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A couple of months ago we posted about the Evangelion Longinus Spear replica which would be up for auction in Japan later that month. Well reports from ANN say that the thing sold for 13.7 million Yen, which is about $120,000 USD. That’s a lot of cash to blow on a replica, even if the scary lady holding it was included. To whoever bought that, I swear I’ve got a stain on my wall that kinda looks like Rei Ayanami if you look at it at an angle… while drunk, I’m willing to sell it for 10 grand, cheap!

[ANN]

A short clip of Hikaru Utada’s PV for her theme to Rebuild of Evangelion has been released on her official website and interestingly it does not feature Hikaru at all! The PV instead includes a montage of clips from the film itself. This will probably piss off fans who were hoping for a brand new PV which featured Hikaru. I doubt she’s fussed though. She’ll still get a big bag o’ money and a number 1 hit single on the Oricon charts at the end of it all.

The first film in the series Evangelion: 1.0 - You are (not) alone is released September 1, 2007 in Japan. Hit the link below to get a sneak peak at it and to hear Hikaru’s Utada’s theme song if you haven’t heard it already.

[Hikaru Utada's official website]

The cover of the latest issue of the recently launched Rolling Stone Magazine Japan, features Rei Ayanami on the cover and a feature article entitled Does Evangelion Save Us? which makes an argument about the new Evangelion movies being about ecology. There’s also a Rei Ayanami poster inside the mag. Sure beats the hell out of the latest cover of the US version which features the aging rockers from The Police.

[Rolling Stone Japan]

The most recent edition of Newtype Japan announces that Petit Eva: Evangelion @ School, the chibi styled series which places Evangelion characters on a high school setting, will be made into an animation. Adding to the money making strategy of Gainax, this series is sure to generate more money than many small european countries.

Petit Eva takes place on Nerv School where not one, but 3 Rei Ayanami “sisters”, a really small EVA-01 as well as an even more helpless Shinji are under the command of teacher Misato and principal Ikari Gendo (aka most badass principal ever).

The video adaptation will inevitably lead to an onslaught of merchandize based on these characters, which already appear on the Evangelion Doritos we saw a while ago. There is no stopping Gainax now, they have Akihabara under their command.

[Petit Eva Official Site]

We all know the fame anime themed videogames have, as well as videogame themed movies. . . they tend to suck really really bad. We had our taste of sailor moon fighting game, Sailor moon beat’em-ups and Dragon Ball Z fighters on the SNES. They weren’t awesome, and weren’t THAT crappy. Well, in fact they were really crappy compared to the originals (final fight or street fighter), but at least they made an effort.Then, after the anime boom in the U.S. at the beginning of this decade even more anime themed videogames have been around us, now with 3D-ness and cel shading of the newer generations, these games have become somewhat acceptable graphically, but when talking about gameplay and replay value they always keep short.

Now, take the N64 era for example, it was a period of transition between the total 2D(SNES, Genesis) and the total 3D(Dreamcast,Gamecube, PS2, XBOX). In that transition, we got the Sega Saturn, the Playstation, and the N64, with shitty polygons, awful sprites and excessive loading times. . .only on the first two. But it was a generation that HAD to be lived in order to get the awesome graphics of today.

Now, if a N64 game has really made use of the horsepower of a console to the maximum, apart from being an Anime themed game, it’s Evangelion for the N64. See for yourself, you’ve got the angels, the Eva’s and the backgrounds with excellent detail, even voices. . .VOICES. This was something so few N64 games managed to use (due to the lack of space on the cartridge). We even got some anime sequences going on. Oh why wasn’t anime that popular in the U.S. at that time, I’d have loved to play this on my N64.

Here, Humbert21 shows us the intro sequence and the 1st mission of the game.

See!? This is awesome, being a past generation game and all. . .

Behold the power of globalized marketing! The Evangelion Doritos are here! Giving us a reminder that the Live Action Evangelion movie is about to be on the big screen, FritoLay Japan made these pretty nice Eva-themed chips.

And remember kids, the movie debuts the 1st of September! Oh how I’d like to have more anime on my food.

