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is a Japan ese Anime studio most well known for the Series '' Neon Genesis Evangelion '' and its ambitious, experimental works and ambiguous endings. "Gainax Ending" on Television Tropes Wiki Until ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', Gainax typically worked on stories created in-house, but the studio has increasingly developed anime adaptations of existing manga like '''' 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 heavily merchandises its famous properties. For example, even though ''Evangelion'' ended in 1996, games, t-shirts, and various other memorabilia are still being produced. Anime created by Gainax that have won the in 1991, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End Of Evangelion in 1997. 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 film is about a little girl who fights all sorts of monsters, robots, and spaceships from earlier science fiction TV shows (including '' Ultraman '', '' Gundam '', '' 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 was rough and low-quality. 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 various Mobile Suits from the Gundam series, 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, preventing the short from being officially released on DVD , making the limited Laserdisc release (''Daicon Film'') of the Daicon shorts very rare and highly sought after. 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 . In 1995 Gainax produced perhaps their best known series, the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Neon Genesis Evangelion. In the wake of ''Evangelion Gainax marked their 20th anniversary with the production of the sequel to '' Gunbuster '', '' Diebuster ''. WORKS Gainax works include (year given is that of first broadcast, theatre showing, or publishing):
Gainax has also produced a number of computer games, including 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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