A quick update for those who didn’t see khara‘s or our tweets late last night, there’s an official Evangelion Facebook page that contains a movie poster for 3.0/Q in the spirit of the previous 2 posters for 2.0 and 1.0. It also reveals that the color theme will by a cyanish blue where 2.0 was orange and 1.0 was red.

Also, the page links to the updated Evangelion website that has a similar image of the poster with navigational tabs at the bottom that takes you to info about each of the movies. The 3.0 tab takes you to a page where they announce that on January 18th, their official facebook page was launched. The FINAL tab is white, possibly indicating that the color theme for the final movie, due in 2013, will be white.

• Official Evangelion Facebook page
• Updated Evangelion website

The official Evangelion website http://www.evangelion.co.jp/ was updated for New Years with new information: The International title for Evangelion Q (to be released in Fall 2012)  is You Can (Not) Redo. Evangelion ? was also revealed to be released in 2013.

Kotobuyika is releasing a 1/100 scale “NERV Headquarters Commander 1” VTOL aircraft as seen in the new Evangelion movies. It’s about 19cm long and based on the pictures, it looks fairly detailed. Release date is set for April and will run 4725 yen (including tax).

There’s more pictures at the Evangelion VTOL page at Kotobukiya’s website.

Not news but this is a neat little video found on the internet.

Japan’s NTV has a weekend movie slot called “Friday Road Show” (金曜ロードショー) that usually have different animated intro/openings. Here is one featuring the Angels from the new Evangelion movies (and Rei). On August 26, the Friday Road Show broadcasted a TV version of Evangelion 2.0 as well as 1.01 back in 2009.

Here’s the one from July 2009, the 1.01 broadcast’s intro:

Other (non-Evangelion related) openings from the “Friday Road Show”.

Two more Evangelion themed Race Queens have appeared on the scene of the Evangelion themed racing team at the Autobacs Super GT, this time as Shinji and Kaworu. The pair are portrayed by female models, wearing the similar Rebuild style Race Queen plugsuit outfits that we have seen previously. More pictures of the two, as well as a Rei Race Queen, and pictures of the actual race car in action, can be found here.

The Eva Custom site which sells customizable Evangelion shirts and mobile phone cases released a new series based on images from the Groundworks art books for the new movies.

See all of the items and customize at the Eva Custom site.

GAINAX, 1999 and 2011

The Yaraon blog over at fc2 posted a bunch of pictures of the graffiti on the walls of the old GAINAX office. The above picture of the front of GAIXAX was probably taken from here.

Looks like inside a stairwell

Not all are on walls, also some "Star Driver" there

Ha, poor Yoshika Miyafuji

Go here to see all the pictures.

It’s been slow on the news front so may as well make a posting about this.

Game developer Marvelous AQL announced today that it will make a browser-based Evangelion game inspired by the new series of movies. The game’s tentative title is Browser Evangelion Shin Gekijouban but no other information was given, although it’s expected to be free to play. The developer, Marvelous AQL, has only been around for 5 days, forming on October 1st from a merge of media production company Marvelous Entertainment, the game developer AQ Interactive, and the mobile app developer Liveware (thus forming “Marvelous AQL”).

• Inside Games (Japanese)
• Anime News Network

So the TV edition of 2.0 aired, for those who caught it on KeyHole TV or something similar, we were treated to a brand new preview for Q. We saw Asuka (with eyepatch) flying around in her Evangelion Unit-02. But best of all, the announcement that Q will be next fall, 2012. Here’s some screenshots of the preview:

Once again: Tentative date, Evangelion 3.0, Autumn 2012

Update: Here’s the preview up on youtube.
Update 2: Aaaaaand, youtube took down the previews. Check the forum thread if you want to see it.

VIZ Media, the licensor and North American publisher of Sadamoto’s Neon Genesis Evangelion Manga, will be releasing stages (chapters) of the manga in digital format on their website and manga app for iOS (iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone) for $0.99 a stage, one stage a week. The first stage, “Angel Attack”, is free as a preview and the 2nd stage, “Reunion”, is the release for this week.

VIZ has been doing digital releases on many of their manga properties since they’ve released their manga reading app for iOS last November, this is the first digital release for the Evangelion manga by VIZ. Though most of their digital releases occur monthly and by volume, Evangelion’s is weekly by stages.

• via Crunchy Roll
• VIZ Manga: Evangelion online
• VIZ Manga app