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Real-life Evangelion apartment in Japan is ultra-cheap, ultra-anime【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 17, 2019 - Tweet
Floor plan and renter regulations allow you to accurately recreate Shinji’s lifestyle.
- Japan
- (anime • apartments • awesome • cool • crazy • Evangelion • Gunma • Living in Japan • otaku • weird)
Evangelion bar in Tokyo: You mustn’t run away from the awesome anime food at this sakaba
- Oona McGee
May 14, 2019
We go on a mission to eat and drink at Nerv headquarters.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anime • bars • Evangelion • food • food and drink • izakaya • restaurants • sakaba • themed restaurants • Tokyo)
Evangelion Bar reopens in Tokyo for its second impact of drinking and dining
- Casey Baseel
Apr 8, 2019
Newly added “Angel Hour” service gets you a discount on drinks such as L.C.L. and the Ayanam Rei Soda cocktail.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anime • bars • COK • drinks • Evangelion • Evangelion Bar • food • Ikebukuro • izakaya • restaurants • themed restaurants • Tokyo)
New Evangelion anime movie’s voice recording officially starts, fans remain patiently ecstatic
- Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2019
Photo of creator Hideaki Anno’s personal script is a sign that the long-awaited film is finally moving towards completion.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion)
Anime cosplayer burglar arrested in Japan, can’t stop dressing up/stealing
- Casey Baseel
Mar 15, 2019
”Get in the damn prison cell, Shinji!”
- Japan
- (anime • burglary • COK • cosplay • crazy • crime • Evangelion • Fukuoka • Spider-Man • weird)
Evangelion fans brace for another release delay as creator is rumored to be making Ultraman movie
- Casey Baseel
Mar 7, 2019
Would chance to direct boyhood favorite franchise convince Hideaki Anno to push back the release of his seven-years-in-the-making Evangelion finale?
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion • tokusatsu • Ultraman)
Evangelion Store popularity contest reveals surprising results for a former fan favorite
- Shannon McNaught
Feb 13, 2019
When the popularity of an Evangelion pilot falls, apparently it falls fast.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Evangelion Store • poll • Rebuild of Evangelion • Rei Ayanami)
Photographic evidence that the fourth and final new Evangelion anime movie has started production
- Casey Baseel
Feb 1, 2019
Director and voice cast of groundbreaking, long-stalled anime franchise gather for formal ceremony.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • Megumi Hayashibara • Megumi Ogata • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion • voice actors • voice actresses)
Evangelion returns to legal English-language distribution with Netflix streaming deal【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2018
Get in the damn streaming service, Shinji.
- Japan, USA
- (anime • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • Netflix • video)
Evangelion Bar opening in Tokyo to soothe the rattled nerves of fans of the traumatizing anime
- Casey Baseel
Nov 10, 2018
You’ll feel better after downing a few Rei cocktails and eating rampaging Angel Sachiel.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anime • bars • Evangelion • food • izakaya • restaurants • themed restaurants • Tokyo)
Godzilla will fight Evangelion this summer at Universal Studios Japan
- Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2018
Get in the damn crossover, Shinji!
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • anime • cool • Evangelion • Godzilla • Hideaki Anno • kaiju • Universal Cool Japan • Universal Studios Japan • USJ)
Should the new Japanese national anthem be an anime song?
- Richard Simmonds
Aug 21, 2018
Japanese anime fans list their contenders for a modern-day Japanese national anthem.
- Japan
- (air • anime • anison • Evangelion • GochiUsa • kimigayo • manga • music • national anthem)
New Evangelion anime movie teaser trailer appears after six years of waiting【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 28, 2018
Creators throw patient fans a jaw-droppingly gorgeous bone.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Evangelion 4.0 • Hideaki Anno • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion • Studio Khara • video)
Japan’s record-setting heat wave is hot enough to melt anime figure ankles
- Casey Baseel
Jul 24, 2018
Summer’s fury has no mercy for this fan’s Evangelion figure.
After six years of waiting, fourth Evangelion Rebuild movie finally gets an official release year
- Casey Baseel
Jul 20, 2018
We can (hardly) believe it, but the long-awaited anime is finally going to get in the damn theater!
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion)
Legendary anime Evangelion’s creator and mecha appear in ad for Sapporo Beer【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 30, 2018
Hideaki Anno explains his philosophy of personal improvement while the giant robot from his signature series makes a cameo.
- Japan
- (ads • alcohol • anime • beer • drinks • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • Sapporo Beer • video)
Furious woman berates men on women-only Tokyo train with spot-on anime girl voice【Video】
- Casey Baseel
May 10, 2018
Tongue-lashing has fans of Idolmaster, Evangelion franchises thinking they’ve heard that voice before.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • The Idolmaster • trains • video • voice actors • voice actresses • women-only trains)
Evangelion director calls Hayao Miyazaki “geezer” in anime commentary, says he broke his Walkman
- Casey Baseel
May 10, 2018
Hideaki Anno recalls working on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with the Studio Ghibli legend.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • funny • Hayao Miyazaki • Hideaki Anno • movies • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • Studio Ghibli)
Japan Railway Company to end awesome Evangelion Shinkansen service soon, makes us all sad
- Koh Ruide
Jan 23, 2018
With only a few months left, now’s your last chance to ride the massively popular bullet train that travels as fast as Eva Unit-01.
Evangelion and pizza: The weird freeze-frame sight gags of Shin Godzilla
- Casey Baseel
Nov 14, 2017
Shin Godzilla is the heaviest kaiju movie in years, but there are still laughs to be found if you know where to look.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • funny • Godzilla • Hideaki Anno • movies • Shin Godzilla)
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