 In a blog post published on Friday, Gainax president Hiroyuki Yamaga announced that, as of June 2017, the studio has begun production of its upcoming anime movie Aoki Uru (Uru in Blue).Aoki Uru is billed as a sequel to Gainax's 1987 production Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa (Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise), which was produced on the most expensive budget for an anime movie at the time at 800 million yen. Plans for the sequel's production had stalled in the 1990s before it was relaunched at the 2013 Tokyo International Anime Fair. Gainax also solicited investors to help fund Aoki Uru at the Cannes Film Market and at Singapore's Anime Festival Asia in 2014. Yamaga's announcement comes after the Tokyo District Court handed its decision on Friday in a lawsuit against Gainax by director Hideaki Anno's studio Khara. The lawsuit alleges that Gainax did not repay a loan provided by Khara in August 2014, and that it has not paid royalties for Anno's works after the director left Gainax. The Tokyo District Court awarded Khara with 100 million yen (US$900,000) in its decision. The Sankei Shimbun newspaper reports that Gainax does not plan to appeal the decision. In the blog post, Yamaga apologized for causing worry due to the lawsuit and indicates that Gainax intends to continue producing new works. Source: Gainax, Sankei Shimbun |
mta_pnFeb 17, 2022 6:10 PM
| Kinda interested why the hell they want to make this movie so fking badly. Almost 3 decades long delay lmao I almost wanna check the original work, but not until this is actually out. |
| But Gainax is dead xd |
| They're desperate to recoup the $900K they lost for their tyranny, get rekt and take the L Gainax, you did dirty. |
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| Lol i thought Gainax is dead, they better bring back the Sakuga awesomeness just like in previous decade. |
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Symphyon said: Welp I'm interested in this in all honesty, but because of the issue regarding on Gainax... am I the only one that will call out or probably call it that they will go bankrupt after this one? I'm not too sure about that but this is just an assumption unless they have something to stand around. If they have to go, at least they will go with a bang. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Symphyon said: Well, if the movie sells well, probably not.Or end up like Manglobe where a series started off decently, went downhill in the middle section and then decided to give that horrible ending with no actual clarification, context nor actual conclusion. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: (I highly doubt it would happen... right? Hopefully they don't go that route if they go bankrupt tbh) And while Manglobe going bankrupt probably affected the fact that the production was a mess, I doubt that has anything to do with the random ending. |
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SkyDrop said: Interesting! Hope the sequel comes out and that will force me to watch the 1987's movie! Looking forward to this how 30 years of thinking stuff gets darn good! Basically, if you have no seen Wings by now, you can't claim to be an anime fan. ———— To the story; Gainax = very bad (or sick!) company! They are so desperate for cash they will try and scrooge Anno. Let's just be honest here, the new film will suck because Anno was the guy who made the original good. |
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| I didn't know Gainax still functions. I'm afraid there's no way they will make anything worth noting any more after loosing people to Khara and whatever was that studio that made some garbage and failed attempt at recreating Gainax style. Trigger? Mappa? Hard to keep track with so many established studios going down and dozens of no names with nothing much to show popping out left and right. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| good luck finishing it early then since a lot of Gainax veterans no longer work there |
| Medaka box S3 when? |
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| I feel a bit bad for them, so maybe I'll check that movie out. |
| I could have sworn I head that this studio closed a while ago ago. |
| Eva and Gurren Laggan are their last straws. |
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| That tomato farm must have made them millions XD |
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| im more worried about what they'll do with aim for the top 3. i dont want one of my favorite franchises ruined. just give it to khara for some nice cash, gainax, and let them take care of it. |
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| These comments hurt to read. People here really don't understand how the industry works at all huh. |
| Anno is Khara now. You even see that in rebuilds, so Gainax has nothing to do with Eva now (at least not as creators). Really sad end to one of the best studios in the industry. There are always TTGL movies to rewatch. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| Aint ever seeing this now |
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