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:
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.
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.
During September in select cinemas around Australia, Madman presents REEL ANIME 2010, showcasing five of the freshest anime feature films this side of Tokyo.
Following the sold-out success of the 2008 Showcase, which featured THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME and APPLESEED: EX MACHINA, this latest crop of films has something for everyone: from the rebuild of the Evangelion universe, EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN [NOT] ADVANCE. and EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE [NOT] ALONE; the masterful storytelling of SUMMER WARS (from the director of THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME); the adrenaline fueled REDLINE; and the thrilling KING OF THORN.
Your chance to see anime on the big screen.
For screening schedule and other news, visit this site.
Here’s the 6th and last progress report of the construction of the life-size Evangelion:
Japan’s Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park has unveiled the world’s first life-size bust of the Evangelion anime’s EVA-01 unit before members of the media on Thursday. The public grand opening of the “Evangelion: World – Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project” pavilion will actually take place next Friday, and the theme park plans to stream the event live on the Ustream website.
The pavilion’s main attraction recreates the scene where the anime’s main character Shinji Ikari encounters the EVA-01 unit in its 7th Cage hangar for the first time. The bust measures 9 meters (about 30 feet) tall and 16 meters (52 feet) wide. The pavilion also has a life-size Entry Plug cockpit of an Evangelion unit (from where visitors can pay to have their photos taken), life-size figures of the character Kaworu Nagisa and the SEELE monoliths, a miniature video theater, a museum, two studio galleries for taking photographs, and a shop. The construction costs of the whole facility eventually added up to 150 million yen (US$1.6 million).
Japanese voice actress Yuko Miyamura and American voice actress Tiffany Grant, who has both voiced character Asuka in the highly popular anime Neon Genesis Evangelion are special guests to the 2010 SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show.
SMASH! is an open and affordable meeting point for the Australian anime fandom.
SMASH! will feature a number of events, including the popular cosplay competition in which fans dress up as characters from Japanese animation, comics and video games. In addition, SMASH! will, for the first time, play host to the Australian finals of the Bandai Action Kit Universal Cup.
“It’s really like the World Cup of Japanese model-making,” said Edward Zhang, the SMASH! Events Director. “SMASH! has partnered with Hobbyco and together we’re hosting the Australian finals of the junior and senior division. The best part is that the winner of each division will receive a trip to Hong Kong to represent Australia and compete in the grand final!”
Other guests are:
· Writer, producer and director Matt Greenfield, who in addition to his prolific production work on anime and live action titles, served as Senior VP of ADVision/ADVFilms for over 15 years.
· Concept and freelance artist Shaun “Endling” Healey.
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· Published comic artist Mikiko Ponczeck.
Tickets for SMASH! are on advance sale for $20 and will be available on the day for $25. Visit www.smash.org.au to buy your tickets and find out more information.
Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima is a Japanese kick boxer known for cosplaying / crossplaying female anime characters, but in the night of his fight he dressed as something different, something like ‘Sachiel‘ from Neon Genesis Evangelion!
This is him the other day with the other fighters, I guess he’s cosplaying Kaworu Nagisa:
link the image to: http://afufu.net/freewill