{"id":85575,"date":"2024-05-07T21:52:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=85575"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:57:05","slug":"angels-egg-ova-to-get-4k-remaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/05\/07\/angels-egg-ova-to-get-4k-remaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel\u2019s Egg OVA To Get 4K Remaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The 1985 OVA <em>Angel&#8217;s Egg<\/em> is getting a 4K remaster to celebrate its upcoming 40th anniversary.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The remaster will be supervised by director<strong> Mamoru Oshii<\/strong> (<em>Ghost in the Shell<\/em>, <em>Patlabor the Movie<\/em>) and has 2025 as its cited completion date.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Angel&#8217;s Egg<\/em>&#8216;s drafts are credited to Oshii and the OVA&#8217;s visual director<strong> Yoshitaka Amano<\/strong> (<em>Vampire Hunter D<\/em> and <em>Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales\u00a0<\/em>original character designer). The 71-minute anime transported viewers to an eerie, fantastical realm where a girl protected a mysterious egg.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mamoru Oshii&#039;s &#039;Angel&#039;s Egg&#039; | Teaser\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3qMwnMtnhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A Blu-ray was released in 2013. The OVA was later screened in the United States by Japan Society NYC in 2022. Another screening was held in 2023 and <a href=\"https:\/\/japansociety.org\/events\/angels-egg-with-yoshitaka-amano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attended by Amano<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Japan Society NYC describes <em>Angel&#8217;s Egg<\/em> as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A groundbreaking collaboration between two anime legends that intertwines Mamoru Oshii\u2019s personal reflections on theology, existentialism and evolution with Yoshitaka Amano\u2019s fantastical ink art style, Angel\u2019s Egg remains a rarely screened and hard-to-find cult classic. Taking place in a seemingly quiescent time, two nameless strangers\u2014a girl bearing a mystical egg and a man with a cruciate cane\u2014journey across a primordial realm of decadent ruins, primitive fish and fossilized relics. An allegorical fantasy enriched by symbolism and biblical allusion, Oshii\u2019s beautifully melancholic OVA ruminates on the tragic underpinnings of existence in a world untouched by God. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Update:<\/strong> Amended section that described Japan Society NYC as screening the Blu-ray version of the OVA.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Script: Mamoru Oshii<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Art director and layout supervisor: the late <strong>Shichiro Kobayashi<\/strong> (<em>Nodame Cantabile<\/em>, <em>Simoun<\/em>, and <em>Berserk<\/em> 1997 art director)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Special effects: <strong>Go Abe<\/strong> (<em>Revolutionary Girl Utena <\/em>and <em>His and Her Circumstances<\/em> co-special effects)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Color coordinator: the late <strong>Michiyo Yasuda<\/strong> (<em>The Wind Rises<\/em> and<em> Princess Mononoke<\/em> color designer)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director of photography: <strong>Juro Sugimura<\/strong> (<em>Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Music director: <strong>Yoshihiro Kanno<br><\/strong>\u2022 Animation production: <strong>Studio Deen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Mako Hyodo<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 The late <strong>Jinpachi Nezu<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Keiichi Noda<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelsEgg_anime\/status\/1788041134712758350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">@AngelsEgg_anime<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1985 OVA Angel&#8217;s Egg is getting a 4K remaster to celebrate its upcoming 40th anniversary.&nbsp; The remaster will be supervised by director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor the Movie) and has 2025 as its cited completion date. Angel&#8217;s Egg&#8216;s drafts are credited to Oshii and the OVA&#8217;s visual director Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":85578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1725,107,1827],"class_list":["post-85575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-original-anime","tag-ova","tag-studio-deen"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/angelsegg.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-mgf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85575"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160426,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575\/revisions\/160426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}