So now that his Godzilla proved a success, is he going to abandon

>>144931898
He already did that after Evangelion.
He'll come back to anime

Anno think anime doesn't have a future

>>144932450
But he can't let it go.

He thinks Taiwan is where the future of Asian animation lies.

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>>144931898

>YFW he goes to Pixar

no he'll make the next eva movie in a week with inferno-cop style animation

>>144932526
>Next eva movie is a puppet show.
>All robots are actual merchandise that can be bought

>>144931898
3.33 was the last Evangelion, he's been gone since 2012.

>>144932623
Is that a cuter version of Kayo?

>>144932677
Still no Misato toys though

>>144931898
Godzilla proved a success when it first released. this is just another remake anon. He cant take much credit for using someone elses work

>>144933154
It's being well received though, so there's that at least.

>>144932898
Kayo it's a bitch

>>144933154
He did the same thing with Evangelion.

>>144931898
I think he'll try to direct a some kind of toku series

>>144933625
worked for uroboochy

>>144933921
Gaim kinda fell apart a bit by the end though.

>>144932852
>implying Anno will ever move on from Evangelion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0DayCP5Q60

>>144934308
wow. This guy.

>>144932526
>Taiwan
Who?

>>144934753
Japan bitch, people called them weeaboo

>>144932526
>future of animation
>never made anything worthwhile other than the typical harem shit bootleg anime ripoff
Damn, asian is doomed

>>144932623
Not a chance, he's dissed Disney in the past.

>>144934928
Great manufacturing centers always start out with shit quality and rip-offs

>>144934392
It's tradition, he used Kare Kano and Nadia music in the Rebuild films.

>>144932898
>BokuMachi invented Japanese girls wearing red jackets with scarfs
End your life please

Anno is the master of trolling so no.

>>144935351
>It's tradition
The tradition of sagisu being a lazy bum?

>>144935705
I fucking love it.

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>>144932526
>Taiwan

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>>144933625
>Anno Toku
Not sure if want

>>144935840
Its great.
>>144932526
I hope they dont go full mandarin.

>>144935705
It's probably 50% laziness, and 50% hat tip to the otaku
So, very Gainax.

>>144935879
Give him Ultraman.

>>144935287
Yeah it's been like this century already. Chink can't do anything other than ripoff anyway

>>144935904
Are you okay?

The final rebuild is never going to be made, is it?

>>144932526
Urobutcher way ahead of the game

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>he makes a live-action eva adaptation

>is he going to abandon anime
Because he hasn't done live-action before, right?

>>144931898
he said just a few days ago that doing Godzilla was a needed creative break from Eva, that he can now go back to Evangelion

>>144935879
Anno loves that shit. Ever seen the God Warrior short?

>>144932526
Anywhere that have animators not fixated on moe waifus will be the future of anime. Japanese animation is saturated by this style and it stinks. Mecha anime especially got hit with this. I haven't seen a mecha anime in the past decade which wasn't filled with androgynous male pilots or cute girls doing cute things pilots. The age of GAR MCs is over.

>>144937030
The rebuilds are shit while The Giant God Warrior was based as fuck and Godzilla seems to be fucking great by the Japanese reviews. Evangelion take the worst from Anno, it should end with End of Evangelion anyway

>>144938101
The problem is not really about the lack of GAR MCs. The real problem is that kids stopped giving a shit about mechas many years ago so modern mechas are fetishes remix with some mechas thrown around for selling toys to the otakus

>>144938628
Evangelion was a very personal work informed by Anno's mental state at that point in his life. It's impossible for Anno to recreate it now - if he was going to go back to the well he should have made something more radically different. 3.0 was an attempt to push it that way, but it was too late, and the pacing was fucked.

Eva should have been left in the past, but the money and MUH LEGACY was too much to leave it alone I guess.

>>144938832
My inner nerd will always be angry with Anno for the rebuilds but I try to see it on this way, without the rebuilds breaking the box office, Toho would never entrust Godzilla to Anno.

