>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
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.
Carter Taylor
Cringe
Kevin Baker
Based
Levi Gray
Best shot in the movie
Thomas Garcia
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.
Charles Green
Why didn't shitty moe, shitty SoL and shitty shounen creators worshiped by the underage Yea Forums posters receive it too?
is this similar to a presidential medal of honor in the US or something?
Carter Gonzalez
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.
Seasonal anime is temporary, Evangelion is forever.
Henry Ortiz
Tomino is too political and opinionated. These are all more or less "safe" authors.
Ethan Rodriguez
Because touch your self in the nights
Nathaniel Cruz
Otomo Katsuhiro received though.
Caleb Nguyen
Yeah, government award. Gotta imagine they'd call to confirm someone would even show up to receive it before they announce a thing.
Hudson Taylor
Congratulations!
Juan Powell
All hacks and never maked a one good anime
William Powell
Sakura a best
Nicholas Diaz
>purple ribbon accented Asuka, Rei and Mari figures on sale soon!
Elijah Cox
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.
Easton Cooper
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
Carson Baker
Meds, now. Otomo received it and he’s critical about the LDP.
Jackson Cox
All real otaku look like that
Joshua Turner
I'm fine with not being the real deal, then.
Connor Johnson
Why did Anno dislike the LDP?
Easton Cruz
based he deserves it
Hudson Hughes
How does one acquire Buddha ears?
James Murphy
Me too.
Lincoln Ramirez
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.
Takahata was super political and opinionated as well.
Ian Reed
Imagine the bullying, no wonder he was such a wreck when he was younger.
Ayden Gray
And all he to do was tell the otaku to grow up, get a job and find a bitch with big tits
Logan Martin
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.
Andrew Cook
Fujimoto gets it next year right?
Justin Turner
hack
Christopher Lee
Kinda weird Miyazaki hasn't gotten one, right?
Nathaniel Johnson
>no Tomino Award disregarded.
Luis Hall
>The condition for being given the award was that he would never make another anime Annobros ?
>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?
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.
William Rodriguez
That's not a theory, that's just reality
Robert Scott
What's the Ballon d'Or of anime world?
Jaxon Long
You not liking the movie constitutes as burning it down?
Jeremiah Thomas
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?
>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.
David Campbell
>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.
William Howard
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.
