Coinciding with Madman’s Australian DVD and Blu-ray release of Evangelion 2.22: You Can (not) Advance, Madman have released a podcast interview with Tiffany Grant, Mike McFarland and Matt Greenfield who are in the country for the upcoming Supanova Pop Culture Expo. The three talk about their experiences with Evangelion, the new movies, and the dubbing process in the U.S.
Anime News Network has stated that a new Evangelion game for the PSP is in the works.
Sound Impact Cover.
Evangelion: Sound Impact, a music-rhythm based game, will be released in Japan on September 29th and come in three different packages. The video game will feature music from the Rebuild of Evangelion (New Movie Edition) film teratology, remixed by Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka. The game is being produced by Goichi “Suda51″ Suda, director of Killer7 and No More Heroes.
Nothing new in the Evangelion front since the discovery that Evangelion: 3.0/Q may be further behind schedule than most anticipated as well as Hideaki Anno telling fans to “please be patient”. So there’s going to be a short update about our friends over at GAINAX.
Their new upcoming show this July Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian (ダンタリアンの書架) released a promotional video, giving us a first look at the series.
The premise revolves around Hugh Anthony Disward, who finds a library in the mansion he has inherited, and a girl Dalian who has access to the prohibited books of the demons. It is directed by Yutaka Uemura, who has previously worked with Mahoromatic and Gurren Lagann, and is expected to be 13 episodes. This fantasy title contrasts pretty heavily with GAINAX’s previous show, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Here’s hoping for some upcoming news about Evangelion.
Not much in the line of news here, but a nice collection of pictures. Most of this stuff can be seen over at the Radio EVA website, but the Revelations/ store in the Harajuku district of Tokyo (a large shopping district often referred to as the fashion capital of the world) has put up a blog to show pictures of the store. You can also buy stuff from their website.
A lot of the merchandise seem like typical Radio EVA stuff: bags, shoes, clothing that look fairly normal but have Evangelion related imagery embedded somewhere in them. Other stuff is more blatant. The “Revelations/” store in Harajuku does collaborative work with studios and artists, in an attempt to fuse everyday clothes with subcultures, in this case, Evangelion.
A play on "The Beatles"
No Eva Store would be complete without a life-sized Rei Ayanami
Good news for all you Kaworu fan boys and girls out there, Kotobukiya is adding to their 1/6 scale Pilot+Eva series with a Kaworu, the first male pilot to appear. Kaworu is wearing his redesigned Rebuild plugsuit, and sits atop a stone bust of the Mark 6 Evangelion, which appears in Evangelion 2.0: You Can (not) Advance.
The series so far has included Rei atop Unit-00, Asuka atop Unit-02, and Mari wearing her pink plugsuit atop Beast mode Unit-02. There has also been a 1/6 scale Misato released, but it is unclear whether or not this figure is included in the same series.
The Kaworu figure is set for release in October this year, and will retail for approximately ¥6,800.
The Anime Boston schedule has a screening for Evangelion 2.22, You Can (Not) Advance, on Saturday, April 23rd at 12:15pm in the Hynes Convention Center, Video 210 HD Room. The screening will be followed by a panel with guests of honor and English cast Spike Spencer (Shinji Ikari), Brina Palencia (Rei Ayanami), Trina Nishimura (Mari Makinami Illustrious), and J. Michael Tatum (Ryoji Kaji) at 3:00pm in room #302/304 and an autograph session in room #308 starting at 4:30pm. There will also be many other Evangelion related panels including a couple hosted by The Eva Monkey. For more info about Anime Boston, the events and panels, and directions, check out their website.
At the Evastore Evangelion Evolution page, there’s a section at the bottom showing a prototype version of Evangelion Mark 6, the Eva Unit that Kaworu used at the end of the Evangelion 2.0 movie. It will have a release date somewhere during the summer of 2011. Ironically, these images may give us a better glimpse into what Mark 6 looks like in general than what we saw at the end of 2.0 and the 3.0 preview.
Madman have finally announced the official release date for their release of Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance on DVD and Blu-ray.
The film will be available on 15th of June, and will be filled with extras including;
Blu-ray:
Audio Commentary
“Rebuild of Evangelion 2.02” – Making of feature
Storyboard
Deleted scenes
Original Theatrical trailers and commercials
16 Page Booklet
DVD:
Rebuild of EVANGELION 2.02 “I Would Give You Anything”
Teaser trailer
Train Channel spot
Promotion reel and TV spots
Art booklet
Along with this announcement, Madman have released an interview with Tiffany Grant, the English voice actor for Asuka, that was filmed back in 2010 when she was in the country for SMASH con in Sydney.
Full details on both releases and the interview can be found on Madman’s website.
Studio Khara tweeted today that Hideaki Anno will co-produce a film directed by Katsuyuki Hirano called Kantoku Shikkaku with Koinobori Pictures. The film will open this September 3rd in Japan. According to Anime New Network, the film will feature the late actress Yumika Hayashi who died in 2005.
The newest attraction is the Evangelion Unit-02 bust (though it’s actually more just the head). And Min Nano Evafan visited “Evangelion: WORLD” and posted a ton of pictures, and a short youtube video of Nerv’s hallways. There seemed to be a lot of mock-ups of scenes from Evangelion: 2.0 with cardboard cut-outs of the characters, including the Rei and Asuka in the elevator and Kaji buying Shinji a drink (but without Shinji, and he buys UCC Coffee). Although Gendo’s office looks a bit cheap, especially the desk, the bust of Eva-02 looks pretty awesome.
The hallways of Nerv, Eva-01. “Eva Museum”, the peep holes are kind of interesting, plus a series of pictures showing the activation of Eva-01 using the Dummy Plug with info from the monitors.
Coinciding with Madman’s Australian DVD and Blu-ray release of Evangelion 2.22: You Can (not) Advance, Madman have released a podcast interview with Tiffany Grant, Mike McFarland and Matt Greenfield who are in the country for the upcoming Supanova Pop Culture Expo. The three talk about their experiences with Evangelion, the new movies, and the dubbing process in the U.S.
