Tales of human will and technology intertwined through giant machines of war or hope.
Release: 1987-02
In 2032, Tokyo rebuilt after a massive quake faces chaos from rogue androids and corporate power. The vigilante team Knight Sabers rise to protect the city’s streets from Genom’s deadly creations.
From *Gunbuster* to *Bubblegum Crisis* and *PLUTO*, exploring how the OVA spirit of creative freedom echoes through today’s short-form anime.
Release: 2007-09
The first Rebuild of Evangelion film follows Shinji Ikari as he is brought to NERV, pilots Evangelion Unit-01, and confronts the early Angel attacks threatening Tokyo-3.
A dAIa-log dialogue on nostalgia IP, reading anime, toys, remakes, and fan creation as ways fiction takes time to become real in the age of AI.
Release: 2009-06
The second Rebuild of Evangelion film follows Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Mari, and NERV as new Evangelion pilots, Angel battles, and personal conflicts push the story toward a large-scale catastrophe.
A dAIa-log dialogue on nostalgia IP, reading anime, toys, remakes, and fan creation as ways fiction takes time to become real in the age of AI.
Release: 2012-11
The third Rebuild of Evangelion film follows Shinji after he awakens in a transformed world fourteen years later, facing WILLE, NERV, Kaworu, and the consequences of the previous impact.
A dAIa-log dialogue on nostalgia IP, reading anime, toys, remakes, and fan creation as ways fiction takes time to become real in the age of AI.
Release: 2021-03
The concluding Rebuild of Evangelion film follows Shinji, Asuka, Rei, Mari, WILLE, and NERV through the final confrontation over Instrumentality, Evangelions, and the future of humanity.
A dAIa-log dialogue on nostalgia IP, reading anime, toys, remakes, and fan creation as ways fiction takes time to become real in the age of AI.
Release: 2005-04
A sci-fi mecha series set in a future where humanity battles the Shadow Angels using the uniting power of the legendary machine Aquarion, guided by reincarnated souls of the past.
How anime opening themes (OPs) tell stories before the story itself — from *ARIA* to *Madoka Magica* and *Aquarion*.
Release: 1988-10
In a future where humanity battles mysterious space monsters, a young cadet trains under harsh discipline to pilot the ultimate weapon, Gunbuster. Her journey from failure to courage turns a tale of science fiction into one of pure guts and grit.
From *Gunbuster* to *Bubblegum Crisis* and *PLUTO*, exploring how the OVA spirit of creative freedom echoes through today’s short-form anime.
Release: 1996-10
A sci-fi comedy about a ragtag civilian crew piloting the battleship Nadesico in a war between Earth and Jupiter, blending space opera drama with self-aware parody.
How anime opening themes (OPs) tell stories before the story itself — from *ARIA* to *Madoka Magica* and *Aquarion*.
Release: 1988-04
A fantasy mecha adventure in which a boy is summoned to a magical world and fights through episodic trials with his robot allies to defeat an evil ruler.
Starting from Tamako Market, this essay explores the shōtengai as a spatial form of the everyday—tracing its historical development, institutional structure, and narrative role as a boundary between ordinary and extraordinary life in anime.
Release: 2022-10
A Gundam television series set around corporate mobile-suit development and an academy duel system, where Suletta Mercury's arrival exposes family, technology, and political power struggles.
A dAIa-log dialogue on nostalgia IP, reading anime, toys, remakes, and fan creation as ways fiction takes time to become real in the age of AI.
Release: 1995-10
A landmark anime where teenagers pilot giant bio-mechanical units to fight mysterious beings called Angels, exploring themes of identity, fear, and human connection.
Tracing how Kapitaro’s “Osorezan Le Voile” grew from Nico Nico and Vocaloid-era fan creation into *Shaman King*’s most definitive anime ending—through Reiwa remakes, Japanese era-name intuition, and a thought on what generative AI can’t replicate.
How anime opening themes (OPs) tell stories before the story itself — from *ARIA* to *Madoka Magica* and *Aquarion*.
Why can humans receive meaning without fully understanding it? A dAIa-log dialogue exploring intuition, cognitive shortcuts, and layers of understanding through anime examples like Kiki’s Delivery Service and Evangelion.
A dAIa-log dialogue exploring rain in Japanese animation as motif, emotional amplifier, and narrative device — from The Garden of Words and Totoro to Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop.
A dAIa-log dialogue examining rain in anime as a shift from private, viscous interiority to a shared and whitened social condition—linking Evangelion-era “liquid” motifs, 2000s dampness, and contemporary visual purification.
A dAIa-log dialogue with ChatGPT defining rain-like expression in anime by asking what rain does, what makes it specific, and how its function might be applied without depicting rain itself.
A dAIa-log dialogue on nostalgia IP, reading anime, toys, remakes, and fan creation as ways fiction takes time to become real in the age of AI.
A co-laborAItion essay on why *Gnosia* somehow holds together—tracing its narrative coherence through script composition, counterfactual thinking, and the behavior of world lines.
An autograph essay beginning from Yuna’s 2026 Sword Art Online live performance, tracing fiction-reality synchronization, SAO’s technological invention of another world, AI, death, empathy, and continued existence.
Release: 2002-02
Across the widening void between Earth and deep space, two separated teens cling to their bond through messages delayed by light-years. A quiet tale of love, distance, and time — the origin of Shinkai’s Sekai-kei vision.
From *Gunbuster* to *Bubblegum Crisis* and *PLUTO*, exploring how the OVA spirit of creative freedom echoes through today’s short-form anime.