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What is the best Hideaki Anno work?

By YPB Team

One director, and a shelf that runs from giant robots to a live-action Godzilla and a man in a grasshopper mask. The famous one is not automatically the best one.

  1. Neon Genesis Evangelion — ranked #11
    Neon Genesis Evangelion
    Anno's 1995 television series, the work every other entry here is measured against.
    1000pts
  2. The End of Evangelion — ranked #22
    The End of Evangelion
    His 1997 film reply to the television finale, and to the people who hated it.
    875pts
  3. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time — ranked #33
    Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
    The 2021 finale of the Rebuild films and the highest-grossing entry in the franchise.
    643pts
  4. Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water — ranked #44
    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
    His 1990 NHK adventure series, loosely built on Jules Verne.
    577pts
  5. Shin Kamen Rider — ranked #55
    Shin Kamen Rider
    His 2023 take on the tokusatsu hero, shot closer to the 1971 original than any remake before it.
    500pts
  6. Gunbuster — ranked #66
    Gunbuster
    His 1988 directorial debut, a six-part OVA that plays tennis-club comedy straight into relativistic tragedy.
    409pts
  7. Love & Pop — ranked #77
    Love & Pop
    His 1998 live-action debut, shot on handheld digital cameras at strange angles.
    409pts
  8. Shin Ultraman — ranked #88
    Shin Ultraman
    The 2022 film he wrote and produced, reworking the 1966 series for a modern audience.
    409pts
  9. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone — ranked #99
    Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
    The 2007 film that restarted the story as a tetralogy.
    409pts
  10. Shin Godzilla — ranked #1010
    Shin Godzilla
    Anno's 2016 live-action reboot, which took Picture of the Year at the Japan Academy Prizes.
    300pts
  11. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo — ranked #1111
    Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
    The 2012 film that jumped fourteen years forward and divided the audience all over again.
    300pts
  12. Kare Kano — ranked #1212
    Kare Kano
    The 1998 romantic comedy series he directed and then walked away from mid-run.
    0pts
  13. Ritual — ranked #1313
    Ritual
    His 2000 live-action film about a director and a woman on a rooftop, adapted from a novel.
    0pts
  14. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance — ranked #1414
    Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
    The 2009 film that broke from the series and added a character who never existed in it.
    0pts

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Picture of the Year at the 2017 Japan Academy Prizes went to Shin Godzilla, seven awards in all. Its director also made seven other lines of this ballot: https://youpick.best/articles/evangelion-ranked-many-ways

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