Hideaki Anno says Shonen Jump fans, like One Piece lovers, stick to familiar stories, hindering anime innovation. One Piece blends deep themes with new adaptations, showing fans embrace fresh takes.

Hideaki Anno is known for making complicated characters, and we, as fans, don’t necessarily get to like them. For example, Shinji Ikari isn’t a typical confident protagonist. He’s a self-loathing ...

However, after a certain point in the anime, Rei’s participation was the bare minimum, if any at all. Hideaki Anno himself admitted that he had forgotten all about the character. While progressing ...

But hey, 43 episodes is a lot. If you need the TL;DR version, there’s a trilogy or the prequel film GQuuuuuuX: Beginning, that sums it up fairly well.Just one thing: those films remove characters like ...

Through the Evangelion series, Hideaki Anno made his mark in the anime space, specifically, the cyberpunk and the mecha genre.His work reshaped the course and demographic of the genre in many aspects, ...