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(pronounced 'guy-nax') is a Japan ese Anime studio most famous for the Television Series '' Neon Genesis Evangelion ''. Gainax is known for its ambitious, experimental anime and controversial endings. Throughout its history, Gainax has been plagued by budgetary problems and poor management, and in the wake of Evangelion 's success, Gainax evaded taxes and its President, Takeshi Sawamura , was sentenced to jail for accounting fraud. Although until '' and He Is My Master versus more experimental works that follow the company's traditions, such as FLCL and Gunbuster 2 . In addition to anime production, Gainax relies heavily on merchandising its famous properties. Even though the show ended in 1996, Evangelion video games, t-shirts, and accessories are still being produced. HISTORY The studio was formed in the early 1980 s as ''Daicon Film'' by university students Hideaki Anno , Yoshiyuki Sadamoto , Takami Akai , and Shinji Higuchi . Their first project was to make an animated short for the 20th Annual Japan National SF Convention, also known as ''Daicon III'', held in 1981 in Osaka, Japan . The short is about a little girl who fights all sorts of monsters, robots, and spaceships from earlier science fiction TV shows (including '' Ultraman '', '' Space Battleship Yamato '', '' Star Trek '', '' Star Wars '', '' Godzilla '' and many others) until she finally reaches a desert plain and pours a glass of water on a dried-out Daikon Radish , which immediately resurrects itself and grows into a huge spaceship and beams her aboard. While this animated short was ambitious, its animation quality was rough and low-quality. An interpretation of the short that has floated around the net is that the water represents creativity and imagination, and the monsters and other adversaries confronting the girl represent those who try to quash the creative spirit for whatever reason. The group made a much bigger splash at the 22nd Annual Japan National SF Convention, bunny suit, fighting an even wider selection of creatures from all sorts of science fiction and fantasy movies and novels (appearances include Darth Vader , an Alien , a '' Macross '' Valkyrie, a Pern dragon, Aslan , a Klingon battle cruiser, Spider-Man , and a pan across a vast array of hundreds of other characters) as she surfs through the sky on the sword Stormbringer . The action was set to the song ''Twilight'' from the group Electric Light Orchestra . The use of this song, however, was unlicensed, and so all recent releases of the Daicon IV short (LD and DVD) have been silent, animation-only releases. The song was used again, legitimately licensed for the opening of the Japanese live-action TV series "Densha Otoko," which had opening animation by GONZO. The Daicon IV short firmly established Daicon Film as a talented new anime studio. The studio changed its name to Gainax in 1985 . WORKS Gainax works include (year given is that of first broadcast, theatre showing, or publishing):
Gainax has also produced a number of computer games, inlcuding a strip Mahjong game featuring ''Evangelion'' characters, and its most famous games, the '' Princess Maker '' series, which was later adapted as ''Puchi Puri Yūshi.'' DAICON TOKUSATSU FAN FILMS As Daicon Films, Gainax was also notable for making a series of Tokusatsu Fan Film shorts in the 1980s, usually parodies of monster movies and superhero shows, which have gotten lots of favorable media coverage. These productions included:
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