R.I.P. Satoshi Kon

Now, this isn’t relevant to Evangelion but I just want to announce my sincere feelings for the death of one of the brilliant anime film directors – Satoshi Kon.

For those of you who doesn’t know him, he’s the director of films such as ‘Perfect Blue,’ ‘Tokyo Godfathers,’ and the movie that influenced ‘Inception’ — ‘Paprika.’ Satoshi Kon has won awards from Fant-Asia Film Festival, Mainichi Film Concours, Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival, and many more. He’s one of my favorite directors mainly because I’m bias to psychological / philosophical genres, which Hideaki Anno is also great at.

One of the earlier reports of his death came from Takeda Yasuhiro, a founding member of GAINAX, the animation studio most famous for producing Neon Genesis Evangelion. Other source was from Masao Maruyama, president of Madhouse Studios. According to Anime-Gamers’ source, Kon’s cause of death was cancer.

Here’s one of my top anime films, directed by Satoshi Kon, Perfect Blue:

Source: Cinematical

August 25 2010 | News | No Comments »

Evangelion: 0.X You Can [Not] Complain

August 22 2010 | Images | No Comments »

2nd Annual ANIMAF Awards

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Ogata Megumi: Live in Toronto – Song List

I envy those who will be able to watch this.. such great selection of songs:

1. Hohoemi No Bakudan [Yu?Yu?Hakusho OP]
2. Homework ga Owaranai [Yu?Yu?Hakusho ED]
3. Moonlight Densetsu [Sailor Moon OP]
4. Yuzurenai Negai [Magic Knight Rayearth OP]
5. Platinum [Cardcaptor Sakura OP]
6. Agape [UFO Princess Valkyrie IMAGE]
7. Fly Me To The Moon [Neon Genesis Evangelion ED]
8. Komm, Susser Tod (Come, Sweet Death) [Evangelion AIRIMAGE]
9. THANATOS – If I can’t be yours – [Evangelion AIRED]
10. Beautiful World [Rebuild of Evangelion ED]
11. ENDLESS LOVE [Ogata Megumi Original]
12. can’t go back my mission [Ogata Megumi Original]
13. Hare Hare Yukai [The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ED]
14. Don’t Say Lazy [K-ON ED]
15. My Soul, Your Beats! [Angel Beats! OP]
16. Crow Song [Angel Beats! IMAGE]
17. chAngE [BLEACH OP]
18. Get Wild [City Hunter ED]
19. Unbalance na KISS wo shite [Yu?Yu?Hakusho ED]
+ SPECIAL ENCORE

Concert tickets are $30 each (plus applicable taxes and service charges) and are on sale now at http://www.ticketweb.ca. Tickets can also be purchased the day of the show at the YOSHITAKA AMANO GOODS SHOPinside of the convention and at the John Bassett Theatre the day of the convention.

Start Time: 7:30pm. Priority seating will be let in at 7:00pm sharp.
Concert Duration: Approx 90 min

Fan Expo Canadapass holders receive priority entrance into the venue. No food or drink is allowed on the premise. No photographs, audio, or video recordings are allowed during the concert.

Source: ANN

August 22 2010 | News | No Comments »

Neon Genesis Evangelion Anima Graphics

By: Ikuto Yamashita, Takuma Kageyama, Hiroyuki Utatane

Large book: 81 pages
Publisher: ASCII Media Works (2010/08)

Visual book features manga “Neon Genesis Evangelion ANIMA” serialized in Dengeki Hobby magazine. Describes the setting of mechas, background, and stories.


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August 22 2010 | Images and Products | No Comments »

Kaworu In Some Car Racing Game

P.S: Sorry If I’ve been inactive for quite a while, it’s because I’m doing some video editing.

August 06 2010 | Videos | No Comments »

Evangelion in Istanbul

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone will be one of the anime films shown in “Japonya Medya Sanatlari Festivali Istanbul’da” (Japan Media Arts Festival in Istanbul)

Others are: “Summer Days with Coo,” “Summer Wars,” “The House of Small Cubes,” “Winter Days,” “The Book of the Dead,” “The Piano Forest” and many others can be seen at the Pera Museum during the exhibition.

The other exhibition is “Ikuo Hirayama: Türkiye, Batiyla Dogu Arasinda bir Kültür Kavsagi” (Ikuo Hirayama: Turkey, a Crossroad of Culture between West and East)

Both exhibitions can — and must — be seen by Oct. 3.

Read the whole article here for more info.

August 06 2010 | News | 1 Comment »

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