is he the greatest living director?

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Sure if your parents are siblings

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He and Lynch.
Only 2 left.

>>87669783
>someone spent time making this.

>>87669783
>Anno
>one-trick pony
pick one and only one

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>>87669881
This.
Watch his early Tokusatsu films (Daicon-era), then Love & Pop, then Shiki-Jitsu, then Cutie Honey, then Shin Godzilla and tell me it's a "one trick pony".

>>87670051
There's also his television work: Nadia, Gunbuster, NGE, and His and Her Circumstances. He's also a talented artist and voice actor as he has shown through his work on some of Miyazaki's films. If anything he isn't given enough credit.

>>87669747

Nope. Rebuild proofs he is a hack.

>>87670732
Why do people pretend the Rebuilds are some crime against art? While not as good as the source material, they're perfectly fine movies.

I only know him for NGE tbqh but EoE is one of my favourite movies of all time.

>>87670839

Well to be honest only the last Rebuild is truly horrid. It felt like a toy commercial.

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>>87670551
Yeah I wasn't including his animation work.
I also love Ebichu and Re:Cutie Honey.

>>87669747
Just finally got around to watching End of Evangelion like two days ago. I hate to say the word but it really was KINO

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Were the members of SEELE supposed to be Jewish?

>>87671108
They all look like concept art for the Batman Penguin

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>>87671108
I remember there was a theory about Keel Lorentz being the biblical Wandering Jew, and that's why he wants instrumentality to happen so badly: it's his only way out.

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evangelion, gunbuster, and kare kano are all some of my favorite shows of all time

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>>87671054
>Re:Cutie Honey
Did he have any involvement with the OVA? I know he directed the live-action movie that came out around the same time. And the actress is a cute! Cute!

>>87670839
obsessive fan mentality

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>>87671526
As far as I know he directed these OVAs as well, yes.
Sato is very cute and sexy, but I'm partial to Mikako.

>>87670977
>Well to be honest only the last Rebuild is truly horrid.
Some people will tell you it's the best. That 2.0 strayed too far from genuine EVAness and that you're supposed to be as disoriented as Shinji.

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>>87669747
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUKkG3NAhc

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>>87672203
How does his wife put up with him?

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Studio: Gainax
Director: Hideaki Anno
Writer: Hideaki Anno
OST Composer: Hideaki Anno

A watermelon falls in love with a truck.

Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with a image hash. Never minding the strange thread, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the truck he called is not the same truck he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the truck's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the watermelon's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most smug kaworu and asuka shitposts in order to equip the other with the QUALITY coding they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, TUMBLING ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the MASTER ANNO.

>>87669747
>recreate NGE without Eva, make Godzilla all the angels
>sell it as a movie


No only plebs like anno. He was more creative in rebuild than shin.

>>87672489
SASUGA MASTER ANNO

>>87672571
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>87672489
>>>/a/

>>87670977
foolproof pleb detector

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>>87672489
>implying Anno hasn't already written Keit-ai

Asuka Langley Soryu falls in love with Shinji Ikari.

Unable to confess, she is gifted with by a deus ex machina with Shinji's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, she immediately calls him, and is overjoyed to find out that he has a crush on her as well.

But, the next day, when she recounts the previous day's confessions to Shinji, he only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, she finds out that the boy he called is not the same boy he fell in love with. In fact, he doesn't exist in this universe at all. He is Shinji's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with Asuka's own AU self, Asuka Shikinami Langley, who is perfectly aware of his crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, THIRD IMPACT ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the KIMOCHI WARUI.

>>87672283

I feel like the fact that she draws herself as a literal baby in those strips is a sign she doesn't view herself particularly highly.

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>>87672489
>>87672678

Keit-ai is already a webcomic. Stop posting it.

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825

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>>87672571
Neon Genesis Evangelion + Gojira (1954) = Shin Godzilla
Satirical commentary on Fukushima with Godzilla replacing the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor meltdown and a more grounded version of the cast from NGE replacing the romantic triangle from the original Godzilla film.

>>87672811
>more grounded version of the cast from NGE
what meaningful thematic similarities were there?

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>>87672908
NGE and Shin Godzilla tackle two different subjects. NGE is about learning to accept yourself and engage with the world around you. Shin Godzilla is about the Japanese dealing with their own shortcomings (namely the inefficiency of bureaucracy) and standing up for itself in the face of catastrophe. However, the meeting scenes between Higuchi and his colleagues are reminiscent of how Anno handled the sixth episode of NGE. Plus Operation Yashiori is similar in naming and general concept to Operation Yashima. The two main female characters are often compared to Rei and Asuka. Lastly, Shin Godzilla borrows a couple of songs from Eva.

>>87673231
so in other words the (admittedly significant) similarities are stylistic and not in the characters or their portrayal

>>87673269
Yeah. Similarities are largely stylistic. Closest thing to characters from Eva are Patterson (ambitious and attractive foreign female character similar to certain red-headed characters seen in Eva and Gunbuster) and Hiromi (literally live-action Rei minus differences in hair color and age).

>>87673524
>Patterson
aside from being mixed she was more like misato if anyone, the whole mix of professional and playful mannerism.

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>>87672489
Why is /a/ so terrible at making memes?

>>87669881
This

Anno is one of the most versatile directors there are. It's hard to think the director of https://youtu.be/PCVg49Ff9m4 also made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVeKyqV1jWU
And he does it not only between different works, but also within the same series. Episode 16 of Kare Kano is the perfect example of how good he is at changing tones without it feeling jarring.

