Hideaki Anno has had a full project plan throughout the previous thirty years, and at long last, he has nothing planned.
Hideaki Anno, the creator of one of the most notorious and influential anime ever, Neon Genesis Evangelion, at last, has a hole in his timetable – without precedent for thirty years! He has been dealing with projects steadily since Evangelion’s unprecedented outcome in the mid-90s. After all, everybody wants to work with somebody who can make that sort of progress, and accomplishment fair and square of Anno is certainly exceptional.
The announcement came from Anno himself during a press conference for his newest tokusatsu film, Shin Kamen Rider. In the press event, Anno stated that without precedent for thirty years, he has ended up without any impending projects booked. Though he said he might want to deal with a continuation for Shin Kamen Rider whenever asked, he otherwise has no foreseeable plans.
Evangelion initially ran from 1995 to 1996 with a 26 episode anime that took the world by storm, and it was Anno’s first enormous work. It is still one of the most influential and notable anime in Japan even today, with motion pictures, stage shows, and collaborations frequently happening. Indeed, even the characters themselves are popular, and the fundamental ones are recognized by even non-otaku in Japan purely on account of their prevalence in the culture.
Evangelion was just the start for Hideaki Anno, too. The other works he has directed from that point forward are Kare Kano (1998), Love and Pop (1998), Shiki-Jitsu (2000), Cutie Honey (2004), Re: Cutie Honey (2004), Rebuild of Evangelion (2007-2021), and Shin Godzilla (2016). He likewise curated exhibitions, created other movies, and dealt with animation and storyboards for a lot of anime – not to mention writing a few true-to-life films in huge franchises like Godzilla and Kamen Rider.
Anno actually got his start in the industry doing animation for Hayao Miyazaki’s film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind back in 1985, and his career has been fundamentally relentless from that point onward. He dealt with a couple of projects before his raving success Evangelion was conceived, but everything took off the most after it aired. The work he has done on Neon Genesis Evangelion alone is more than certain individuals’ entire careers and that is just a fraction of what Anno has done as such far.
The 62-year-old admitted that he was ready to have a break and a vacation, and he has more than procured it. While we will continuously be searching for more works from the creative psyche of Hideaki Anno, we likewise wish him a really restful break. Besides, a truly necessary rest might mean he returns refreshed, and with every single new thought. No other person quite has a similar touch with wild inferences to religion and commentaries against the Japanese government as Anno does.