Knowra Hideaki Anno Hideaki Anno Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter best known for creating Neon Genesis Evangelion. His work spans television anime, feature films, and live-action cinema.
Neon Genesis Evangelion : A 1995–1996 anime series created by Hideaki Anno about adolescent pilots defending humanity from mysterious beings called Angels. The series that established Anno’s international reputation and became his most influential work.
Hayao Miyazaki : A Japanese animator and filmmaker who co-founded Studio Ghibli and directed films including My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. Miyazaki directed Anno’s first professional animation work on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Anime : Animation produced in Japan, encompassing diverse visual styles, genres, and audiences. Most of Anno’s best-known directing work belongs to this medium.
Otaku : A Japanese term for people with intense interests, especially in anime, manga, games, or other hobbies. Evangelion became a major work in debates about anime fandom and otaku identity.
Osaka University of Arts : A private art university in Osaka, Japan, with programs in film, animation, and other arts. Anno studied there before entering professional animation.
The End of Evangelion : A 1997 animated film that presents an alternate ending to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Anno directed this film as a forceful reworking of the series’ conclusion.
Yoshiyuki Tomino : A Japanese anime director and screenwriter who created the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. Tomino’s mecha anime helped shape the genre Anno later reworked in Evangelion.
Mecha anime : A genre of anime centered on piloted or autonomous giant robots and their conflicts. Anno uses mecha conventions as the framework for Evangelion’s character drama.
Media mix : A Japanese business strategy that develops a property across formats such as animation, games, toys, and publishing. Evangelion’s expansion across products and media made it a prominent media-mix franchise.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind : A 1984 animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, set in a post-apocalyptic world threatened by ecological collapse. Anno worked as an animator on the film, gaining an early professional opportunity.
Show all 27