[JapanProbe]

There is a current exhibition running  by Tokyo’s J-art Project completely dedicated to Evangelion inspired art/merchandise. The exhibit features some old classics like the Evangelion angel dishes and utensils to official merchandise from the Evangelion Store. But the pièce de résistance is this you see above, a human sized replica of the spear of longinus. The exhibit ends tomorrow with an auction of the spear no news if the spear will be auctioned along the muscular lady with the mischievous look.

[Shibukei / Via ANN]

I’m a huge Hikaru Utada fan and have a bit of a crush on her. I sometimes have dreams about coming home, taking off my shoes, hearing the joyous cry of ‘okairinasai’ and having Hikaru Utada shuffle up to me and take my coat and shoes. I do have other dreams about her, but I can’t share those. Bottom line? I think she’s awesome. Which is why I am pretty stoked she as a brand new song on the way.

Hikaru’s been on a run with theme songs lately. Delivering us “Sanctuary” and “Passion” for Kingdom Hearts II, “Flavor of life” for the Japanese TV drama Hana yori dango 2, “This is love” for the OVA Freedom project and now “Beautiful world” for the forthcoming Rebuild of Evangelion films! As is usually the case, the song rocks. Hot beat, blips ’n whizzes going off all over the place and warblicious vocals make it a winner.

I have the full song, but I can’t give you that! :P So instead I’ll leave you with a nice little snippet. Great song. I heart it plenty.

Hikaru Utada - Beautiful world

Fresh off the tubes comes this shaky and really low-fi video of an airing of a trailer for ReBuild of Evangelion. That’s Hikaru Utada singing a new version of Fly Me to the Moon, she will also be lending her voice to other tracks of the new Evangelion movies.

As shitty as the quality is, seeing some original Evangelion content in so many years makes it worth it.

Evangelion paraphernalia never ceases to amaze me, a while ago we had the bike, today we have these, the official Evangelion Headphones. This pretty puppies are a collaboration between Chara-Ani (who make all kinds of Otaku stuff) and Audio-Technica, which apparently are “pretty damn good” from an audiophile point of view.

They also come in the official evangelion colors of purple, green and orange, which just happen to be the same as our colors! We should buy a whole lot of evangelion merchandise, rebrand it and sell it as official Dark Diamond merchandise. We’d make a killing, and frankly we need the money, the Champagne and private jets dont pay for themselves.

Thanks Django

[Akihabara News]

Behold! Otaku Music Bit has arrived once again to save you from yourselves. This weekend we have some music with good singing for a change. Its Youko Takahashi singing Evangelion’s OP Cruel Angel’s Thesis. Amazingly her voice sounds better in this live version than the processed studio recording! It also has a bass solo, which frankly puts the cherry on top of this awesome performance.

Also, she must have some sort of super human power to sing such an otaku song and behave normaly on stage, no cosplay ladies and gents! Bravo!

I’m too cold to think up something witty to say…

Have some Rei and a little bit of Kaworu

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Reports have been flying around that the material for the first movie in the Rebirth of Evangelion series has been finished. The series producer Toshimichi Ootsuki says these new movies will mostly deal with Rei and Kaworu, with the first film focusing on a school setting previous to the first angel attacks of the TV series.

So yeah, expect less emo Shinji and more metrosexua….who am I kidding, more awkwardly flamboyant Kaworu.

[TheOtaku]

About a month ago we had rumors that a new Evangelion project, called Khara, was brewing. And now the cover’s been blown! The October issue of Newtype (Japan) 4 new Evangelion movies are already in the works. The four films fit the series as a prequel, a mid-series movie a sequel and a final one.

The prequel is already in production and set for release in summer 2007. The rest of the movies are set during the same time frame as the series, although its mentioned that you wont need to know anything about Evangelion to understand them. Which is kind of unsettling, it might even clue on the fact that it does not revolve around the classic characters.

Hideaki Anno will write the first movie and direct the entire project. No info was given as to who will write the rest of the films. And what was that Khara project after all? Khara is the name of the new studio working along Gainax for this project.

So much for ‘The end of Evangelion’. I foresee many more years of ‘teh rei’ and emo Shinji jokes, blessed be the internets.

[ANN]