Their best orginal works-Yamaga's Royal Space Force, Takeshi Mori's Otaku no Video, Kazuya Tsurumaki's FLCL, and Anno's Evangelion-display Gainax's odd inside-out paradox of being super-obsessed fans who, through their meditations, nevertheless sometimes come to enlightenment about the nature of themselves, their medium, their industry, their times, and their world.
Gainax's first professional work was writer and director Hiroyuki Yamaga's feature Royal Space Force, which a 1999 Time magazine article by Richard Corliss would call the movie that made anime officially an art form. Studio Gainax was incorporated in 1984, by a group of artists in their early 20s who wanted to keep together the amateur film-making team they had formed in college. This was just one month before the 26-episode Evangelion anime TV series premiered the 1995-96 series was then followed in 1997 by two Evangelion movies: Death And Rebirth, and The End of Evangelion.Īs the comments of Evangelion writer and director Hideaki Anno suggest, it is difficult to separate Eva from the extraordinary story of its creators. The comments on pages 167-171 all appeared in the original Japanese edition of this volume, first published on September 1, 1995. Source: Originally published in the Viz second edition of Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. Written Statements Editor's Note, Manga Volume 1
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