Before the release of "EVA: The End", everyone's expectations for the main film are obvious, from the announcement of the plan to the finalization, and then to each postponement, basically as long as it is a little related to the final chapter of the news, basically will be in the audience group, it is difficult to pay attention to it.
But the public opinion storm after the real release is still so unexpected, basically after March 8, as long as it involves EVA discussions, whether it is Tieba bar, social groups or even related video comment areas, you can basically see fans who are breaking defenses anytime and anywhere.
But regardless of whether these are real medicines or fake drugs, why does Anno's work Void Pharmaceutical make thousands of Chinese fans collectively stomach pain? In fact, this is inseparable from his creative philosophy, this man who has always been at the forefront of the animation industry, with the work and fans linked a delicate relationship, in many cases the knife will make people want to see, his work is such a magic. In this article, I will discuss with you how the power of the leper is refined.
Shi inherits Miyazaki Hayao's true feelings of the older generation
Before Hideaki Anno entered the industry, he was an out-and-out otaku like many people who dreamed of animation. Growing up under the influence of works like Space Battleship Yamato, he has an inseparable complex for close-ups and robot animation, and he has little interest in these things. This also indirectly led to his failure to go through further education, and finally because he was indeed a big hand in painting, he was admitted to the private Osaka Art Academy.
During his college years, Anno was almost satisfied, not only joining the Daicon Film Society, the predecessor of the G Society, but also winning the appreciation of the industry tycoon Ichiro Itano with the short films he produced. With the continuous improvement of strength, the young Anno finally had the opportunity to participate in Miyazaki's "Valley of the Wind" that year, and Miyazaki had high hopes for him, and handed over to him the awakening of the climax of the whole film. In the end, because of the shocking effect, Anno became famous in the entire industry almost immediately.
Because of this relationship, Anno was once regarded as Miyazaki's mentor, although neither of them openly admitted it, but this relationship of mentorship and friendship has continued to this day. However, because of this, Anno's attitude towards animation is more inclined to the early animators, he does not like commercialization, hates others to meddle in his own works, and even deliberately makes plot arrangements contrary to the market voice in order to resist, coupled with his unusual status, his decision is difficult to be influenced by other factors. It is said that during the production of EVA: Broken, his friend Yoshiyuki Sadamoto could not stop his idea of changing the plot, and this is how the distinctive personal imprint in each of Anno's works came about.
And Tomino Gaku "blackening" eventually became a generation of knife masters
In addition to his supervisory teacher Hayao Miyazaki, Anno also has a spiritual mentor such as Yuji Tomino in his creative ideas. As the "source of all evil" in the animation industry, Tomino tends to be pessimistic in the plot, the treatment of characters is often uncertain, the better the portrayal of the characters will often die easily, many famous scenes to the younger generations to leave the impression of childhood shadow level, such as the "love warrior" Xuan Yuan, who was greatly shocked by the tragic death of the female characters in "Z Gundam".
And Anno is almost a standard "Kuro Tomino" believer, he not only likes the Gundam series, but also the "Invincible Superman Zambod 3", "Legend of the Giant God Idian" and other early Tomino works of the die-hard, and even "Legend of the Giant God Idian" because it also has the end of all human deaths and then to sublimation, once considered the absolute source of inspiration for "EOE".
In Anno's later creations, KuroFuno's ideas occasionally flashed, and only part of the plot in "Leaping To the Peak" was darker, but in "EVA", the output of this negative emotion directly became a wild horse that was out of control, and because of Anno's own unique stream of consciousness expression method, this dark direction directly became a "spiritual attack", in the TV version of the ending and the old theater version let countless audiences in the clouds, at this point, the leper has a little blue out of the blue and better than the blue meaning. However, unexpectedly, Tomino himself tended to be more positive emotional transmission after years of creation, but Anno has not come out of the style, and he himself has commented that he is "just an anime fan that Mr. Tomino hates".
After completing the audience, the fans' knife made the master completely awaken
Before the real birth of "EVA", Hideaki Anno's creation was once in a dilemma: the popular masterpiece "Leap to the Peak" was already a work of a few years ago, and the work "Sapphire Mystery" that he imitated to his mentor Miyazaki had a mediocre response, and the sequel to the "Wang Li Cosmic Army" that he really wanted to create was also tragically cut off by the G Society, which made the leper suffer an unprecedented blow at once, and directly closed himself for four years.
Did the fiery EVA save him? In fact, it was during the production of "EVA" that Anno found himself suffering from depression, which once again made him fall into negativity, and "EVA", as its psychological projection, naturally inevitably went to the tendency of self-destruction, and reached the extreme at the end of the TV version. But in the end, Anno survived, trying his best to complete the last two episodes in the case of poor state and bottoming out funds, and even he was quite satisfied with the finished product, always emphasizing that 25 and 26 were his ideal endings.
However, a dramatic scene appeared, and the ENDING of the TV version caused an uproar, and many fans began to criticize Hideaki Anno as the "culprit", and the Martial Arts-rich Heisei Azai sent him a lot of threatening letters, including many death threats that bluntly said that he killed Anno. This behavior immediately ignited Anno, and in an interview with the magazine, Anno directly said this:
"In the middle of the broadcast, I finally began to hate those animation fans, and the most annoying thing was the group of people who clung to the animation..." "This kind of fanaticism that does not benefit me at all is almost morbid, I don't understand that this happiness is completely based on the basis of what others give, but I still point fingers at the ending, as long as the story does not develop as they envision, I am angry and crazy, so I think that "EVA" ends like that for their own good, I am educating them, Don't rely too much on this self-amusement, the world will not always be free to do whatever you want. ”
Since then, "EOE" has been released, seemingly to verify Anno's statement that "educating anime fans", the theatrical version of the plot is more depressing than TV, and finally it is directly ended with human orange juice. It is difficult to say that Some of Anno's claims about educating fans are true, but since then, Anno's works have more or less had such a sermonal meaning, and it has always been a distinctive feature of the audience to "make up" it.
In the end, although fans seem to be deeply disgusted by Hideaki Anno's various practices, it is difficult not to be infected by his works after watching them, and accepting their "completion", which is actually the embodiment of the real strength of his works. So I hope that everyone will still have the last expectation, just like the summer that touched countless people in 1997, no matter what the ending, accompany everyone in the EVA.