Good riddance to bad company.

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What are your farewell words to the Gainax studio/name?

>>23664024
"where uru in blue?"

>>23664020
>>23664024
omedetou

>>23664024
Uru In Blue when?

>>23664020
They were nothing short of scummy in their last years

Rest in Piss

>>23664020
Despite their final years of existence, Gainax was an influential studio, today it’s succeeded by Khara and Trigger which follow up on their legacy for further inspiration for years to come. Farewell Gainax

>>23664020
TOMINO WON HOLYYYY

Has any other studio had as much of a slow painful death as Gainax?

>>23664020
What killed them? I thought Evangelion made bank?

>>23664020
Khara next.

>>23664138
Turns out, having one of the most profitable IPs in the world means nothing if you can’t learn how to manage money.

>>23664020
>The problem was that the transfer of rights and materials had been carried out without due process under the former management.
What happened? Is it related to Evangelion?

>>23664020
RIP. In their honor I will finally watch Abenobashi which has been in my backlog for 20 years because I always forget that it's in my backlog

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>>23664142
Why so many newfags?

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My Uru In Blue..

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>The photo shows a celebratory envelope (originally animation cel paper with tap holes) that Miyasan (Hayao Miyazaki) brought to the studio (a single-family house) in Takadanobaba at the time of Gainax's founding. I kept it for myself before it was thrown away. At some point, one of our company's staff had it framed.

>More than 40 years have passed since that time. It has truly become a regrettable outcome. (Comment from our company president)

>>23664020
They had it coming.

>>23664226
>More than 40 years have passed since that time.

Couldn't they all just...work together again somewhere else

>>23664020
Now they can make the Otaku no video sequel and call it Otaku no streaming.

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>>23664020

>>23664134
Manglobe was basically running on fumes for like 15 years but still putting out zero budget shows
At least we got Samurai Flamenco moments before their demise

>>23664134
Gonzo

>>23664134
Sunrise

>>23664225
Honestly what’s stopping Khara from making it themselves using the original concept, especially since there wasn’t gonna be any returning characters from Royal Space Force. Just change the name of the locales and setting, Yamaga‘s shackled with whatever the hell Gaina’s become.

>>23664357
Wings of Mayonaise was an industry darling but a massive commercial bomb, and the director's pet project, so I don't think anyone else would be interested in picking up the sequel or would be able to match the feeling of the original

>>23664138
Anno took the rights of Evangelion from them to make up for the royalties that management wasn't paying because they spent it all on hookers and blow

>>23664020
Best news in ages.
>>23664310
I miss those guys.

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>>23664020
These guys changed anime forever. Honneamise, Gunbuster, Eva, FLCL, Diebuster, TTGL and even mid stuff like Abenobashi did something no one else was doing at the time.
The anime that we "legitimized" as good in the west (like Akira, GitS, Satoshi Kon's movies and Ghibli movies), despite their undoubted quality are westernized and compatible with western culture.
Gainax has never been afraid to incorporate elements of otaku culture in their work and somehow give them creative and artistic dignity. You take Gunbuster and in six episodes it has everything: squemish girls doing sports, mecha, space fights, luminal travel eldritch horror, 80s songs, inazuma kick.
Whether anime fans like it or not, anime tropes, fanservice, big robots punching aliens, cringe-screaming, exaggerated sentimentality and the delirium of onipotence of the grown chuuninbyou are a part of this medium. Gainax at least had the courage to make something beautiful with it - which was anime at its core: not wannabe cinema, not wannabe high-literature - anime.

F.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju2P4V4Vc_8 [Embed]

>>23664258
Some of the creators like Khara's and Trigger just slowly drifted in their own direction, but the problem here is that the troubles of the studio ended up souring the relationship of quite a few founders (especially when they attempted to secret separate Gainax subsidiaries so they'd retain rights over various series while Gainax proper was left to rot).

>>23664259
They should make a movie about you called "Otaku no Bitches".

>>23664412
Sure thing cringelord

>>23664430
Go back crossboarder.

>>23664200
>newfags
None of the personnel who made Gainax great are there anymore, they all left to make new studios specifically because Gainax was a shitshow.

