Tag: gainax

July 3, 2020 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Now available as a free PDF from the University of Niigata, the second volume of Minori Ishida and Kim Joon Yang’s Archiving Movements continues to assemble interesting articles about the world of Japanese animation – the editors are keen to stress that their journal is open to discussions of many forms of […]

April 21, 2017 · 2 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In September 2007 I was in Tokyo at the so-called “Cinema Square” in the Shinjuku district. I saw fans queuing for one of the first screenings of the science-fiction/action film, Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone. The film was revised a bit for its home release, and renamed Evangelion 1.11; it’s this […]

January 17, 2017 · 0 comments

NOTE: As of 29th May 2017 this set is now available at all retailers including our AllTheAnime.com web shop HERE.   Gurren Lagann is a series that we know many of you out love. For some it was a gateway into anime, for others it’s simply one of the your favourite anime. But either way […]

January 1, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Takeshi Honda is an animator’s animator. When we interviewed Aya Suzuki earlier this year, she highlighted Honda for mastering both ends of the craft: huge, muscular action animation and emotionally subtle human acting. Honda has drawn gigantic, charging Evangelions, and delicately human figures for Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Hosoda and Hayao Miyazaki. “His […]

September 22, 2015 · 0 comments

by Chris Perkins. Despite being founded as recently as 2011, Studio Trigger’s modest filmography comprises some of the most talked-about anime of recent years. And a lot of the credit has to go to the studio’s co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi. Imaishi’s early career is intimately tied up with the latter-day success of Gainax. He got started […]