Hideaki Anno

8 films on Best Blurays5 in 4K3 in HD

Hideaki Anno (born May 22, 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi) is a Japanese animation and film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. His style has come to be defined by the touches of superflatism and postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the thorough portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions, often through unconventional sequences incorporating psychoanalysis and emotional deconstruction of these characters. He married comics artist Moyoco Anno in 27 April 2002. Anime directed by Anno that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in 1990, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hideaki Anno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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5 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)

Co-directors: Kazuya Tsurumaki & Masayuki

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

US GKIDS Blu-ray

Best Video:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray / US GKIDS Blu-ray

US GKIDS Blu-ray for the Amazon English dub

US OOP Funimation Blu-ray for the older Funimation English dub

Additional Info:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray is an upscale, but has less compression artifacts, it also includes the theatrical cut (:1.0) and the DVD cut (:1.01) on standard Blu-ray as bonuses.

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

Co-directors: Masayuki & Kazuya Tsurumaki

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

US GKIDS Blu-ray

Best Video:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray / US GKIDS Blu-ray

US GKIDS Blu-ray for the Amazon English dub

US OOP Funimation Blu-ray for the older Funimation English dub

Additional Info:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray is an upscale, but has less compression artifacts, it also includes the theatrical cut (:2.0) on standard Blu-ray as a bonus.

Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)

Co-directors: Kazuya Tsurumaki & Mahiro Maeda & Masayuki

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly:

US OOP Funimation Blu-ray

Best Video:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Japan King Records

Australia Crunchyroll Blu-ray for the Amazon English dub

US OOP Funimation Blu-ray for the second (home video) Funimation English dub

Unofficial sources only for the first (theatrical) Funimation English dub

Additional Info:

Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray on the box set has inferior encoding than the standalone release, but includes the theatrical (:3.0) and older Blu-ray (:3.33) cuts on standard Blu-ray as bonuses.

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Co-director: Shinji Higuchi

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray > France 4K Blu-ray > Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray; caps

US disc includes original Japanese intertitles, as well as stylized English translations for all of them, both burned-in.

Audio Notes:

US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has no limiting, unlike other releases.

Additional Info:

US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a new English dub, different from the old Funimation US Blu-ray

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)

Co-directors: Katsuichi Nakayama & Kazuya Tsurumaki & Mahiro Maeda

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray for both the original Japanese and the Amazon English dub

Additional Info:

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray has higher bitrate and better encoding than the Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray. Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray on the box set has inferior encoding, but includes the theatrical (:3.0+1.0) and streaming (:3.0+1.01) cuts on standard Blu-ray as bonuses.