Now comes another piece of what must be an emotionally complex situation for Anno, as his production company, Khara, is suing Gainax, the anime studio which Anno himself co-founded in the early 1980s and which produced the Evangelion TV series, along with its associated initial movie trilogy, for roughly 100 million yen (US$885,000).
Happy endings seem to be tough to come by for famed anime (and Shin Godzilla) director Hideaki Anno.
The plaintiff says that a balance of nearly 100 million yen has been outstanding since August of 2014, and is demanding that Gainax render payment.
However, artist Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, character designer for Evangelion and several other Gainax-produced anime, recently challenged that notion through his Twitter account.