

Back in 1995, the studio Gainax, under the leadership of Hideaki Anno, made
Evangelion. This was widely agreed to be an epochal thing, and Gainax was
hailed as a great studio. They followed up with a series of other critically
succesful works - FLCL in 2000, Diebuster in 2004, and Gurren Lagann in 2007.
(Which is not to say that _all_ of their works were great - but some of them
certainly were.)

Today, it is often said that Gainax has fallen from grace. Their recent works
are... somewhat less epochal - Houkago no Pleiades in 2011; Medaka Box in 2011
with a sequel in 2012; C3-bu in 2013; and (currently airing) Magica Wars in
2014.

This motivates the following question: **is there anybody left at Gainax who
worked on Evangelion back in 1995?** It's often claimed that a large part of
Gainax (including Anno) left to form Studio Khara (for Rebuild), and that the
rest of the good people (including e.g. Imaishi Hiroyuki, i.e. the Gurren
Lagann people) left to form Studio Trigger. If it is, in fact, the case that
there's basically nothing connecting 1995 Gainax to 2014 Gainax besides the
institutional name, that would do much to explain Gainax's "fall".


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As of 2014, are there any people at Gainax who worked on Evangelion (the TV series)?


In 2011, many main creators did drop out from Gainax. They are the members of
the 'Gurren Lagann' and 'Panty & Stocking' creator.

[Panty & Stocking with Garter Belt
Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panty_%26_Stocking_with_Garterbelt)

After that, those members build a new company named 'TRIGGER Inc.' as the
anime studio of course.

[Trigger Company](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_%28company%29)

When they make the anime 'Kill la Kill', answered the question of the 'Gainax
drop out'.

[ガイナックスを辞めた理由。新作「キルラキル」トリガー大塚雅彦代表に聞く１ - Why they dropped out from Gainax. We
asked Otsuka CEO of the Trigger of new anime 'Kill la
Kill'.](http://www.excite.co.jp/News/reviewmov/20131003/E1380729604652.html)

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> ガイナックスを飛び出し、身軽さを手に入れたかった

\---English---

> We want to spring out from Gainax, and take the free from the burden for the
> new challenges.

In fact, they have continued the new challenge.

[Little Witch Academia 2
Crowfunding](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-
academia-2)

You can interpret this as the fall of Gainax. But I do not think so. There is
no doubt that Gainax has grown them. When the grown birds leave the nest,
their parents should be relieved. However, I think I might be the minority,
but I think that they ought to be praised.

Today, Gainax is too large. I think that their current essential work now,
grow the people, and make the affiliates. Studio Color, A-1, Trigger, those
are the works of the Gainax I think.


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