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
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”).
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.
A legal dispute has erupted between the North American anime distribution company previously responsible for the release and distribution of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series in the US, ADV, and the Japanese production company responsible for the creation of Evangelion, Gainax, over the rights of any live action Evangelion film projects.
The Film Option and Purchase agreement that was signed by both parties back in February 2003 allowed ADV to pursue “the possible development, production, financing and exploitation of at least three (3) live-action theatrical motion pictures, five (5) television programs and three (3) direct-to-video movies products (each, a “Project”).” ADV is suing Gainax over claims that Gainax breached their contract with them in not agreeing to hand over full rights to them once the specified amount of money was paid. A full run-down of the legal argument and history can be read in the original article at Crunchyroll.
What this means for the likelihood of any live action Evangelion production is unclear at the moment, but ADV claims that because of Gainax’s delays they have already missed at least one opportunity to produce a film with a major studio.
The CLUH cafe in Harajuku which opened an Evangelion Gallery on July 25th, had legendary Japanese graffiti artist Cook from the CMK crew paint a mural at CLUH.
An official Evangelion portal for Android phones is available as an app on the Android Market. The application comes bundled with wallpapers, ringtones/alerts, an icon theme, clock and battery widgets, an Evangelion news widget, Evangelion themed twitter application and contacts (looks like a Nerv ID). There are also a customized Android market for Evangelion apps. It’s available on the market for around $4.50 (USD).
I haven’t downloaded it for my phone but based on screenshots, the majority of the applications seem to be Japanese. The clock and battery widgets look pretty cool though.
Cafe CLUH in Harajuku, a neighborhood in Tokyo often considered the fashion capital of the world, will open an Evangelion (Gallary) gallery from July 25th to September 8th. The gallery will feature Evangelion art a collaboration of different artists as well as some original production drawings from the new movies. The cafe will also have various items from Radio Eva. The first week, July 25-31, will feature artwork from “STREET ART” and the first week of August will feature works from ‘PREMIUM14″. Later sometime during the fall, a permanent Evangelion Store will open up in Harajuku.
Some interesting looking pictures of Misato and Mari from “STREET ART”.
Lots of pictures posted on evafan‘s Livedoor blog from the Neon Genesis Evangelion Exhibition at Shotaro Ishinomori Furusato Kinenkan museum in Miyagi Prefecture. The exhibition will run until October 23rd and features both the original TV series as well as the new theatrical edition (Rebuild).
Eva-01 and the Lance at the entrance
Production Drawings, Story Boards, and Scripts
The Rei Ayanami Fender Guitar
Diorama of the inside of the Geofront
Pictures were from the evafan blog, click below to see more pictures from the exhibition.
A short 15 second TV commercial aired for the upcoming Evangelion 2.0, You can (not) advance broadcast on NTV this August 26th. The commercial itself doesn’t show anything new, but it’s somewhat exciting to see something at this point, even if it’s about 2.0.
