From what I understand the artists that made Evangelion moved on or retired a long time ago, which is probably part of why the studio hadn’t made anything as culturally relevant since the 00s.
Gainax staff had left and split into multiple companies like 2 decades ago, and I think many of those companies have already split off into their own companies.
Personally I’m more interested in the FLCL side of the company and the stuff they put out over the Eva side which seems to only rehash Eva.
To be fair the flcl side has been largely rehashing that as well iirc. The original series and it’s soundtrack are goated. I’ve watched the ones after and they were okay. Though it’s always hard to match that first bog hit.
The FLCL sequels were made at Production I.G., Gainax just licensed out the IP. There’s no real overlap in the people who worked on it either; I think just the director, and only in the role of “supervisor”, and the original character designer.
Unfortunately, that’s what most of these companies and studios have largely become. Risk averse IP leasing crews.
I remember seeing a while back that they were looking to restart reboot or somehow continue some of Rumiko Takahashi’s IP from the 80s. I think they did produce some new episodes of Those Annoying Aliens and there was talk of new Ranma 1/2 as well. I’m sure Inuyasha 2 is somewhere in the pipeline.
The most recent work by the director (Tsurumaki Kazuya) and writer (Enokido Youji) of FLCL is Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, at Khara, Anno Hideaki’s studio. Some other prolific people who worked on FLCL, Imaishi Hiroyuki and Ootsuka Masahiko, are now the big cheeses at Studio Trigger. Yoshinari You also mostly works at Trigger.
