“Whoooah!” Any Evangelion fans worth their salt will have to visit this particular attraction in Japan someday, as Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland amusement park had recently announced that a new pavilion that’s is dedicated entirely to Evangelion will be opened this 23rd July. The pavilion will house the world’s first real-life recreation of the scene where Shinji Ikari [...] Related posts:Evangelion Campaigns Cancelled Due To Overwhelming Response Life-Sized Gundam To Move To Shizuoka Now Evangelion Comes In A Spandex Bike Shorts Variety Too
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Eva Extra, a free publication from Studio Khara (although 03 was sold in theatres), will have a seventh issue released on May 26th, 2010, which looks to be released in conjunction with the release of Evangelion 2.22 (DVD and BluRay). It will be in A5 format with 24 pages, full color, contains some illustrations by [...]
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After the life-size Gundam and Kobe’s Tetsujin 28-go, Japan is planning to create another life-size mecha replica. This time round it will be a life-size bust of the Eva-01 Unit from the anime Evangelion. The bust ...
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The June 2010 issue of NewType features Mari Illustruous Makinami in her plugsuit on the cover and comes with a set of “Weiß Schwarz” cards and a deck of Evangelion playing cards that feature images from the new films. There’s also an interview with Maaya Sakamoto, Mari’s voice actress, and Kazuya Tsurumaki. “Weiß Schwarz” is a [...]
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To celebrate the release of the Blu-Ray and DVD of Evangelion 2.0, the special time-limited EVA cafe will be reopening from 14 May 2010 till 6 Jun 2010. The participating meido cafes are pasela cafe, curemaid cafe, Wonder ...
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The Noguchi version screening of 2.22 occurred in Hakone yesterday, and one of the Evangelion blogs discussed the new additions to the film. Spoilers in the rest of this post! The first big addition involves a discussion between Shinji, Toji, and Kensuke when Kaji arrives to Japan. The second addition involves the 3 pilots (Asuka, Shinji, and [...]
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Yesterday we saw two interesting Evangelion Pachinko CM, well here’s another two new commercials and they both have emotional scripts about how the protagonists are fighting bravely. Which CM do you prefer, the one with the ...
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Amie Grand is going to release the Ayanami Rei ( 綾波レイ ) Wet in August ( 八月の濡れた ) 1/6 polystone GK from the anime “Neon Genesis Evangelion” ( 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン ). Will be released in July 2010. Around 210mm tall, 13,800 yen.Kit will be prepainted & completed. It says this is “Ayanami Rei [...]
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Japan has many pachinko palour that are themed after anime/games/movies (e.g. Onimusha Pachinko, Matrix Pachinko). Now here the commercial of the latest Evangelion Pachinko. I particularly loved the second CM whereby the old man was talking so passionately ...
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The Nikkan Sports newspaper reports on Tuesday that over 800,000 copies of the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) film have been pre-ordered. The film’s Japanese home video distributor King Records will ship its release on May 26. According to King Records, Evangelion: 2.22’s 800,000 pre-orders [...]
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Looks like Evangelion: 2.22 is going to be this years top selling anime film; The Nikkan Sports newspaper reports on Tuesday that over 800,000 copies of the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Evangelion: 2.22 You Can ...
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I thought it was pretty cool that they even went as far as wearing plug-suits,  now thats accurate cosplay; The official website of the Evangelion anime franchise has posted images from the first day of racing ...
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It seems like more anime franchise are using racing as a marketing tool. The official website of the Rebuild of Evangelion series just posted images of the debut of Run’a Entertainment’s “Evangelion RT-01 apr Corolla” ...
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Not only have the Evangelion team entered an Eva-01 inspired Toyota Corolla Axio into the Super GT300-class grand touring championship series, but they have also designed racing suits to resemble Shinji’s plug suit.  Similarly, the models accompanying the team are wearing uniforms inspired by Asuka and Rei’s plug suits. The team entered this weekend at Fuji [...]
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The Evangelion pachislo* game “Locus of the Soul” will be released for both the PSP and the DS on 6/03/2010 *Pachislo is essentially pachinko with additional slot machine elements The game includes <a href=”http://www.evageeks.org/2010/01/evangelion-pachinko-exhibit-in-tokyo/”>elements from Rebuild of Evangelion</a> and variations from the canon narrative as significant as <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqvFhGbC3ZU”>Kaworu battling Ramiel.</a> (discussed <a href=”http://forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?t=5952″>here</a>) <a href=”http://www.evastore.jp/index.cgi?rm=detail&id=3271&genre=&page=&key=&8%A1%E04=2%A1%DE0″>Evangelion: Locus of [...]
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Some images of the new BD/DVD release of Evangelion 2.22, You can (not) advance, have popped up. It looks to be near identical to the first limited edition release of Evangelion 1.01, with a folding disc case that comes with a booklet and filmstrip that all fits into a box. However, unlike the 1.01 Limited [...]
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One of the things I’ve enjoyed about Evangelion as I’ve been watching it is that Eva kids have to defeat each angel on a different plane. Sometimes it’s good ol’fashioned fisticuffs, sometimes it’s matter of getting some cold matter into a volcano, sometimes it’s even about typing faster than a computer virus. I haven’t finished watching the series, so there are still a few more angels to go, from my perspective, but I’d be absolutely tickled if Shinji and his pals ever had to defeat an angel through a Nascar race.   I bring that up because is Japanese Super GT300 Toyota Cororlla Axio team is thinking along a similar, if not identical, wavelength. They’re hoping to drum up sponsorship from NGE's wide fanbase by giving their car an EVA 001 makeover. Look to the right and you might recognize that purple and green color scheme from a certain series about bio-mechanoid mecha and their emotionally-disturbed teenage pilots. The picture comes from Jalopink and they’ve got more information about how, if you so choose to, you can help these good ol’ boys from Japan successfully combine their love of fast cars and twisted mecha through your sponsorship. -- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. Pre-order the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover now on Amazon.com.
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Yamato is going to release the Ayanami Rei ( 綾波レイ ) Ver.2 non-scale PVC figure illustrated by Shunya Yamashita from the from the anime “Neon Genesis Evangelion” ( 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン ). Will be released in September 2010. Around 250mm tall, 8,800 yen. I had a feeling that Yamato will re-release the Shunya [...]
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 I don't usually fuss around with StumbleUpon much, but as I was poking around the site because I noticed we were getting some traffic from there (hi, StumbleUponers! Hope you stick around), I "stumbled" upon this video. It's not brand new (from 2008, it would seem), but I'd never seen it, so as always, I figure it'll probably be new to some of you too.  <object width="640px" height="513px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0dsrsV6jwF4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0dsrsV6jwF4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="513px" wmode="transparent"></embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object>   Most awesome. The remix of the song is pretty spiffy too, I hadn't heard it before. GOOD TIMES ALL AROUND. Apparently the group is called TEAM BLACK STARZ featuring G-Splash, but I couldn't find much else about them except that they do a lot of goofy dance stuff-- some of it anime related, mostly not. Here, have some more videos.   <object width="640px" height="513px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5tcIU6V6cF0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5tcIU6V6cF0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="513px" wmode="transparent"></embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object>From the headline I gather this one is Dragon Ball related although I don't recognize the song myself.    <object width="640px" height="513px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpecNMl1g14&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpecNMl1g14&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640px" height="513px" wmode="transparent"></embed></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object>MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! Nice stuff, eh?    
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Last Sunday, I shared with you folks on the Evangelion Tokyo-3 Lawson convenience store that was opened in Hakone. Thanks to reader kiddai for pointing out that the conbini was forced to shut down only ...
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