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© GAINAX・中島かずき/アニプレックス・KDE-J・テレビ東京・電通
Special Exhibition
The Theory of Gainax Animation - A Flock of People Makes Animation!
This fall, at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, we are organizing the exhibition "The Theory of Gainax Animation - A Flock of People Makes Animation!".
It is a special exhibition that will show you how Gainax created its business scheme to produce masterpieces over a period of thirty years, works like "The Wings of Honneamise", "Aim for The Top!", "Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water", "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "FLCL", and "Gurren Lagann".
Additionally, this special exhibition will also be the main venue for the yearly contents festival "KYOTO CMEX2012".
Make sure not to miss the opportunity to witness how animation is made this fall at the Manga Musuem!
| Period |
September 22 - December 24, 2012 *10am - 6pm (Admission to the museum until 5:30) *Closed every Wednesday (If Wednesday is a holiday, the next day)、and 10/7 (Sunday) |
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| Venue |
Kyoto International Manga Museum 2F <1st venue> Galleries 1・2・3 <2nd venue> Gallery 4 |
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| Fee | <1st venue> |
Adults 1,000yen, high school students 500yen, elementary school students 300yen *This price includes the Museum's admission fee *On November 2 it is "Kansai Culture Day", and general admission to the museum is free, however, there will be a fee for the special exhibition (200yen for adults, high school students, and elementary school students) |
<2nd venue> |
Free |
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Organization
Kyoto International Manga Museum, KYOTO CMEX Organizational Committee, Gainax Ltd.
Exhibition Contents
It is no exaggeration to say that the dynamism of the anime works by Gainax has set the trends in the anime industry. Thanks to a wealth of material and exhaustive date we are able to exhibit everything from the moment a project is born, to the process of how the contents grow when the announcement of a work transforms into a huge market.
Here you can find the real site of anime production, something you'll never see in business or textbooks!
Basically, we are showing the production order to make an entire work. In this exhibition, we would like visitors to see the management power it takes to support people and technique and creation.
<1st venue> Gallery 1 and 2
We are reproducing the anime production projects, the production team, the scenario meetings, the character design, the art, photography, every single process involved, with desks and material actually used at Gainax, so you can view the roles of all the people involved. You will be able to witness how animation is made.
<1st venue> Gallery 3
This is a "fan room" of works made by Gainax. Please enjoy the valuable artifacts.
<2nd venue> Gallery 4 (free access)
This is a room where you can watch a selection of animation made by Gainax. A number of related artifacts are exhibited too, and here you can find articles you can buy too
Workshop
Conjunction Project MM Workshop
The Theory of Gainax Animation
"Let's create anime characters!"
When making manga and anime, an important point is the creating of characters. In conjunctions with our current special exhibition, and based on GAINAX know-how about how to create characters, we will let you have fun making your own characters! We will exhibit the finished product in our workshop corner. Maybe someone in the business will discover your talent during the special exhibition!!?? Go on, take the challenge!
| Date |
September 22 - December 24 , every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday. 11 am - 5 pm (reception until 4:30 pm) |
| Venue | Kyoto Manga Museum 1F Atrium |
| Fee |
Free |
| Time required | About 60 minutes |
| Capacity |
unlimited There are a limited number of seats, please line up in orderly fashion when it is crowded. |
| How to participate | no registration required, please apply at the reception of the venue |
| Target audience | Over elementary school students |
Related Events
Opening event
Talk show "Let's talk about how to make animation the Gainax way"
In the first part, Takami Akai, producer at Gainax, and Takeshi Yoro, executive director of the Museum, will have a debate, and in the second part, the session will focus on real talk by heavy weights in the Japanese anime industry, about how Gainax was able to produce acclaimed works for thirty years, and about the difficulties of producers and the involvement of creators.
We are also planning a special screening of "The Wings of Honneamise"
The talk show will be held only in Japanese.
| Date |
September 22, 2012 Part 1：1pm - 2pm （debate） Part 2：2:30om - 5:30pm （talk show, special screening） |
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| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 1F Multipurpose Hall | |
| Fee |
Free |
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| Featuring | Part 1 |
Takami Akai (Gainax Producers) Takeshi Yoro（Kyoto International Manga Museum Exective Director） |
| Part 2 |
Hiroyuki Yamaga（Gainax President） Yasuhiro Takeda（Gainax Director） Yoshinori Asao（Gainax Producer） and others |
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| Capacity | 200 seats | |
| How to participate |
Registration is not required Numbered tickets will be distributed starting at 10 am inside the museum. |
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A whole day about "Gurren Lagann"
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the first airing of "Gurren Lagann", we are screening a secret documentary, the film as it was shown in theatres, and we have also planned a talk show with special guests, it is a day during which you will be able to enjoy "Gurren Lagann" to the fullest extent!
| Date |
September 23, 2012 11am - |
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Inoue Marina, who voices Yoko, and screen writer Nakashima Kazuki are our special guests!
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| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 1F Multipurpose Hall | ||||||||
| Fee |
Free |
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| Capacity | 200 seats (on a first come basis) | ||||||||
| How to participate |
Registration is not required Numbered tickets will be distributed starting at 10 am inside the museum. |
About Gainax
The root of Gainax was born in 1981, during a Japanese SciFi Convention held by a group of students in Osaka. Director Yasuhiro Takeda served as the head of the board of directors and legendary creators like Hiroyuki Yamaga, Hideaki Anno and Takami Akai gathered there, and their opening animation, a work they had started from scratch, became legend too because of its amazing quality. After the convention, they continued to work as an amateur video production group and challenged other genres like live action special effects. Through trial and error, they built Gainax's unique "personality". Their first commercial work was the theatre release of the fulllength animated feature "Royal Space Force", and during production the company Gainax was established. This work, under the direction of Yamaga, features elite staff members, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and character design by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and it revolutionized the anime market for children. Gainax's next works, Director Anno's directly to video animation "Aim for the Top!" and the TV animated series "Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water", gained them many more fans, and the famous work "Neon Genesis Evangelion" developed into one of the biggest cultural and societal phenomena of the twentieth century. Today, Gainax works on projects and production focusing on animation, as well as developing and selling software exhaustively covering digital media, as well as event planning, live action films, and other new businesses. They continue to create, not for the company, but considering what is best for the works, making their own way and carrying on the Gainax spirit.
KYOTO CMEX
Together with the industries, academia, and the public, KYOTO CMEX organizes events that send out, on a national and international level, contents like film, video, games, manga, and anime, developing cross-media that showcase the appeal of contents from Kyoto, and tries to support human resource development that supports the promotion of the contents industry. This year this a project linked with the Kyoto international Manga Anime Fair, the inaugural and largest West Japan Manga and Animation Trade Fair.