>>144938743
>kids stopped giving a shit about mechas many years ago
What plebs, one must appreciate both mechanical machinations and moe.

That is the way of the true connoisseur.

>>144938832
He wasn't trying to recreate it. In fact, he said that it was difficult to change the story because retelling it the same way was the most natural thing for him and it was like he was fighting the person he was 10 years ago.

>>144939141
I can't be, with all the subtle callbacks to his previous works it's too crazy to dislike.

I can see how you would if you didn't recognize any of it.

>>144935840
What is this supposed to convey?

>>144939233
Rebuild is a weird fucking thing. What is it? It was pitched as a four film retelling of the series with a new ending. Ok. But the first film is a shortened clone of the first arcs, going as far as reusing the same shots, until the final battle. The second film is a movie version of Evangelion, along the lines of what was first promised. Close to that part of the show, but modernised (for better of worse). The third movie is a what the fuck that tries to radically change the story just before ending. Instead of using the four film format to slowly build up the characters and world, they now have to spend the majority of the length establishing a completely different world and character dynamics.

Playing it by ear is what Anno does, but that works a lot better when you can gradually change things up in an episode by episode format. It doesn't feel like they really knew what they wanted to make with the Rebuild movies.

>>144939652
At least it's more interesting this way.

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>>144936826

With Death-Note and Attack on Titan having come out, I'm amazed there hasn't been an live action Eva, Japanese or Western.

>Imagining a Hollywood version of Eva

Fucking kill me now

>>144939796
>Neon Genesis Evan-jel-on
>Screenplay by David S. Goyer
>Directed by Michael Bay
>Executive Producer: M. Night Shyamalan
>Rated R for coarse language, crude humor and sexual content

>>144939930
>tfw Robin Williams will never be part of an American Eva

he already abandoned evangelion

Final is never going to come out

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>>144939796
ADV almost got it moving in the early 2000s and commissioned Weta to do concepts, with the plan that they'd do the effects. They met with directors and screenwriters but it got lost in development hell.

I feel like dumping the concepts, starting with the funniest

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>>144939997

He would actually have been a great Gendo based on his dramatic work.

>>144939930

>Angels are renamed as 'demons' to not offend Christians
>All the characters are scaled up to 18 so we can have sexy time without the American public getting uncomfortable
>Shinji saves the day by fighting his dad who is also piloting an Eva, hence stopping Third Impact

>>144940013
I liked the suit designs the and techno-organic looking Evas weren't that bad, but
>Ray
>Kate Rose
>Susan Whitnall

>>144940013

>That Asuka face
>Black haired Rei

>>144940173
It's worth noting that at the concept art stage character names go through all sorts of temporary names. Hell, sometimes some names are not set until the ADR stage. These names might even have been used to keep things quiet.

That's not to say that they wouldn't "Americanize" all the names in the ends though.

>>144940173
The mecha, Nerv, Tokyo-3 concepts look great, but Susan's suit (heh) looks HORRIBLE

>>144940126
They are basically aliens so why not call them that? It sounds similar too.

>>144940211
There is some black haired Rei concept art somewhere. It was alright.

>>144940329
The Submerged City is my favorite piece out of all the concept art.

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>>144940013
Damn, that's a hot ENIGMATIC CAT SPIRIT.

>>144940566
>>144940620
>>144940774
That's the stuff

>>144940831
Unit 02 is pretty spot-on

>AFTER the last Evangelion

>Anno previously commented on the final film [...] and joked that there might end up being a 4-6 year gap between the third and fourth films

The absolute madman.

If a company could pull the effects off it would be Weta. Its too bad the rest of the adaptation would be so fucking terrible and half assed it would be worse than the dragonball movie.

>>144941022
He'd probably been contacted by Toho by then

>>144939448
warau

>>144940306
There are two Nerv bases set in America. They could easily do an Eva side-story with an American setting but you know they'd want the three main Evas.