>>23664020
A studio is just a mailbox and an office. The people that made all that shit moved on and it's clear not all their memories of gainax are good.
Still, gainax didn't die. It went through mitosis into khara and trigger while leaving behind all the detritus.

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>>23664413
>Important to note from this statement is that Hiroyuki Yamaga told Gainax employees to pretend he was in the hospital in one of several attempts to avoid repaying the money Anno loaned to them

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>>23664418
I would if they invite you to co-star as my cocksleeve

>>23664349
Soon

>>23664440
>while leaving behind all the detritus
The people who made Grendizer U sadly still exist.

>>23664459
I am beginning to understand why Anno is so pissed about the entire situation.

>>23664459
I once found Yamaga's personal facebook, it was pretty bizarre how nonchalant and "public" everything was.

>>23664138
at the end of the day, they are just a bunch of otakus. financial management is not their strong suit.

>>23664459
unironically, a good plot for an anime.

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>>23664500
Gonna be honest, I thought you were joking and turns out you're not

>>23664020
Damn.
A bit late, but I know what I'll be watching tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTqQnk2K0QQ

>>23664459
The entire falling out between Anno and Yamaga is almost the saddest thing about this.
From living together in college to founding a company together, years of working, only for it to end so ugly

>>23664373
>they spent it all on hookers and blow
[citation needed]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfczFtTvzbg

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>>23664904
Anno was the chosen one. Yamaga was there just for the ride

>>23664349
>>23664471
Not happening. Cr yharder.

>>23664020
;_;7
Gainax was a lot of what got me hardcore. Otaku No Video in particular was a big impact on how to weeb. The mp3s of the soundtrack on tenshi was an early contribution of mine to the hivemind, got it off ebay.
I ended up with a first-pressing LD of 1985, never tried to cash in the card for the single lol.

I have a few cels from Misty Mae's transformation, got them from AnimEigo.

one time I directly bought shit from Gainax, they opened up business across the pacific, then it turned out you just emailed them your order, your credit card number, and they were all "trust me, bro"
sure enough I got my R2 Eva movie so good on them
I remember a REALLY funny hustle they pulled around then was Royal Space Force R2 dvd was Y8800. The R0 was about thirty bucks more.

iirc before Studio Ironcat did the massive faceplant on Megatokyo they took a less-publicized bath in the Eva Collectors Discs. Dim Memories of early AFO pretty sure the first one, the story went Ironcat inked the deal with Gainax to translate and distro in the USA, then they got a set of the discs. Just off-the-shelf cds. Gainax eventually grasped the importance of source code to this endeavor but it turns out to be some obscure Japan-only variant of C and nobody can find the guy who made it. By this point everybody has downloaded all of the good stuff from otakuworld.

other lolgainax story I have is FLCL
you know how the R2 have subs on vol 2-6? according to some rando at a con who claimed he subbed it, he had to explain to them that mailing him the finished discs after it was published wouldn't work

>>23665138
Yamaga wasn't half bad, just turned out to be real scummy.

>>23665366
Yeah but it must be hard to live under Anno's shadow. Especially considering he met him as that weird kid from college.

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Is Yamaga still working on Gaina?

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>>23664020
i do see the princess maker in the picture, but where is Götzendiener?

>>23665765
Jesus, that is obscure. I thought I was the only one who even played a bit of it when emulating PC-98 games and I dont even remember where I got it from now.

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Alisia Dragoon is not there either, but I guess its more Game Arts than Gainax as I believe they only provided the story and art designs

>>23665485
Gaina got bought by some shady AI company earlier this year

>>23664226
btw in case you´ve just looking at the thread here and not the source, thats Anno basically saying only he cared enough to take it with himself before "it was thrown away" and somebody at khara framed it, so Its not even an emotional farewell post from some supposed gainax staff, quite enough to see how sad was the state of that company

>>23664357
Whats stopping them is very simple, the noly reason that movie was going to happen back in the day was Yamaga because he basically wanted to remake streets of fire with planes and nobody was interested in the idea, as always, he roped Anno in doing it before he got busy with outside business like Nadia and Eva(neither did originate from the company), now Anno just publicly paints Yamaga like a fraudster or a conman, Its difficult to imagine they would touch that thing, besides at some point in the past gaina put a notice that they were producing the thing, and also Top 3, Its not going to happen the fact the name of the thing has been uttered could mean he thinks he has some creator rights to it or something, in any case nobody wants anything to do with Yamaga or whatever pitch he has most likely.

