Insufficient Direction : Hideaki Anno X Moyoco Anno - Softcover

Moyoco Anno

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939130115 ISBN 13: 9781939130112

Publisher: VERTICAL, 2014

Synopsis

Hideaki Anno is the director of Neon Genesis Evangelion - the multimillion DVD seller than led to the Cartoon Network launching an anime block called Toonami. His Evangelion films are distributed theatrically globally by Warner Bros, each averaging $39 million in US box office sales: the highest for any Japanese animated movie. With Insufficient Direction, Moyoco Anno details her husband's life as a director, while detailing how he evolved from a sci-fi obsessed nerd to an international curator of Japanese pop culture.

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About the Author

Tokyo native Moyoco Anno was born March 26, 1971. Known as one of the major names in Japanese women's comics, she is equally known for her iconic fashion designs and as a fashion writer. Her manga and books have attained considerable popularity among young women in Japan. Though she primarily writes manga for women, her most popular title in the west is Sugar Sugar Rune, which was targeted at primary school-aged girls. In a recent Japanese poll, she was voted the eighth most popular manga artist among females and thirteen in the general category. Most of her works have been adapted for film or TV, including SAKURAN, Hataraki-Man, and Sugar Sugar Rune. In 2005, Anno's Sugar Sugar Rune won the comic artist the prestigious Kodansha Comics Award.

From the Back Cover

From the pen of internationally renowned comic artist Moyoco Anno, comes a biography of one of the animation world's biggest and most polarizing names, her husband Hideaki Anno. Long before Hideaki Anno married Moyoco Anno, he was known as the creator of one of the most popular animated works of all time, Neon Genesis Evangelion. But little was known about the author's personal life. Along came comic artist Moyoco Anno, then came love, then came marriage and then came a comic about how she changed his life. Hopefully for the better.

Edition details

• Publisher: VERTICAL
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939130115
• ISBN 13: 9781939130112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176