Anime studio Khara reported on Tuesday that essential animator, director, and screenwriter Hideaki Anno is presently writing screenplays for no no longer up to five assorted works. Plus, if a brand fresh Shin Kamen Rider project is green-lit, Khara‘s co-founder and president would be working on six assorted scripts.
Two days earlier, the studio posted a long message by Anno concerning the even longer production history of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Anno notes the project started the entire manner assist in 2018 with Kazuya Tsurumaki settling on the legend concept that December. Anno continued taking part on the sequence fashion in 2021. He contributed four script drafts in 2022 — whereas simultaneously dealing with post-production work on Shin Kamen Rider and bonus photos for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time.
That is a timeline of my assistance with the script for the theatrical advance launch of GQuuuuuuX -Starting-.
The project started in 2018 when producer Sugitani approached Smash of day (at the time) to admire Tsurumaki negate a Gundam project.
Tsurumaki decided on the project concept of “a fictional war story set in a world where Zeon wins” on December 4, 2018.
Tsurumaki submitted his first proposal on March 14, 2019.
I sent my proposal memo to Sugitani on October 17, 2019.
Tsurumaki submitted a two-web page proposal for presentation to Smash of day on November 7, 2019.
A 54-web page proposal containing the principle form proposal and legend structure became submitted on July 7, 2021. (At this stage, the notion became to animate “until Char steals the Gundam” with about 5 minutes of prologue.)I proposed to Tsurumaki the prequel section be depicted over a sure length, and I wrote the first residing memo on July 30, 2021.
I wrote 12 pages with dialogue, from the scene of birds flying within the region colony to the situation in Aspect 6 after the armistice agreement, and the downside of an amplify in refugees as a consequence of the decline of the Federation. At the second, I became doing post-production for Shin [Ultra]man, making ready for the Hideaki Anno Exhibition, scouting locations for Shin [Kamen] Rider, and keeping conferences with art and costume designers. I roughly build together the information I had been writing in my belief memo since April 22, 2021 in one day.The first draft of the residing, which became a compilation of the amassed belief from my notes, became submitted on August 29, 2021.
After a brief destroy, the revised residing became submitted on February 5, 2022.
Round this time, I became working on post-production for Shin Ultraman and embellishing Shin Kamen Rider and Shin Total Thunderbirds.The first draft of the script became on Could also 12, 2022.
The second draft of the script became on July 6, 2022.
The third draft of the script became on July 14, 2022.
Round this time in 2022, I became working on post-production for Shin Kamen Rider and Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time bonus photos.The fourth draft of the script became on December 4, 2022.
This became the final draft of the script, which I submitted to Tsurumaki for his approval, and then moved on to storyboard work. At the second, I became working on post-production for Shin Rider.
Additionally, I became asked to jot down an additional polished script for the Second Struggle of Solomon, which is for the duration of the second half of the One 12 months Warfare, and I sent the first draft, which additionally served as the residing, on July 12, 2022.
At the identical time, I became additionally helping with ship form and the love. At the second I became additionally working on post-production for Shin Kamen Rider, mainly checking the VFX.
The second draft of the script became done a year later on July 10, 2023.
Tsurumaki obtained the third, and supreme draft, on August 18, 2023.
At the identical time, I became helping with storyboarding and other things for GQuuuuuuX.That’s how I’m “giving back” to Tsurumaki, who has been helping me ever for the reason that key animation for the first episode of Nadia. That’s all there may be to my motivation for GQuuuuuuX.
To build the work more animated, every time I in fact admire time for the duration of pre-production work for Yamato, I am additionally offering varied opinions on the TV sequence concerning any aspects that I’m concerned about. And that’s additionally section of “giving back.”The definite reception and box position of business success of the theatrical advance launch GQuuuuuuX -Starting- will in all probability be a brand fresh achievement for Tsurumaki within the public’s and business’s eyes.
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Blogger MC Iwai took Anno’s March 16 message and other publicly on hand details of Anno’s production schedules to form a complete timeline of his intensive project juggling since December 2018. For instance, in only the first 10 weeks of the fresh year, Anno dealt with the opening day of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, post-production on his Yamato anime, scriptwriting for these five unrevealed initiatives, and contemplating the sixth for yet one more Shin Kamen Rider project.
So … how became your work day?