Gainax

That specific scene made me think a lot about furikuri.

It all felt very Gainax, very triggered to me.

Yeah.

It was kind of fun.

I think, see, here's the thing.

Here's the difference between Gainax shows.

Evangelion, I didn't know what was going on.

And it wasn't funny, didn't have lots of cats everywhere, didn't

If this is the show to just randomly throw shit in.

So, I mean, this one has a random cat.

That's a real sound effects of one of the cats owned by someone who works at Gainax.

So, you know.

We got Hugh Hefner.

We got the Gainax girl, but they're not actually rabbits.

They're wearing corsets and rabbit ears.

That's a little different.

It includes the ships and, you know, the smaller vessels and presumably Hathaway's little mech that he buys to sneak onto the ship and all that stuff.

And all of that work was commissioned to studio Gainax, which at this point in its history would have just finished the massively ambitious and expensive production of Royal Space Force and was beginning its work on Gunbuster.

While Gainax itself is the entity in the credits, it just credits this to Gainax, we know it was specifically Anno Hideaki and Masuo Shoichi who handled the work.

Anno took point on Neo Zeon designs and Masuo on Federation designs, and that is how, that was Anno's role in this movie.

That is, I think, the only time directly he worked on Gundam until G-Quox many years later.

But it's cool that we have Anno here.

The final credits for design are thus pretty convoluted, as they have been throughout all of this.

Izabuchi gets the non-standard mobile suit design credit, written in Katakana, while the more typical mechanical design credit in Japanese goes to Gainax as an entity, alongside Sayama Yoshinori, who did all that finishing work.

Um, and there was a part where Anno was trying to find a studio.

He didn't want to do it with Gainax.

He feared that the results, uh, would be too similar, and also that the production difficulties would be too similar.

And, uh, also said that he wanted to allow for a fairer distribution of profits.

I think they talked to Production I.G., which did, um, Stand Alone Complex and also worked on End of Evangelion.

Um, and I know there's, like, a couple others, but nobody really wanted to take on the project.

And so he's like, "I guess I'll just do it myself." Um, despite the fact that he was afraid that working at Gainax, the same studio, would, would result in the same product, he did just bring in a bunch of the same main staff from the show to work on this.

So, um-

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Yes, from 2000, and Gainax with a couple other people, Production I.G. and Star Child Records.

Yes, we are watching Fooly Cooly.

It's great.

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That was a huge thing I noticed.

That's the Gainax special apparently is sphincter lips.

Holy moly.

2007, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

Created by Gainax, the exact same studio that made Evangelion 12 years prior.

They essentially answered their own ghost.

They really did.