>>144931898
>So now that his Godzilla proved a success
[citation needed]
The premiere had more than half seats empty, you need at least a week to gauge whether it will be a success or not and right now most people agree that while it is a good movie it's not a good Zilla movie, a lot of people also didn't like his shameless autoreferences.

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>>144939796
I think what's stopped it from happening is that it's just too expensive. It's beyond what can be done on Japanese live action production values (though if it had been released for the first time now they might have given it an AoT like shot) and too risky a concept for a Hollywood tentpole blockbuster.
Pacific Rim was out there for Hollywood and even that disappointed at the box office.

I'd like to see Anno do another original. His shit always had weak starts with good endings. I want to see how his directing changed since his last work.

I know he was the supervising director to Puchi Puri Yuushi, and that was my favorite Gainax.

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>>144941704
these are some really bad butts

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>>144941660
One of the reasons he took a break from anime the first time around was that he couldn't get funding for a Star Trek-like starship adventure show he wanted to make.
These days his name could get anything made so it's a shame he spends his time on Rebuild.

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>>144941978
I don't know what they were thinking with this one. Her original outfit would look great in live action.

Closing out with a good one.

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>>144932677
I'd pay to watch that.

>>144939930
But the original Evanjellyon did have crude humor and sexual content. I imagine that a faithful live action adaptation would be rated R.

>>144940126
But Gendo didn't have any chocking scenes though.

>>144942035
Misato's outfit is so fucking easy too. It's just a black/brown dress or jeans with a red leather jacket.

>>144940126
>>Shinji saves the day by fighting his dad who is also piloting an Eva, hence stopping Third Impact
I think this is how most people imagine the show ending when they watch the first episode.

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>>144942035
>Her original outfit would look great in live action.
There have been plenty of decent cosplays, even (spoiler for 3D) -- it's not like it requires magic fabric like most costumes.

>>144941660
>I'd like to see Anno do another original
Kunihiko Ikuhara expressed his own sentiment that he would like to work with Anno on a anime someday. They are purportedly close friends, I'd like to see those two collaborate together on a original.

>>144935287
It's already filled with otakus that blindly follows Japan's taste. If Japan stop making shit they would just stop watching it instead of trying to make it themselves.

If anime actually dies, the majority will just move on to the western style 3D animation. It won't be resurrected anywhere. But it's not happening soon.

>>144942398
That face though

>>144942398
Cosplays I've seen all look cheap though, would be nice to see it pulled off with a budget.

>>144942268
Adam would take over Gendo's body and become the Giant of Light again for a final boss battle with Unit 01.

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>>144942405
Knowing how Anno has been desperately trying to attract Ikuni to work with him -- even calling a character in NGE "Rei" after Hino Rei -- that would be interesting.

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>>144942479
Like the unseen outer world parts of the TV ending, perhaps?

let him do a ultraman series next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZBt6wTNe0

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>>144942479

>"You did it Shinji! You stopped third impact!" - whichever one of the main female characters the writers decide to hook Shinji up with.

>Shinji: "That's what you can do if you just believe in yourself!"

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>>144939796
There's already a live action of Eva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDr1scwNC78

>>144942816

Why do most modern Japanese movies look like student films?

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>>144939796
A fully CGI movie/serious could be neat too. The Evas look really cool with high detail

>>144942948
That's how big their budget is.

>>144942816
My man, great film. Anno even cast the director as the lead in his live action film Shiki-Jitsu.

>>144942559
In a way, I'm glad Kuni declined because Utena may have not been made. And, I like Anno's persistence too.
>Kaworu is Kuni
>Shinji is Anno
He really did try to get him involved.

>>144941821
He's probably taking a break now that Shin Godzilla is out.

>>144943146
It would in all likelihood suck. Their visions are too distinctive to mesh well together. Ikuni is also known for being hard to work with. It would be a clash of egos for the ages.

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>>144934308
Come on.
COME OOOOOOOOOON.
I love the shit out of that song, but it's an evangelion song.

