khara

khara, Inc. Type Film/television company Status Active Lead by Hideaki Anno (CEO) Tomoyuki Ogata (COO) Founder(s) Hideaki Anno Founded May 17, 2006 Head- quarters 3-35-18 Shoan, Suginami Tokyo, Japan 167-0054 Subsidiary companies Studio khara Project Studio Q (33%) Website https://www.khara.co.jp

khara, Inc. (株式会社カラー,   Kabushiki Gaisha Karā, stylized χαρα) is a Japanese film studio founded and owned by Hideaki Anno. It is most famous for its Rebuild of Evangelion (2007-2021) anime film series, which it wholly financed. Within the tokusatsu sphere, khara has also been involved with the three live action entries in Anno's Shin anthology series, creating the previz for Shin Godzilla (2016) and co-funding Shin Ultraman (2022) and Shin Kamen Rider (2023). Before then, it co-produced the tokusatsu short film Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012) for Studio Ghibli.

Selected filmography

• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) - Financier / producer [Studio khara]
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009) - Financier / producer [Studio khara]
• Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012) - Producer [with Tokusatsu Laboratory]
• Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012) - Financier / producer [Studio khara]
• Shin Godzilla (2016) - Previz producer / monitor graphic designer
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time (2021) - Financier / producer [Studio khara]
• Evangelion: 3.0 (-46h) (video 2021) - Financier / producer
• Shin Ultraman (2022) - Financier [with the Shin Ultraman Film Partners]
• Shin Ultra Fight (web 2022) - Financier [with Tsuburaya Productions, Toho]
• Shin Kamen Rider (2023) - Financier [with the Shin Kamen Rider Film Partners]
• S.J.H.U. Project: Shin Universe Robo commercial (2023) - Special thanks
• Kaiju No. 8 (TV 2024) - Kaiju supervision [Studio khara]

Selected staff

• Hideaki Anno, president and CEO
• Ikki Todoroki, managing director
• Masayuki, executive advisor
• Mahiro Maeda, animation director

Trivia

• Hideaki Anno's wife, manga artist Moyoko Anno, named the company and designed its logo. "khara" is based on the Greek word for joy.

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