Khara

Background

Khara (stylized as khara) was formed on May 17, 2006 by Hideaki Anno, creator of the world-famous sci-fi franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion, after his exit from Gainax with its first project being Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, released the following year. Aside from that, the company was responsible for the rest of the films in the Evangelion franchise among other works. Khara would buy the full rights to Evangelion from Gainax outright in 2014, which led to Netflix picking up the rights to the original television show and its two films and Amazon Studios picking up the Rebuild of Evangelion films for Prime Video, outside of Japan.

Logo (September 1, 2007-)

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Visuals: There is the Khara wordmark, which consists of the Greek word "χαρά" as it zooms in as two split words on a green-blue light. The words later merge with the wordmark briefly being in pink and the words "Studio Khara" appearing at the bottom. Then, the wordmark zooms out for a bit until the light flashes, forming the logo with the words "Studio Khara" being replaced by its Japanese name and the wordmark now being in white before fading to black.

Variant: There is a variant where "Khara, Inc." appears instead of "Studio Khara" at the bottom.

Audio: A lazer-like beaming sound from Ultraman.

Technique: CGI.

Availability: Seen on the Rebuild of Evangelion films beginning with 1.0 You (Are) Not Alone and ending with 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time as well as all later Japanese Blu-ray/DVD prints of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series and its two films.