As shown in the “Overview” section, this studio was independently established by Anno, who participated in the production of works from the early days of Gainax and then served as a director. He frozen the new work he had envisioned in light of the internal situation of Gainax at that time.
He decided to remake “Neon Genesis Evangelion” (hereinafter “Eva”), but decided to become independent because he needed a place where he could reflect his own intentions in management and take responsibility. [9] ]. Gainax also understood that Anno was the original author of “Eva” at the time of independence.
If Gainax earned money from his work, he would sign a contract to pay royalties to Color at a certain rate, while Gainax would continue to be the contact point for copyright management and commercialization of “Eva.”
However, from around 2012, royalty payments from Gainax began to be delayed, and Anno, who received an offer for installment payments from the company’s management, accepted this. [10] In addition, two years later, he was consulted for a loan of 100 million yen to maintain the management of Gainax in a situation where payments did not proceed.
We responded unsecured and interest-free on the condition that the transfer of the commercialization window of “Eva” and the distribution business of royalties was advanced by one year and the repayment was as planned. The copyright of “Eva” was transferred to Color in 2014.
However, in April 2016, payments and repayments were delayed again, and there was no response to inquiries from the color side, so in August of the same year, a temporary seizure of claims was filed against Gainax (executed). , Filed a lawsuit to return the loan in September [12]. The case was confirmed by Color in 2017. [12] On the other hand, it turned out that Gainax had sold the materials of the past production works, and Color obtained them and entrusted the management to the specified non-profit organization “Anime Tokusatsu Archive Organization”.
In December 2019, when the then president of Gainax was arrested for scandals, it was reported that “Eva” was linked to the company, but the color was “” Eva “is our work, what is the current Gainax? It is irrelevant, “he officially issued a statement protesting. [13] [14] When the Gainax management team was renewed after the scandal, Yasuhiro Kamimura, the representative of the color copyright management company “Groundworks,” became president. [
This work is said to have caused the third anime revolution, and is one of the five most important works in the history of Japanese animation. It is also known overseas as one of Japan’s leading anime works [citation needed]. At the time of the release of the work, the structure of the story was novel in that the story of the hero’s self-consciousness and human relationships and the story of the fate of the world on an extreme scale were linked, so many works that could be called post-evangelion were produced. rear
Such works came to be called the Sekai system. [4] Furthermore, it was an early work that adopted the production committee method, and not only the success of the package media containing the main story, but also related products such as manga and figures released as part of the media mix became a hit, and the capital after this work. The number of anime broadcasts has increased rapidly in the area, mainly at midnight (the appearance of late-night anime), and the framework of anime culture since the 21st century has been established.
It was. Furthermore, it was the first anime series to express characters in an orderly manner using fonts for DTP (in the era when there were only examples of characters as hand-drawn pictures in the animation at that time, and PostScript fonts were just beginning to appear. Fontworks Matisse-EB was adopted). “Neon Genesis Evangelion” is an anime work that was broadcast in the evening, but the content is similar to the modern late-night anime,
Since there were many depictions, complaints were received from the general public who were not anime fans.
From October 4, 1995 to March 27, 1996, all 26 episodes were broadcast on the TV Tokyo Network (TXN) in the evening hours. The audience rating at the time of the broadcast was low, and after the broadcast, a novel story was controversial and caused controversy. Along with “Space Battleship Yamato” in the 1970s and “Mobile Suit Gundam” in the 1980s, it was also a third-generation anime work that influenced later anime, and triggered an explosive anime boom. In 1997, the theatrical version “Air / Magokoro to Kimi ni” (episodes 25 and 26), which depicts an ending different from the ending of the TV series version (second episode, final episode), was released. It was.
Gainax has not invested in the TV series produced by the production committee method, and the return from the video work is only the script royalties and director royalties of director Anno [5].
It is a media mix work of TV animation and manga, and the manga by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto started serializing at Kadokawa Shoten’s Shonen Ace in December 1994 (February 1995 issue) prior to TV broadcasting, and 18 years later in June 2013. Serialized in (July 2013 issue). The final book (Volume 14) was released on November 20, 2014, 19 years after the serialization started, and was completed.
In 2006, the production of all four works of the “Evangelion New Theatrical Version” series, which “rebuilt” this work with a new setting and story, was announced, and in 2007 the first work “Introduction”, 2009 The second work “Break”, the third work “Q” in 2012, and the fourth work “Shin Evangelion Theatrical Version 𝄇” were released in 2021.
The copyright holder of this work was “GAINAX / Project Eva. TV Tokyo” in the TV series version and “GAINAX / EVA Production Committee” in the movie version, but Hideaki Anno produced it in 2006. After the company color was founded, it was changed to “GAINAX color” or “GAINAX color / Project Eva.” After that, it was changed to “color” or “color / Project Eva.” From the end of 2014, which marks the 20th anniversary of television broadcasting. [6]
There are differences in the story from the latter half of the story between the TV anime version, the old movie version [Note 5], the manga version, and the new movie version.
Animation production has been changed to Tatsunoko Production alone from the rebroadcast in 2020.
Director Anno was in charge of drawing the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the God Warriors, early in his career in the anime industry, and he himself wanted to make a work centered on the God Warriors, but was rejected by Hayao Miyazaki. Therefore, it is said that Evangelion was created by quoting the characteristics of the God Warriors. [7] In fact, he is producing “Theatrical Version Appearing in Giant God Warrior Tokyo” as a short film that will be screened at the same time as the new theatrical version. Also, is the battle scene a special effect?
They are strongly influenced by [8].
