Khara, Inc.

Khara, Inc. is a Japanese animation production company established in 2006 by filmmaker and animator Hideaki Anno. The company was created as a production base for Anno's animation and related creative work after his earlier career at Gainax, and it became most closely associated with the Rebuild of Evangelion film project. The four-film series—Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, and Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time—reinterprets and extends the ideas, characters, imagery, and dramatic concerns of Neon Genesis Evangelion rather than functioning as a straightforward continuation of the original television series. Khara's role is that of a creator-led production company. Its activities include animation planning and production, project development, creative supervision, and participation in the production of films and other animated works. The company website presents Khara as a production company headed by Hideaki Anno and provides information about its news and works. The studio's public identity is therefore centered less on a broad consumer-product portfolio than on selected, high-profile audiovisual projects controlled or guided by its creative leadership. The Rebuild of Evangelion films made Khara an important name in Japanese animation and gave the company an international profile through theatrical distribution, home-video releases, streaming availability, licensing, merchandise, and related cultural activity. Evangelion's visual design, music, characters, and story world have also supported collaborations and promotional activity beyond the films themselves, although such activities are generally tied to the wider Evangelion property rather than presented as a conventional Khara product line. Khara is also associated with Anno's broader animation and filmmaking activities. Its positioning is consequently that of a specialist, quality-focused Japanese animation studio with a strong authorial identity. The company should not be confused with similarly named businesses or with the Evangelion franchise as a separate rights and merchandising category. Publicly available information in the supplied reference material is limited, so detailed ownership, staffing, financial, and operating-market information is not established here.

Khara, Inc. was founded in 2006 by Hideaki Anno as a Japanese animation production company. Its formation gave Anno a company through which to organize and produce animation projects under his own creative leadership. The studio's name became internationally recognized through the Rebuild of Evangelion project, a series of animated theatrical films that revisited the world and themes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The Rebuild project comprised four films released over an extended production period: Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, and Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time. Rather than simply remaking the original television narrative, the films introduced changes in plot, characterization, visual presentation, and thematic direction. Khara's identity became closely linked to the project's production, creative management, and long-term completion. Through Evangelion, Khara operated at the intersection of animation production and intellectual-property development. The company's work reached audiences through theatrical exhibition and subsequent distribution formats, while the Evangelion property supported extensive publishing, licensing, merchandise, promotional, and collaborative activity. These activities increased the visibility of Khara's principal production work, although the studio itself remains primarily a production company rather than a mass-market retail brand. The company website describes Khara as a production company led by Hideaki Anno and provides official information about its news and works. Khara is best understood as a specialist Japanese animation studio whose public profile is built around selected projects and a distinctive creative leadership structure. Information about its complete project slate, staffing, ownership, financial performance, and internal organization is not sufficiently documented in the supplied reference material to state confidently.

• 2006

  Khara is established

  [1]Khara, Inc. official websitekhara.co.jp

  Hideaki Anno establishes Khara, Inc. as a Japanese animation production company.

Creator-led, high-quality Japanese animation production with a strong authorial and franchise-production identity.

• Animated feature film series

  Rebuild of Evangelion film series

  Khara's best-known production is the four-film Rebuild of Evangelion series. The project reinterprets the setting, characters, conflicts, and visual language associated with Neon Genesis Evangelion for theatrical animation. It became the central work associated with Khara and expanded the studio's profile in Japan and internationally.

1. 1Khara, Inc. official websitekhara.co.jp