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Gainax

Japanese anime studio
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Gainax is a Japanese animation studio co-founded in December 1984 by Anno Hideaki and friends from Osaka University. The studio's first major project was the anime film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honn\u00eaamise (1987), which, despite a record budget, failed to recoup its costs. Gainax found its first commercial success with the anime series Aim for the Top! (1988\u201389), directed by Anno.1

The studio's most significant work, Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995\u201396), was a critical and commercial success that saved Gainax from financial ruin. This series, a deconstruction of the mecha anime genre, followed a depressed teenager piloting a giant robot against monstrous "Angels". Anno later directed two film versions of Evangelion with alternate endings and also worked on live-action films and the "Shin" series of movies.12

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