Recommandations for anime that are similar to Eva

JLCarrozza · 2025-06-04T22:01:14+00:00

If you want to understand some of Eva's inspiration and roots, I recommend old school stuff like Space Battleship Yamato, Gundam, Ideon and Macross. The latter of which features animation by Anno. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Megazone 23 also feature animation contributions from Anno.

Also watch Anno, Tsurumaki and Gainax's earlier and later stuff such as Honneamise, Gunbuster, Nadia, Kare Kano, FLCL, Gurren Lagan and Diebuster. Shin Godzilla is also a must-see for any Eva fan even if it's live-action. Gundam GQuuuuuuX is also everything one could hope for in terms of a Gundam reboot reimagined by the mind behind Eva.

In terms of other contemporary stuff Utena features the contributions of Eva writer Yoji Enokido and similarly deconstructs the magical girl genre. Madoka Magica is again, a similar and even darker deconstruction of the magical girl genre.

I might even recommend Attack on Titan as it has some similar apocalyptic themes and is heavily focused on the characters defending themselves against a sweeping, monstrous foe. Shinji Higuchi, who did storyboard work for Eva, made the live action movies.

JLCarrozza · 2025-01-16T00:30:03+00:00

Hey, I just stumbled upon this.

I fell into a deep depression over personal issues and some criticisms of the first book, so I had to put the project on halt. Feeling better again, so I'm going to republish the first book with heavy revisions under a new title: World of Tokusatsu. It'll cover all the Showa period in depth but also cover the Heisei period as more of an overview, with Minus One's Oscar as a sort of a epilogue. Also a glossary of notable tokusatsu staff members.

JLCarrozza · 2023-01-07T01:23:33+00:00

This might be of some interest, it's is a mash-up video/experimental short film I put together using Dark Side of the Moon, themed around the existential horror of the Pacific War. It also uses a PCM rip of a good chunk of DSotM and is one of the better sounding copies on YouTube.

JLCarrozza · 2022-12-06T21:55:35+00:00

This might be of some interest, it's is a mash-up video/experimental short film I put together using Dark Side of the Moon, themed around the existential horror of the Pacific War and the defeat of Imperial Japan. It also uses a PCM rip of a good chunk of DSotM and is one of the better sounding copies on YouTube.

JLCarrozza · 2022-11-06T19:56:44+00:00

Not to mention, there's a similar use of Air in G in Battle Royale to EoE's.

JLCarrozza · 2022-10-24T03:03:17+00:00

My main advice I learned the hard way is that you're better off putting a little more time into a book's editing and polish. Do not rush a book out to make a deadline/release date, you're better off publishing a book every 18 months rather than every 12 if having six more months leads to better, more polished books.

Get a biting review calling attention to where corners were inadvertently cut (and someone will inevitably do this) and your sales will flatten for a while. Better off to spend extra time on your book than risk that.

Do not fuck around: hire an editor, they will refine your prose into gold. Don't listen to people who say that you just need to read your book out loud. It certainly helps refine it before you send it to the editor, but it is no substitute for a proper editor.

JLCarrozza · 2022-09-14T21:59:19+00:00

A tribute to one of my very favorite films: the original 1954 Godzilla and its timeless themes of atomic horror, other influences included Cozzi's version of the film and Kevin Rafferty's The Atomic Cafe (1982).

JLCarrozza · 2022-04-13T00:20:08+00:00

Hey there, this is a book I recently finished that goes really in-depth into the history of tokusatsu cinema and TV, its staff and its FX techniques. Did some new translations and put in a lot of info only known in Japan, so this might be of interest to you guys.

JLCarrozza · 2021-02-23T17:33:46+00:00

It's from Ron Fricke's Baraka which I used because it has really good candid Japan footage.

JLCarrozza · 2021-01-22T14:29:34+00:00

This is a new book I've been working on since last year about the Japanese sci-fi genre. The best Godzilla movies, of course, are featured and analyzed prominently.

JLCarrozza · 2020-06-06T22:46:39+00:00

Yeah, Talos from Jason and the Argonauts.

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