Which sub group should I use for Eva?

Anno forgives me but I doubt he will ever be able to top this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmZJiBZtahk

>>144944684
With a real budget he easily could, going by EoE.

That was one of the only good scenes in the film, so I don't doubt he's made a better overall film.

>>144944684
That movie was so boring. Why does everyone praise it so much?

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>>144944795
As much as I like EoE we already see what an unrestricted budget allowed Anno to do, fucking 3.33.

>>144944842
>boring
How is last day of summer vacation going?

>>144945642
It's a little silly that you're criticizing 3.33 and in the same post insulting someone who's criticizing the most recent American Godzilla movie.

>>144945642
Anno is less hands on with Rebuild direction, largely overseeing Tsurumaki, Masayuki and Mahiro Maeda. 3.33 is a mess, outside of art direction.

Anno is an amazing director with a huge imagination for bizarre visuals. I've no doubt he'd concoct something mindblowing with Godzilla 2014 CG budget. Look at the acension/Tree of Life scene or Komm Susser Todd in EoE, or the Zeruel battle in episode 18, or the Ramiel battle in 1.0.

>>144931898
>In contrast, Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku
>from Kotaku

What a surprise...

>>144945642
Godzilla is actually a boring movie though. The only interesting character is killed off like 30 minutes in and replaced with his shit boring son. The rest is just a series of action setpieces that we have little investment in because the person we're experiencing these events through is basically just an observer for the most part.

>>144941451
>my anus hurts

>>144945871
I like Komm susser tod, but it still is just a pop 4 chord song. You can't match that with such a refined contemporary classic composer like György Ligeti.

>>144939930
You wish, faggot. It'd get pg13'd.

>>144945995
Exactly. Godzilla fight at end was cool though.

Cranston was so intense, such a dumb decision to replace him with generic military meathead. They'd already killed off his wife to give him motivation, why does that lead to him being killed off to motivate his son?

>>144946110
I'm talking about the concept and direction of the sequence

Or am I being trolled

>>144945995
>The rest is just a series of action setpieces that we have little investment in because the person we're experiencing these events through is basically just an observer for the most part.

That is an issue of the thematic of the movie not of direction or scriptwriting: How powerless we are towards nature. Something that 1998's Godzilla completely threw into the garbage.

Not saying the 2014 movie was a masterpiece, but I pretty much preferred the tension buildup and a minimum coherent plot than just some over the top action nonsense destruction 2 hours marathon.

>>144946212
Direction also includes the choice of the music and how it is explored with the visual and the narrative. That scene from 2014 is exceptional, the Komm susser tod sequence is awesome, but not exceptional in a cinematic sense.

Ideon is better

>>144945995
I always just assumed people don't actually care for the characters and just want to see Godzilla do cool stuff which is why the movie got praised.

Like other anons already said, Cranston was good. The rest of the cast was boring as fuck. Though as I said, I assume the characters are just an excuse to have a "plot" which leads to cool Godzilla action and overall people just don't really care as long as they get said action.

>>144946262
>That is an issue of the thematic of the movie not of direction or scriptwriting: How powerless we are towards nature.
That could have been done with interesting human characters instead of a cast full of blank and boring nobodies.

>>144934308
>mfw mt dad wants to see the new movie but doesn't even know who anno is op what eva is
It's so hard not to sperg out and tell him about it, because he loves that style of sci-fi storytelling but hates anime.

>>144946335
>the Komm susser tod sequence is awesome, but not exceptional in a cinematic sense.
Beg to differ. It's a very ambitious montage that cuts between personal and global scaled conflict, with gorgeous compositions and genuinely original horror visuals. It evokes multiple emotions: dread, despair,, disgust, and acceptance of death. It opens and closes with abstract imagery. It's pretty exceptional and about as show offy as direction gets, while still serving the narrative.
And as for the music, it's used in a contrapuntal way to add a level of irony to proceedings. During an apocalypse sequence.