The Hideaki Anno FAQ

Hideaki Anno is an intensely private, deeply reflective artist, and out of respect for his enormous accomplishments -- both for what he's achieved, and for what he'll create in the future -- this guide will focus more on the general context of Japanese anime than individual personalities. Japanese anime (borrowed from the French term for comic strip, pronounced "ah-nee-may") is one of the great multinational art-forms of our time, spawned during the 1960s by an unruly admixture of US animation, European auteur film, and Japan's own incomparable traditions of wood carving, scroll painting and other graphic arts. Anime are actually the televised form of "manga" or hand-drawn comic strips (a genre which, incidentally, continues to flourish in contemporary Japan). Here are some useful links to the field:

Anno-kun Posters, news, links of anime's greatest artist
Gainax Studios Anno's interstellar base
Anno Speaks Anno's most revealing interview. Guess who his favorite Evangelion character is? (Hint: "Alle Menschen werden Brueder...").
Animation Turnpike Best one-stop shop for anime links around
Studio Ghibli Official homepage of Ghibli
Nausicaa Fansite for Hayao Miyazaki, Japan's greatest anime filmmaker

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