#studio Gainax

[omercifulheaves]

Studio Gainax

[silvadour]

[balrog-slayer66]

Evangelion art by Yoshiyuki Takani

[rayz-gamma]

(GURREN LAGANN) 2007

One of my favorite top 10 mecha anime series despite it's short run compared to other series like Gundam and it's decades long pedigree. This series caught me by surprise and never disappointed when it released in america.

[wackypomko]

paswg fanart

[megan3kk0]

[moonlightbeamu]

I still have a crush on her~!

[evamonkey]

On this day in 1996, the unconventional final episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion first aired on TV Tokyo. How do you think you would feel about Evangelion if this was the only ending we would ever get?

[grayrazor]

You can almost make an internally consistent Studio Gainax Mecha Anime Unified Timeline, but the one hitch is that Gunbuster and Evangelion both start in 2015 and portray a very different status for Earth and Humanity.

Maybe Nadia is the branching off point for both. In one timeline humanity investigates the Atlantean technology in the Nautilus and by 2015 has homing lasers, photon torpedoes, and degeneracy reactors. In the other timeline humanity finds the Atlantean base in Antarctica, investigates the body of Adam, and by 2015 has armored cyber kaiju.

Maybe have the closed timeline loop of Evangelion Rebuild erase the Second and Third Impacts from history, returning things to normal by 2015...just in time for the Space Kaiju to invade.

In any case, there's a pretty straight throughline from Diebuster to Gurren Lagann. When Lal'c and Nono draw on "hard work and guts" they're unwittingly tapping into the energy source that would later be scientifically codified and technologically harnessed as Spiral Power.

[coredrill]

i am Very behind on my gainax knowledge why is it a good thing it’s going bankrupt. i’m curious what’s goin on with the studio

oh god, there is so much lmao. ironically not much has gone on anime-wise since 2010 (nothing of note has been produced there since panty and stocking with garterbelt), but they sure have been VERY busy doing some legally/ethically/financially-dubious business since then (and since their inception fbdnfnjdjs)

tbh the best summary that exists of all of gainax’s shitty ways is actually a post that hideaki anno made a few years back. the context for this post is that the then-president of gainax was arrested in late 2019 for assault (content warning if you decide to look into that further, it’s gross) and a bunch of the outlets that reported on it said something to the effect of “president of the evangelion studio arrested!” which of course made people think it was ANNO who got arrested, and he felt like he needed to clear his own name/studio khara’s name. honestly reading through everything he says is so damning and he put up with so much shit that i’m surprised he held it in as long as he did, fjfjjdjdn.

khara has also made another post about it, i haven’t had the chance to read through it myself yet but it seems like they will be redistributing the rights to all of gainax’s properties that haven’t yet escaped the studio’s clutches to their creators. so it’s a win in the sense that this terribly-run, money-hungry studio has finally got its comeuppance and hopefully the people who made great anime there get to finally own their own work!!!! also this happened so close to shinji’s birthday (6/6) that i am choosing to believe the universe cosmically aligned for the little dude for once in his life. happy birthday shinji :]

[wiredjunkie]

I drew this instead of drawing my ocs for art fight

[omercifulheaves]

Gunbuster (1988)

[silvadour]

[rayz-gamma]

(GURREN LAGANN MOVIES) = "Childhood's end" (2008) & "The lights in the sky are stars" (2009)

[sharma-the-terrible]

RIP STUDIO GAINAX THANKS FOR MAKING NGE, YOU CHANGED MY LIFE