>>87672489
Stop posting that because it's already a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139

>>87669783
>one trick pony is a bad thing

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

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>>87673716
>the whole mix of professional and playful mannerism
On a somewhat related note, there was supposed to be romantic subplot. Though Anno cut it out in favor of the hyper-focusing on the titular character and commentary. I'm assuming the romance was going to be between Yaguchi and Patterson as they seem to have more than a professional interest in one another.

>>87673730
Jesus Christ the Youtube comments on End of Evangelion videos... I don't know what's worse the 12 year old pleb anime fans going on about "Le emo Shinji sucks XD" or the pseudo intellectuals with their overly complicated pretentious analyses.

>>87669783
You can tell towards the end they just started throwing random people onto the poster

>>87674161
>he pseudo intellectuals with their overly complicated pretentious analyses
got examples?

>>87674161
>reading the comments in the first place
Why would you do that to yourself?

>>87674053
feels like cutting it was the right decision desu

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>>87671702
Never has my opinion on a woman varied so wildly until I discovered this chick. Sometimes I find her cute and other times... I don't think it's make-up. Anyway, there a couple of nice looking ladies in Shin Godzilla. Pic related

>>87669783
Whoever made this should submit their amazing films or music to compare and contrast against this list. I mean, someone with such clarity should be able to produce works better than all of these individuals, right? Or at least reproduce with ease one of these talentless hack's works....

Or to the like minded, what's in your portfolio? Youtube/Soundcloud link to your 7 out of 5 star cinema you've made, or cult classic album you've recorded? We'd like to roast--I mean--objectively critique it.

>>87674722
Giv rainbow pusi

>>87670732
The Rebuilds are a meta commentary on the culture surrounding Eva and anime. 2.0 is everything Eva's not, everything Anno dislikes about anime and Japanese culture, and then 3.0 is a whiplash return to Eva and its themes in their most distilled, blunt forms. 2.0 is full of happiness and clichés and meaningless action and heroic Shinji, and 3.0 has almost no storytelling, very few main characters, and a pervading sense of confusion and mistrust. The whole thing is a bait-and-switch, and I think people (or some of them) will understand after 3.0+1.0 is finally out.

>>87674962
Have they explained why it's called 3.0+1.0 and not just 4.0?

>>87675010
I don't think so. I remember hearing rumors there's going to be a 3.0+2.0 next and the naming convention will somehow have something to do with that, but who knows.

>>87673730
>Ryusei Kacho
what did I just watch?

>>87674962
Or maybe they are just light entertaining movies for a younger generation made to sell toys

>>87675010
four is an unlucky number because it's pronounced like the word for death, anno likes odd naming schemes (3.0/3.33 ect), themes of repetition (could even go out on a limb and say it ties into the first aspect by being emblematic of rebirth instead of death)

or maybe none of the above, who knows

>>87675140
They can be made for more than one reason.

Shin Godzilla
Shin = シン
シン/真 = True
シン/新 = New
シン/神 = God
シン/震 = Quake

>>87675243
If it were called anything else other than evangelion people would just see it and accept it for what it is instead of forcing whatever satyrical meaning makes them feel intelligent on it.
Do you think the evangelion dating sims are a satire of dating sims? Do you think the official porn mahjong games are a statement on consumistic society? It has always been a multimedia franchise and they just made a new product to keep the brand alive

>>87675349
>satyrical
So you're saying Evangelion is GOAT?

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>>87675066
The Master's magnum opus

>>87669747
Dean Cain isn't a director, retard

>>87675988
Nostalgia and memes aside, what is Anno's greatest work?

>>87677756
love & pop

>>87678297
Haven't seen that one. What about it appeals to you enough to call it his best?

>>87671108
long noses are a sterotype of all foreigners / westerners in Japanese culture, not just Jewish

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Anno is pretty fucking underrated as a film director since most only know him for eva

>>87674807
>you can't criticise a drama unless you can make a drama
>you can't criticise a building unless you can build a building

>>87680520
Yeah. He has been involved with a lot over his long career.

>>87671108
They are religious extremists. So yes.

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>"What would be ideal is that kids who watch it start to vomit, but they didn't even get a small nausea. That should have made them sick. Because if I think it's better to show repugnant things just as they are. If we succeed to transmit the emotion that atrocious things are atrocious, it's mission succeeded. When someone tells me "It's too horrible, too violent", that pleases me, because it's a healthy and normal reaction. When they tell me "I cannot watch, it's too much", I say "Okaaaaay!" (Laughs)."

What did he mean by this?

No.

He made an amazing work with Evangelion, especially the last 10 episodes and the movie, and that creative peak energy spilt over into his portion of Kare Kano. His earlier series are good, but less so (though the finale of Gunbuster is amazing). Shiki Jitsu and Love and Pop were very good but not quite cohesive enough to match his best achievements. Cutie Honey was fun trash, could have been better. Godzilla was good.

Just based on the above I'd say he's a talented and ambitious director who makes messy, passionate work. But then there's the Rebuild. 1.0 is totally unnecessary and basically a waste of time, 2.0 is a really fun blockbuster but very dumb when held up against the source material, 3.0 was a fascinating and bold idea executed horribly. A truly great director wouldn't pour so much energy and time into such a foolhardy project. It's clear he wasn't creatively inspired but pursued it for the sake of money.

So in short, no. I hope he has another work on the level of his 1996-98 work in him.

>>87678297
>>87680215
Love and Pop is very good but it's not his best work. That would be either the final two episodes of NGE or EoE.

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>anime

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>tfw nobody ever talks about Nadia

It's amazing, except for the horrid island arc.