Hideaki Anno Receives Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon

>The Japanese government announced on Thursday that director Hideaki Anno is receiving the spring 2022 Medal with Purple Ribbon. The medal is awarded to "individuals who have contributed to academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments."

>Past recipients of the honor include:

>Manga creator Shigeru Mizuki in 1991
>Fujio Akatsuka in 1998
>Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata in 1999
>Manga creator Leiji Matsumoto in 2001
>Manga creator Tetsuya Chiba in 2002
>Composer and Studio Ghibli's frequent collaborator Joe Hisaishi in 2009
>Only Yesterday singer Harumi Miyako in 2010
>Manga creator Ryohei Saigan in 2010
>Manga creator Moto Hagio in 2012
>Manga creator and anime director Katsuhiro Otomo in 2013
>Manga creator Keiko Takemiya in 2014
>Anime director Keiichi Hara in 2018
>Manga creator Osamu Akimoto in 2019
>Manga creator Rumiko Takahashi in 2020
>Anime creator Masaaki Yuasa in 2021

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>Ortomo, Yuasa and now Anno
Sasuga, the pillars of the anime industry.

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Why now?

>Draws a bunch of naked underage girls
>gets government award
kinda based ngl

It seems that all kinds of awards are a scam.

Because anime is dead

>yuasa got it before anno
LOL

I kneel

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>Yuasa and Anno
Who are the rest?

Anno!!!!!!!!!

Like Takahashi was relevant to 2020 either. This is one of those deals where people get added to a list as they're recognized and they wait their turn.

Cringe

Based

Best shot in the movie

He looks more like a hobo every time he shows up in front of a camera. How does his wife let him leave the house looking like that? It's like he's going to sneak away behind the gas station and die from an overdose any minute.

Why didn't shitty moe, shitty SoL and shitty shounen creators worshiped by the underage Yea Forums posters receive it too?

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the function of prestige is to glorify the establishment

ITT: Yea Forums has a meltdown

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>all these names and no tomino

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is this similar to a presidential medal of honor in the US or something?

He's kind of the definition of a useful idiot, competent at work but incompetent and dependent in his private life. The type of person the system is going to promote and push forward, because he's uninterested in rebelling or questioning authority.

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Seasonal anime is temporary, Evangelion is forever.

Tomino is too political and opinionated. These are all more or less "safe" authors.

Because touch your self in the nights

Otomo Katsuhiro received though.

Yeah, government award. Gotta imagine they'd call to confirm someone would even show up to receive it before they announce a thing.

Congratulations!

All hacks and never maked a one good anime

Sakura a best

>purple ribbon accented Asuka, Rei and Mari figures on sale soon!

I notice this on other industries as well.
To receive that high award, you have to produce a shit ton of great works. By that time, you're already an old fart.

he got it because he has softened his stance against the LDP over the years
this is the reason Miyasaki will never get it, he hates LDP's guts

yuasa got it because hes a neoliberal genXer with no values, fits right in with modern LDP

Meds, now. Otomo received it and he’s critical about the LDP.

All real otaku look like that

I'm fine with not being the real deal, then.

Why did Anno dislike the LDP?

based he deserves it

How does one acquire Buddha ears?

Me too.

I want to say get old but he always had those. Dude was born with parts of him looking like they came off a 70 year old man.

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He's also a former member of You'll Melt More

Takahata was super political and opinionated as well.

Imagine the bullying, no wonder he was such a wreck when he was younger.

And all he to do was tell the otaku to grow up, get a job and find a bitch with big tits

He's been pretty continuously working on multiple projects for the last couple of years, after slowing down a lot in the 2010s.
He's almost back to the way he looked in the late 90s. Also, he kind of always looked like a hobo, he literally didn't shower for a large portion of his life. The only time he looked kinda well put-together WAS during that slow period in the last decade. I guess a working anno is a stinky anno.

Fujimoto gets it next year right?

hack

Kinda weird Miyazaki hasn't gotten one, right?

>no Tomino
Award disregarded.

>The condition for being given the award was that he would never make another anime
Annobros ?

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Anno is so goddamn ugly.

that's called aging

So are, but you're not a genius animator.

>burns down his most famous series to appease his fragile selfish ego and his cowardly life choices
>gets award

Can never forgive this trite hack anyone would have fired by now, i hope he fades away into obscurity forever. So happy he is never going to animate another thing ever again.

Why do so many aging directors go so unbelievably selfish and egocentric in their twilight years?

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You are taking Eva far too personally.

Aging artists get cynical with age because nobody understood their "genius." There's a convincing theory out there that he made the Rebuilds shit on purpose to troll those fans who didn't get the original message of eva.

That's not a theory, that's just reality

What's the Ballon d'Or of anime world?

You not liking the movie constitutes as burning it down?

And I'm supposed to mindlessly agree with the message? Without considering the author might have a slight problem with hatred and self-worth? A problem that might cause him to not act like an adult or have accurate perception?

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>Why do so many aging directors go so unbelievably selfish and egocentric in their twilight years?
Some can afford it, the older you get the less stuff you can do so it's only normal to indulge a bit.
Anno on the other hand has always been like that and only got worse with age, he's just a spoiled manchild who gets mad at people not satisfying his narcissist urges and licking his boots in a way he doesn't like.

>And I'm supposed to mindlessly agree with the message?
I don't think I implied that.
>Without considering the author might have a slight problem with hatred and self-worth?
Oh, Anno definitely has problems with self-hatred and self-worth, and I picked up on that on my first viewing of eva making the whole experience very awkward and unpleasant and I'm still not a fan of it, even tho my opinions have softened over time.
>A problem that might cause him to not act like an adult or have accurate perception?
I'm not sure what exactly you're getting at but I do think that Anno is a bit of a wack-a-doo no matter how you try to slice it.

Anyone looking for patterns will invariably find them, and that sounds like a massive cope by people who didn't like the movie. Fucker had his life stifled by EVA for one off a decade, he wouldn't have any incentive to make it shit on purpose.

I mean, this is literally the same thing as "oh he made EoE bleak to punish the people who didn't like NGE ending". Gimme a break. You think this guy spends all his time seething at what a bunch of horny otaku think? Dross.

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