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>>23665801
Sadamoto joined Gaina and worked on Grendizer U. I guess he has no other choice but to return to Khara

>>23666178
>return

>>23666270
He did work on Rebuilds 1 and 2, though I'm not entirely sure how their relationship is.
I remember him tweeting for people to stop asking him about Evangelion, as he's no longer a part of the franchise.

>>23666347
>>23666270
Sadamoto is credited on 3.0 and 3.0+1.0 as the original character designer but he didn't work on those movies. He left Anno for Yamaga. He bet for the losing horse

>>23666347
>>23666483
He doesn't work at Khara, that's probably freelance work. Sadamoto has enough pull to do his own thing (or so he thinks).

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I know the studio has been dying a slow death for a long ass time now, but it still feels like and end of an Era.

>>23664020
Rest in peace.

>>23664020
Which companies have Gainax's IPs currently? I remember Gaina, Khara, Trigger, and Production IG all having their fingers in the pie.

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All of the original Daicon IV program books have now been documented and had a lot of involvement from Daicon Film etc. You can download them all here:

https://mega.nz/folder/a01QkBZI#NpvhnwFsvDg1blITVfY9nQ

Consider reading the .txt in the MEGA for additional information, but not a requirement.

IA Mirror (in case the MEGA can't be connected to for any reason):

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Nihon+SF+Taikai%22

IA supports direct .ZIP downloads (click the PNG option, hit the down arrow.) as well as torrents to just about any client. Feel free to upload/torrent elsewhere, I'm not picky.

>>23664020

Good. I hope Studio Khara is next. Anno deserves to be wiped completely from the industry.

>>23670280
But Khara is the one that benefited from Gainax shutting down the most.

>>23670280
as if you could do anything better.

>>23670295
Absolutely could but don't got the funding

>>23670309
we wuz animators n sheit ass

>>23670394
ayo he wuz a good boye, just didn't have da fundings n sheeeit, those japaniggas raycis cuz dey don't gib us da money mkay?

https://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2002-takeda-notenkimemoirs
Apparently this explains what happened to Gainax's money.

>>23664020
>produced nothing but plagiarsed shows full of cheap fanservice
not sad
hope the fanbase vanish too

>>23673308
Relax timmy.

>>23670205
Danke.

>>23670205
Very cool, thank you!

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RIP.
I know most if not all of the talent had already left and I have no idea what Gainax was really doing on the final years, but I will always love the old classic Gainax and will forever cherish their 80s and 90s work.
I hope Aoki Uru gets made someday...

bump

>>23664200
gainax makes trite that only newfags like yourself watch

>>23664020
F

>>23664142
hopefully

>>23684234
you'll die sooner than them

I started watching His and Her Circumstances (among other anime) recently to remember Gainax, any of you anons picked up their old titles recently?

>>23695564
Kare Kano is pretty good, excellent soundtrack and comfy art direction that reminds of Evangelion a lot.

>>23695564
Not recently.

>>23695564
I have that mahjong ova by dezaki's brother on my list.

>>23700944
>mahjong ova
nani

>>23670205
Thanks anon

>>23708058
You're welcome

>>23664020
So who owns all the various series' rights now? I know EVA is owned by Khara but what about Gunbuster, Nadia etc?

>>23708153
iirc the known ones so far are Khara having Eva, Trigger having Gurren Laggan, Panty & Stocking and Dead Leaves, and Production IG having FLCL

I think the other Gainax original IPs are in limbo with Khara and the other parties trying to claw them back, since zombie Gainax pulled that shit with them transferring various IPs to shell companies or selling them off to others to keep them out of Anno's hands

Eg that's what happened with Gunbuster/Diebuster and Blue Uru, the sub company they were moved to is now owned by some AI slop company

I believe Nadia was a messy situation where Gainax never actually held rights to it, it was basically a work-for-hire (that they took a huge loss on)

>>23708201
Nadia has always been NHK's, Kare Kano and Mahoromatic are probably in a similar situation where Gainax never held any rights to them.

