It’s MAD Monday time again~!
Tadashi Hiramtsu is primarily know for his GAINAX work, but he’s worked a whole of heap of other A+ neato shows like Denno Coil, the OP for BECK, Gad Guard (I need to get that at some point as it seems to have had so many good animators pop in on it), Paranoia Agent, and The Cat Returns.
He’s had a movie adaptation of Ghost Rhapsody on the boil for years, but nothing seems to have come to light yet.
AniPages Daily has a translated interview with him here.
And here’s the MAD. Music is “HIT IN AMERICA” by BEAT CRUSADERS. Be warned the sound mix on this is a out of whack at points.
Actually, the Ghost Rhapsody project is still going on. Hiramatsu said on his blog he might start working on this next year. And Hiroyuki Yamaga said during Fanimecon that Gainax has one movie project based on a shoujo manga.
You will find more here but it’s a bit in french…
http://www.manganimation.net/news/2008/06/tadashi-hiramatsu-x-gainax-ghost-rhapsody/