignal
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I'd also add that anyone who thinks Anno is a troll should take a look at this.
Seriously. He's mentioned plenty of his other influences in past interviews, not sure why everyone is on his case based on this ONE, short interview. Some insightful comments from Anno overall, but I wouldn't expect anything less. Both Miyazaki, and Anno have lots of Cold War, apocalyptic imagery in their works. You can really see it in Nausicaa and Evangelion. And I don't think a live-action Evangelion would work, either. By way, who compared him to George Lucas!? Star Wars and Evangelion are complete opposites. |
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Fronzel
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That's right; it's Tomino who's George Lucas. |
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Kaioshin_Sama
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He mentions the cold war and the threat of nuclear annihilation which was clearly the inspirational theme and undercurrent behind Space Runaway Ideon which pretty much everyone knows by this point is the key inspiration for Evangelion so I guess that's pretty much the same thing. Better he cite the real life events then the works that they inspired and go back to the original source on this one IMO.
I don't really see the comparison. Tomino always stuck with traditional hand drawn animation in his field including with G-Reco while George Lucas couldn't wait to abandon practical effects for CGI the moment the opportunity presented itself and it came convenient. Lucas was also clearly motivated by Titanic and it's commercial successes using cutting edge SFX to make the Star Wars prequels while Tomino was clearly inspired by currently ongoing events in Japanese politics as well as his old comrade Miyazaki attempting to tackle those issues with the Wind Rises to come back and try to give his own critique on those policies. I think people unfortunately completely misunderstand the kind of Director and person Tomino is in this weird mad rush to bury the guy who is bloody 72 years of age and busting his ass to tell the story he wants to tell with Reconguista in G. Yeah he made some off hand comments that were kind of bitter towards younger generations, but at the same time I can totally appreciate where he's coming from with them and that the man is totally committed to his work for the works sake, and not out of commercial interests like a George Lucas or frankly most of the current industry establishment. |
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MarshalBanana
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In a recent interview with Manga Uk he said Thunder Birds inspired Tokyo 3
http://mangauk.com/post.php?p=hideaki-anno-interview |
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Jayhosh
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Hideaki Anno and Hayao Miyazaki are two of my favorite people. They're both very wise. I wish more people currently working in the anime field were actually interesting human beings rather than just more shut ins.
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enurtsol
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penguintruth
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As bad as the Zeta Gundam movies were, I wouldn't ever compare Tomino to Lucas. |
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Fronzel
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I elaborated in another post but it mysteriously disappeared. |
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