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Ouch, now that really stings to wake up to. Eva aside, Nadia, Gunbuster, FLCL all stand out among the great anime of the '90s-'00s. Even lesser known series, like KareKano, which Anno had a hand in, really have a vivaciousness to them to them that just isn't that common. RIP Gainax.

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It stings a little, but most of the Good People have gotten around to other studios anyways. As I understand it gainax was really just an IP holding company for the most part in recent time

>Even lesser known series, like KareKano

Ahh the memories...I'll never forget their style of running out of funds mid series and then switching to the anime version of powerpoint style transitions to tell the remainder of the story! :D

And who can forget Mahoromantic with the quintessential other Anime quirk: The budget runs outs so the important people just die and the credits roll with sad music....the end. :D

I discovered in early high school after investing considerable time into a few series only to be burned by bad endings, that I should try something other than Anime. Its enjoyable but man I can't trust these guys. They suck you in and then leave you hanging too often.

At least Evangelion was good I guess. Guess thats what happens when you have more continual income coming in for a franchise?

Whats old is new again, Amazon and to a lesser extend Netflix are now mass producing content with this trap but at least we can make our voices heard. Back then in the late 90s early 00s we could not as easily complain to the company.

Honestly I'm super excited for this. An important detail of note is that Studio Khara will be responsible for selling off and distributing IP to interested parties. Realistically most of these properties will go to Khara themself, Trigger, and studios like SHAFT that worked closely with gainax in the early days.

So if anything this is how many of those beloved projects will get out from under Gainax's death grip and get something new other than a pachinko machine.

Well, their biggest success is pretty much done to death now. NGE has had a series, multiple OVAs, multiple movies, multiple revamp movies... there's really not much else to get out of it unless you want to tell the story of how they got into that mess to begin with, which might be the most interesting part of all of this to its core fanbase given their age. Maybe tell the story of the project up until Shinji's mom dies or something.

There's all kinds of fun things that could be done with the franchise. An isekai where an Otaku gets reborn as Shinji and tries to do it right would be great.

I mean the plan with Eva according to Anno is to do like what Gundam does.

i.e. you have you main timeline (Universal Century) with focuses on different groups on opposing sides of the conflict during different periods.

But then you have your many other offshoot series (00, IBO, GWitch, SEED, Turn A, etc) that are free of the main established canon while keeping the same core elements to the series.

They announced that, but all major IPs they had were already transferred to Khara and Trigger a couple years ago (that's why the TTGL movies reappeared in cinema a couple years ago). It's likely just some of the older/less popular stuff that's not easy to assign owners to that will need to be redistributed.

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