khara

khara, Inc. Type Film/television company Status Active Led 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 A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo (2012) for Studio Ghibli.

Selected filmography

Financier

• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
• Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time (2021)
• Shin Ultraman (2022) [with the Shin Ultraman Film Partners]
• Shin Ultra Fight (web 2022) [with Tsuburaya Productions, Toho]
• Evangelion: 3.0 (-46h) (video 2023)
• Shin Kamen Rider (2023) [with the Shin Kamen Rider Film Partners]

Production company

• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) [Studio khara]
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009) [Studio khara]
• A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo (2012) [with Tokusatsu Lab]
• Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012) [Studio khara]
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time (2021) [Studio khara]

Miscellaneous

• Shin Godzilla (2016) - Previz producer / monitor graphic designer
• Evangelion: 3.0 (-46h) (video 2023) - CGI and VFX / 3DCG / special effects photography [all Studio khara]
• 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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