History Trivia / AngelsEgg

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* CreatorKiller: Oshii admits that because this film bombed at the box office, he couldn't get any animation work for the next four years until he revived his career with ''Franchise/Patlabor''.

* CreatorKiller: Oshii admits that because this film bombed at the box office, he couldn't get any animation work for the next four years until he revived his career with ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''.

* ShrugOfGod: Oshii says he himself doesn't know what the anime means.

** The Painter from the ''Ashes of Ariandel'' expansion for ''''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' bears a striking resemblance to the female protagonist; a little girl with extremely long white hair who lives by herself in a secluded, decaying, gothic landscape.

** Princess Filianore from ''The Ringed City'' expansion for ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' is clearly inspired by the female protagonist of this film; she's a MysteriousWaif with RapunzelHair who cradles a mysterious broken egg in her sleep. When the player touches the egg it crumbles completely into dust and causes the titular city to instantly decay to ruins, mirroring the ending of this film.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The earliest release of the film in English was in the form of ''Film/InTheAftermathAngelsNeverSleep'', which is more or less a different film entirely, roughly half of which made up of ''Angel's Egg'' footage, and the other half was newly-produced, ''live-action'' footage, which attempted to weld a more conventional post-apocalyptic story onto the very enigmatic plot of the original.

* CreatorKiller / DoingItForTheArt: Oshii admits that because this film bombed at the box office, he couldn't get any animation work for the next four years until he revived his career with ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The earliest release of the film in English was in the form of Film/InTheAftermathAngelsNeverSleep, which is more or less a different film entirely, roughly half of which made up of ''Angel's Egg'' footage, and the other half was newly-produced, ''live-action'' footage, which attempted to weld a more conventional post-apocalyptic story onto the very enigmatic plot of the original.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The earliest release of the film in English was in the form of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206827/ In the Aftermath]]'', which is more or less a different film entirely, roughly half of which made up of ''Angel's Egg'' footage, and the other half was newly-produced, ''live-action'' footage, which attempted to weld a more conventional post-apocalyptic story onto the very enigmatic plot of the original.

* ReferencedBy: ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII: The Ringed City'' is heavily inspired by the plot of the movie, bordering on a WholePlotReference: At the end of the world (the Ringed City), a woman (Filianore) clutches an egg, intent on protecting it forever, until a careless warrior (the Unkindled Ash) comes and destroys it.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The earliest release of the film in English was in the form of ''In the Aftermath'', which is more or less a different film entirely, roughly half of which was made up of ''Angel's Egg'' footage and the other half of which was newly-produced, ''live-action'' footage, which attempted to weld a more conventional post-apocalyptic story onto the very enigmatic plot of the original.

* CreatorKiller: See DoingItForTheArt.
* DoingItForTheArt: Oshii admits that because this film bombed at the box office, he couldn't get any animation work for the next four years until he revived his career with ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''.

* DoingItForTheArt: Oshii admits that because this film bombed at the box office, he couldn't get any animation work for the next four years until he revived his career with ''{{Patlabor}}''.