25 Facts About Hideaki Anno

Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and actor.

Hideaki Anno's most celebrated creation, the Evangelion franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industry and Japanese popular culture, with many deeming Anno as one of the medium's first auteurs.

Several of Hideaki Anno's anime have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award, including Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in 1990, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997.

The son of Fumiko and Takuya Hideaki Anno, Hideaki Anno was born in Ube, Yamaguchi; he attended Wako Kindergarten, Unoshima Municipal Elementary School, Fujiyama Municipal Junior High School, and Yamaguchi Prefectural Ube High School where he was noted for his interest in artwork and making short films for Japanese Cultural Festivals.

Hideaki Anno began his career while attending Osaka University of Arts as an animator for the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.

Hideaki Anno did not gain recognition until the release of his work on Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

Hideaki Anno went on to become one of the co-founders of Gainax in December 1984.

Hideaki Anno worked as an animation director for their first feature-length film, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise, and ultimately became Gainax's premiere anime director, leading the majority of the studio's projects such as Gunbuster and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.

Hideaki Anno felt that people should be exposed to the realities of life at as young an age as possible, and by the end of the series all attempts at traditional narrative logic were abandoned, as the final two episodes take place within the main character's mind.

Timing constraints at Gainax forced Hideaki Anno to replace the planned ending of Evangelion with two episodes set in the main characters' minds.

Hideaki Anno won Best New Director Award at 1998 Yokohama Film Festival for the film.

Later in 2004, Hideaki Anno supervised but did not direct the three-part OVA, Re: Cutie Honey, which was respectively directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, Takamichi Ito, and Masayuki.

On February 17,2007, Hideaki Anno published an official statement on the Japanese Yahoo Portal for the films regarding his personal involvement and goals in their production.

In 2011 Hideaki Anno co-produced the Koinobori Pictures movie Kantoku Shikkaku, directed by Katsuyuki Hirano featuring Yumika Hayashi.

In 2012, Hideaki Anno was the curator of an exhibit entitled Tokusatsu- Special Effects Museum-Craftsmanship of Showa and Heisei Eras Seen Through Miniatures, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, featuring actual props and suits from many of Japan's tokusatsu films and TV shows.

Hideaki Anno produced a short live-action film for the exhibit, entitled A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo, featuring the Giant Warrior-God from Studio Ghibli's animated film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

Hideaki Anno has gone on to work with Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli on several short films which have been shown at the Ghibli Museum.

Hideaki Anno voiced the main character Jiro Horikoshi in Miyazaki's 2013 feature film The Wind Rises.

Hideaki Anno designed the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 sci-fi anime television series opening sequence.

Hideaki Anno wrote and directed Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, launched in March 2021, after being rescheduled twice due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Hideaki Anno stated that Shinji's story was completed, but mentioned that he had more ideas set in Evangelion's world.

Hideaki Anno has appeared in manga twice, both created by personal acquaintances.

Aoi Hono was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2014, where Hideaki Anno was played by actor Ken Yasuda.

On March 26,2002, Hideaki Anno married his wife, manga artist Moyoco Hideaki Anno.

Hideaki Anno is an agnostic and has stated that he has found Japanese spiritualism to be closest to his personal beliefs.