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SH-06D Nerv Phone Promo Plus Review

Ornette — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:07:27 +0000

NTT Docomo released a promotional video (strangely, in English, with a British accent?) of their new SH-06D Nerv smart phone. We previously made a post with pictures of a mock-up of the phone but these videos look like the working UI. As unusably cluttered as it appears, the 3D-ish UI still looks really awesome. This promo tells about the creation of the phone within the story of Evangelion.

DAIGO Eva report is also doing a 5 segment review of the phone, but it’s in Japanese. Though around the 3:40 mark, you can him play around with what looks like a working SH-06D. This is the first of five.

Source: Official SH-06D Video page

Update:
The Verge did a review of the phone:

Read the rest of the review at The Verge

A Look at Docomo’s new Evangelion SH-06D NERV Smart Phone

Ornette — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:34:38 +0000

In the middle of March, Evangelion and Docomo announced that they’d release a new Evangelion themed phone, similar to the SH-06A Nerv phones that they released almost 3 years ago to coincide with the release of Evangelion 2.0 where the phone is featured within the movie. The SH-06D is also made by Sharp, but unlike the previous model, is a touchpad smartphone that will run Android (2.3 Gingerbread). It also boasts a 4.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display that supports HD (720 x 1280 pixels) resolution and 16 million colors. The phones will come pre-loaded with some Evangelion apps and a theme designed by Studio Khara.

The phone itself is on display at the NOTTV booth at the Anime Expo 2012 (held at Makuhari Messe in Japan) this weekend and some first look pictures have been snapped of it.

The NOTTV Booth at Anime Expo 2012

The front face of the impressive (and very busy looking mock-up screen) SH-06D

The back of the SH-06D

With a "SH06D NERV" label on its side

"NERV ONLY" and "MAGI SYSTEM"

All photos from Min nano Evafan, on Twitter

Update:

IT Media uploaded a youtube video and provided some more pictures:

Arianne releases 2 new versions of Komm Susser Todd

Ornette — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:07:16 +0000

Back in January, Arianne, the artist who sang the song Komm Susser Todd that played during the start of 3rd Impact in the movie, The End of Evangelion, announced on her Facebook page that she would be working on new versions of the song, along with a video. Around the 20th or so of March, she posted that the song and video are done recording and are in post-production. You can see some of the photos in the related forum thread.

There’s a site called Komm Susser Tod 2012 that was put up (currently just a place holder) in mid-March but you can hear and buy the 2 versions on Smash My Box. There’s a 7 minute long version plus a shorter dubstepped version. You can also here other recordings by Arianne at that site.

Evangelion 3.0 Distributed by T-Joy

Ornette — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:35:17 +0000

According to Anime Anime, the next Evangelion film will be distributed (in Japan) by T-Joy instead of KlockWorx, who distributed 1.0 and 2.0 among many other anime titles. T-Joy announced on the 6th that they’d distribute Evangelion 3.0 along with the new 009 Re:Cyborg movie, Tiger & Bunny, The Beginning movie, and Houkago Midnighters to be amongst their first jump into anime. Khara chose to go with T-Joy because they’re a larger distributor. T-Joy was established in 2000 in collaboration with Toei Company and its group companies. They also plan and operate cinema complexes in and around Tokyo as well as a distributor of programs via satelite.

Evangelion 3.0 Currently in Dubbing?

Ornette — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:38:49 +0000

土曜にエヴァのアフレコでした。(でも多分あとまだ、何日かアフレコあると思うけど）で、劇場版エヴァって、声かれちゃうんだけど、やっぱり最後の最後でかれちゃったばい。ばってん回復はいつも、2週間はかかるんだけど、今回はなんと！昨日のオフで回復ちまちた(^-^)/

— 宮村優子 (@386miyamura) February 27, 2012

This tweet from Yuko Miyamura, Asuka’s voice actress, seems to indicate that she was doing dubbing for the new movie (3.0? Final?) last Saturday, February 25th. Don’t know a lot about the production timeline of the last two movies or whether this is supposed to be good news (production is moving forward) or bad news (maybe they won’t finish 3.0 by fall 2012), but there hasn’t been much in the form of updates in the recent months so it’s good to at least hear something about it.

Sadamoto’s Manga at final Volume, # 13 (Updated)

SailorStarDust — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:52:43 +0000

According to Minna no Eva Fan and Crunchy Roll, Sadamoto’s Manga has finally reached Volume 13, which will be the last volume in the Manga series (previously revealed by Sadamoto to be the final volume). As of this writing, Stages 84 through 90 (7 Stages) of Volume 13 have been printed in the seinen manga magazine Young Ace.

UPDATE: Volume 13 is planned to be released in Japan this year. Discussion with MinnaNoEva Fan Blog revealed that because of the small number of pages in Stage 90, it’s possible (but still pending) if Volume 13 will be the conclusion of the manga. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

Evangelion 3.0/Q Poster on Facebook

Ornette — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:45 +0000

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

Evangelion 3.0 International title revealed, Eva Final release date revealed

SailorStarDust — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:30:34 +0000

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.

Evangelion VTOL model by Kotobukiya

Ornette — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:37:31 +0000

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.

Evangelion themed intros to NTV’s “Friday Road Show”

Ornette — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:18:36 +0000

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”.

More Evangelion Race Queens: Shinji and Kaworu

Fazmotron — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:23:23 +0000

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.

Evangelion T-Shirts/Phone Cases from Groundworks

Ornette — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:12:36 +0000

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 graffiti

Ornette — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:15:57 +0000

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.

Evangelion Browser Game for 2012

Ornette — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:59:15 +0000

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

Evangelion Q: Autumn 2012

Ornette — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:03:18 +0000

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.