>>23708201
I think Anno/Khara has Gunbuster now, considering they serialized a few years ago.
https://www.khara.co.jp/2024/01/16/240116/
They also announced the streaming release of FLCL on their website, so Tsurumaki may have some level of ownership there.

>>23708201
>with Khara and the other parties trying to claw them back
That work's done that's why Anno's people finally shut down what was left of Gainax.
The only thing that didn't end up where they wanted it to go was FLCL getting sold to Production IG behind Anno's back but they might've worked something out with Production IG separately.

How would a modern Otaku no Video be?

>>23710555
Modern as in "sequel" or just the same idea but made with modern audiences in mind? Either way they'd probably sell NFTs instead.

>>23710555
I'd have probably said Genshiken but hell that's old now too

>>23710555
it would probably end up the company falls apart because of crooked spending and the guys try to rebuil- hey wait a minute

>>23710630
They'd make an indiegogo to save it but one of the owners runs away with the money. In the credits they tell you about the various crimes the rest of the staff committed (soliciting a minor, hit & run, antisemitism, public exposure)

>>23664020
Doubt it; they still have to release the fifth episode uncensored.

>>23708201
Gainax never had Gunbuster or even honneamise, both of those are most likely a Bandai property, thats why the company Yamaga is at can BS that they are making another GB sequel, they must have some shit license or paper that says they can make something derived from it, Gainax didnt have pretty much any IP before evangelion, thats why it was such a big deal for them and why there was so much battle over it eventually

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>>23708507
On the matter of FLCL, Anno now is part of the board of directors of I.G, sounds crazy but in a roundabout way it means he can block all of that FLCL shit if Tsurumaki is not happy with it.

>>23710555
Checked.
Also it's true that Otaku no Video saved Gainax originally from bankrupcy?
I remember reasing they were about to close and made OnV as a special farewell OVA, but turned out to be so successful they were able to go on and then finally got Evangelion done once Sega sponsored the project

Evangelion ruined mecha and fuck Anno, he’s a hack. Otherwise, a cautionary tale and an example of why and how things used to be better.

>>23717762
>yeah I started watching mecha last summer, how did you know?

>>23664357
Right but the world has kind of changed. You don't need to be a theatrical juggernaut anymore. I'm not suggesting outright crowdsourcing but there are a lot of ways to distribute things now.

>>23716568
I've never heard that and Takeda doesn't mention anything along those lines in his book.
What really saved Gainax from bankruptcy was tax evasion.

>>23664020
RIP Bozo

>>23665485
>Is Yamaga still working
He hasn't "worked" for over 20 years.

>>23664509
Not really.

>>23667280
How the hell did Sadamoto never get an actual serialization? He must have some serious imposter syndrome or something to waste his talent doing nothing.

>>23726359
How is working in Anime for 40+ years nothing? Dude did a shit ton of art.
Anyone can tell you that working on manga is a grueling task and the Eva manga ran for 9 years. That's a pretty hefty serialization.
I'm pretty sure being mostly retired at 60 means he did ok. Not everyone wants to work under time constraints till they die.

>>23726359
He's the artist of multiple all-timer class works, not sure I'd call that wasted talent
A serialized manga in comparison is grunt work compared to his career

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>>23710555
The Gainax Tomato saga would be kino

>>23665769
I still don't get why they needed to be involved. There's no panel (or animated obviously) cutscenes like in Phantasy Star or Valis or El Viento. No OVA or anything. Was more planned and it never happened? Seems like quite a waste of opportunity.

>>23716568
Faiz numbers to boot.

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>>23728053
https://shmuplations.com/alisiadragoon/
You'd think Gainax would be doing concept art, but no, Gainax guys were actually doing game design work, they had out of the box ideas such as making the second to last level's ship be tilted diagonally and be upside down.

>>23717769
He’s not wrong.

>>23731187
Not really

>>23664024
Tatakae