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After the End: The Never-Made Evangelion Film
March 8th, 2021 was the premiere of the fourth installment in the Evangelion New Theatrical Edition film quadrilogy, titled 3.0 + 1.0: Thrice Upon a Time. With the film’s release, it brought to a close...
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What Could Have Been: Gainax’s Brief Stint as Video Game Consultants
Even within less enthusiastic corners of the fandom, inhabited by those who don’t routinely discuss favorite key animators or share clips of killer sakuga sequences, the origins of Gainax are well...
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Gainax’s Never-Completed Uru in Blue and an Interview with Hiroyuki Yamaga
Tracing the production history of Uru in Blue, the never-completed sequel to Royal Space Force that’s been in and out of production for three decades, is a monumental task. It’s gone through numerous...
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Daicon III’s 40th Anniversary
Daicon III’s Star Wars-inspired opening crawl in the convention booklet. Forty years ago today at the Morinomiya Piloti Hall in Osaka, the 20th Japan SF Convention got underway. The two-day event drew...
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AnimeCon ’91: A Japanese Convention Report
AnimeCon ’91 wasn’t the first anime convention held in the United States, but it helped define the large-scale, corporate-sponsored events that have become the norm for the last 30 years. Co-sponsored...
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More Than A Coincidence: Notes on Xardion and Gunbuster
When I pitched my Xardion article, I was interested more in the substance of the game than its production. That soon changed. As I began untangling the myriad of threads that led to its creation, I was...
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Bandai, The Post-Gundam Wave, and the Year 1985
“…the children have moved on, leaving creators lagging behind a bit.” – Makoto Yamashina, Bandai President It’s difficult to pinpoint the precise moment that the gunpla boom ended, but by 1985 the real...
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Another Shelved Gainax Project: Olympia
Anime fans who have some idea of the history of Gainax, more often than not, will go from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water straight to Neon Genesis Evangelion if you ask them to describe the studio’s...
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Our Patreon-Funded Gainazine
Thanks to the support of our readers on Patreon, long ago we reached our final Patreon goal: a revised version of our Secret History of Gainax article reformatted as a mini-fanzine. However, that was...
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A Brief History of Hideaki Anno’s Work on Mobile Suit Gundam
The career of Hideaki Anno has earned him accolades in many ways; as an animator, illustrator, storyboard artist, and most notably, as the creator and director of Evangelion. Yet there’s one element of...
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