In 2015, the animation director of Neon Genesis Evangelion , Hideaki Anno , said that the anime industry would experience a major decline in the future. Now, eight years later, some fans have remembered the director's words and believe he was right due to the coincidences that have occurred so far.
A message from the director of Evangelion predicted the decline of the anime industry
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Originally, Hideaki Anno commented on this future decline of the Japanese animation industry to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti . According to him, Japan will no longer be the center of animation in the future.
"Japanese animation is in decline. It has already reached its peak. After its collapse, there will probably be a new resurgence. I don't believe animation will disappear, but perhaps the conditions that existed until now and that led to the creation of interesting projects will no longer exist. Japan will simply cease to be the center of world animation. Perhaps within five years, Taiwan will become that center."
Fans pointed to the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic as an example of the message, as it was a crisis that affected many people and businesses, including Japan. During this crisis, all planned animations of the time were hampered, and the number of productions was greatly reduced. Therefore, the pandemic affected the deadlines and quality of animations five years after Anno's statement.
Furthermore, the film Evangelion:3.0+1.01: Hope has also been associated with the director's words as part of the predicted "fall." For fans, the latest film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series may have influenced the director's perspective without him realizing it.
As the director's words are linked to these events, some fans believe he was right about the decline. Currently, Anno is focusing on the live-action film market.
Finally, do you believe Hideaki Anno's words and think the anime industry is going to collapse? Leave your comment below!
Source: Kudasai
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