Japanese, PS1, serif fonts, boxes around things, obsession with German, jungle music, multiple mismatched typefaces, saturated colors, weird bits of text?
I think of FF7 as having a similar vibe
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/images/f/fc/Final_Fantasy_VII_-PS1-_Manual.pdf
Wipeout XL is a close cousin but it’s more of a sans serif bleeding edge cyberfuture thing with a more slickly produced Prodigy feel
That aesthetic was real. It’s what the kids imagined the cyberfuture would be like, a bit grungy and German lol
But I think only the Japanese used German a lot. They’ve been doing that probably before the 90s and are probably still in love with it. If memory serves correctly they got German words right most of the time whereas American Nazi shooters (the only time Americans ever use German is in that context whereas with the Japanese you’ve got anime series about a German surgeon in the black forest or whatever, too) butchered the language most of the time. That only got rectified with nu-Wolf.
that kind of type face always has an AWUNGH AWUNGH AWUNGH AWUNGH alarm and an anime apocalypse attached to it
mid 90s anime
I’m sure Evangelion was riffing on a collection on precedents but it’s going to be the source for summat like Einhander I think
i’d like to think this is what the rave flyers looked like while the graphic designers for these games were in art school
back when i was doing graphics in this aesthetic, it was just called “grunge”.
I agree that Evangelion probably influenced that german cyberpunk-ish future aesthetic. Especially the serif text arranged into boxes or inside of colored boxes. This French twitter post covers some of Evangelion’s typography (it’s all mostly Fontworks’ Matisse, if you want to emulate that style yourself; though, if you want more of that ghetto PSX look, just use roman characters with any of the fonts that are installed for Asian character display, their serifs are usually thin and goofy-looking and their sans-serifs all have fucked up kerning and shit (so do the serifs, but sometimes it’s not as bad), so you really get that PSX-era look).
I never watched Evangelion so I guess it turned out I asked a stupid question.
But where did Evangelion get it from??
This is like in the middle of the transition from the “industrial” look of Tool and NIN albums to what ended up being nu-metal. Seven is the movie that owns this look imo. I don’t associate it with videogames so much but now I think about it there was definitely some kind of kinship with Silent Hill, Manhunt…
Ersatzpunk
I also never watched Evangelion but I think they came up with it
I feel like there’s some proto-precedents of the Evangelion GUI style in Gunbuster. I’m not sure who at Gainax was responsible for these lovely designs, and I’m not sure what their influences were, but they’re pretty rad and distinctive.
I call it cool!
srlsy though, it probably comes down to a phase where people were into german (and tbh, also greek myths, since Selene, Helios and Eos are snatched from there) and willing to experiment with the media, i think?
The staff listing for Evangelion is pretty huge, and Gunbuster’s is a bit large, too, so it’s hard to see at a glimpse who bleeds over from that into Evangelion that would’ve had a direct influence, but I’m guessing it was storyboard artists in conjunction possibly with title designers. Some of it gives off a similar (but not exact) vibe you might see in advertisements for electronics, or packaging for VHS and cassette tapes in the mid to late 80s.
i was looking for more pictures and i found a site that has nothing you’re looking for BUT it has UIs of different movies and games, and is REALLY well organized by category
but they need MORE
https://ilikeinterfaces.com/tag/evangelion-1-11-you-are-not-alone/
https://ilikeinterfaces.com/?s=hacking
Of course, this is actually the good thing about Evangelion too
I propose we call the aesthetic genre “j-cyber”, since it’s thoroughly Japanese and an extension of the cyberpunk aesthetic. Came out of the 80s and the widespread consumer electronics revolution, as people combined the classic computer terminal look, industrial design, and military-style HUDs.
It definitely didn’t originate from Evangelion, because you can see echoes of the style in movies like Cyber-City Oedo, Patlabor, and Neo-Tokyo, all of which predate Evangelion.
Compare the interfaces previously with this fighter HUD
CARI apparently classifies it as “pacific-wave early cyberpunk”
