Tokyo Otaku Mode’s Evangelion x Full Graphic Kimono Project Available for Order

By The Eva Monkey on Saturday, November 19th, 2016 in Evangelion 3.0, Merchandise, News, Rebuild of Evangelion.

Last month I posted about Tokyo Otaku Mode’s Evangelion x Full Graphic kimono project taking votes on six designs featuring scenes from Evangelion 3.0. It looks like the winner ended up being the design focused on various dramatic moments featuring the Eva Units.  The design is now available for prorder, although they refer to the […]

Tokyo Otaku Mode Launches Evangelion x Full Graphic Kimono Project

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 in Evangelion 3.0, Merchandise, News, Rebuild of Evangelion.

Between now and October 31st, you can participate in Tokyo Otaku Mode’s Evangelion x Full Graphic Kimono project.  There are six designs featuring scenes from Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo to vote for.  Results will be revealed in November, and the winner will be part of a limited run of 100 full-graphic kimonos that […]

Hideaki Anno apologizes for Evangelion delay.

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 in Evangelion 3.0, Evangelion 3.0+1.0, News, Rebuild of Evangelion.

It’s been a long time since Evangelion 3.0 was released to theaters in 2012.  It may be hard to forget, given the puzzling series of delays before Funimation finally released it in English earlier this year.  However it’s approaching four years since the third installment was released in Japan.  In case you missed it, director Hideaki […]

Evangelion 3.33 release date revealed by FUNimation at New York Comic Con

By The Eva Monkey on Monday, October 12th, 2015 in Conventions, Evangelion 3.0, Merchandise, News, Rebuild of Evangelion.

FUNimation announced Saturday at its industry panel at New York Comic Con that it will be releasing Evangelion 3.33 to home video February 2nd, 2016.  Exact details are forthcoming, however it appears that it will be sold as a Blu-ray/DVD combo.  It would seem that this is it, finally, after nearly two full years of […]

Evangelion shorts on Animator Expo

By The Eva Monkey on Friday, February 13th, 2015 in Evangelion 3.0, Rebuild of Evangelion, Video.

Late last year, Studio Khara teamed up with Dwango (which operates the video site Niconico) to create Animator Expo, a serialized project that provides a venue for animation producers.  The site, which is bilingual (Japanese and English) describes its mission: Original projects, spin-off projects, promotional films, Music PV, and VJ Films etc… Various omnibus animations […]

Funimation dub of Evangelion 3.33 still not finished.

By The Eva Monkey on Monday, July 14th, 2014 in Evangelion 3.0, News, Rebuild of Evangelion.

There have been a bunch of vague and unspecified delays since the beginning of the year in regards to the English release of Evangelion 3.33.  Last month, Toonami tweeted that Funimation said 3.33 was “still on hold” and that they were “Working ‘closely’ with studio khara to ‘make it closer to original vision.’”.  This prompted […]

Evangelion 3.0 feature in Otaku USA by Eva Monkey

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 in Evangelion 3.0, Rebuild of Evangelion.

I’m pleased to report that the February 2014 issue of Otaku USA magazine is now on newsstands.  I wrote the cover feature for the issue, so please give it a read if you’re able.  It was an exciting and challenging opportunity for me, the only things I’ve had published have been in my university’s student […]

FUNimation announces Evangelion 3.33 release date

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 in Evangelion 3.0, Merchandise, Rebuild of Evangelion.

A little bit over a month ago, a product listing for Evangelion 3.33 with the date “February 18th” appeared on Wal-Mart’s online store.  Several days ago a product listing with the same date appeared on RightStuf.  Then today the “Evangelion” facebook page announced the RightStuf date as being the official date (subject to change), with […]

Evangelion 3.33 licensed by FUNimation

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 in Evangelion 3.0, Rebuild of Evangelion.

FUNimation has licensed Evangelion 3.33. After a social media thing where they encouraged people to help them get to a million likes on Facebook, they announced it there as a thank you of sorts.  So, yay for that, I think.  Further details, like a release date, are forthcoming, however if the previous releases are any […]