Have you all Neon Genesis Evangelion fans ever wondered what it would be like to stand in the palm of a life-sized Evangelion? Well, wonder no more, after the opening of the new Evangelion Kyoto Base! Built as an extended area of the popular Toei Kyoto Studio Park, the EVA Base is home to a life-sized model of the Shinji Ikari’s Evangelion, EVA-01!
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Evangelion fans! Is this going to be on your itinerary next time you visit Japan?
Yep, there's an angel coming
Since it can be put on rollers, the next logical step is to make Mari's Unit 5 with two small electric motors so it can be wheeled around the exhibit! 😁🤩
I am very jealous
I just so happened to watch this a year later by the date. Neat
Dont drink the fanta at this theme park!
just be calm then conzentrate up to arround 80 procent potential and back down to calm… that should give u "my" 100% sync someone scanned of me XD like making a little noise whit the car …brumm brumm… but just one… brumm and the "peak" of your conzentration shal be arround 1 to 2 seconds if i think back right…
Everybody gangsta until the blue floating thingy approaching in the city
Evangelion is about not escaping reality. Evangelion fans took that so seriously that they found ways to turn fantasy into reality
Awesome Video, I hope you guys get more subs! never watched this anime but I should
Is it 80 meters tall
This is so incredible!!!!!
Neon Genesis Evangelion nearly drove me to suicide.
Seeing Shinji suffering is like seeing myself suffer, because at one point in time I was almost exactly like him, especially back in 10th grade when I was bullied to the brink of suicide. I simply cannot tolerate watching Eva. I felt forced to relive my trauma upon viewing it. I’m deathly afraid of it. Twice I had a nightmare where I saw myself as Shinji choking Asuka and starting the Third Impact. I’ve been struggling with this newfound depression ever since.
I was obsessed with the series for over a year to try and outwit the isolation of the Coronavirus pandemic. It only increased the burden, and kept the memory of my friend’s recent suicide alive.
Watching the End of Evangelion was like peering into a broken mirror, and I was viewing the hell I would’ve put myself through had things turned out differently, had I decided to give up living. It still haunts me to this day.
Sometimes I hate myself because I fail to appreciate what so many have claimed to idolize, and I beat myself further for failing to worship what they call praiseworthy, I forced myself to watch a show that reminded me of nothing but pain just so I wouldn’t be alone anymore, I was willing to sacrifice my individuality for some company amidst the isolation of the pandemic.
I sought emotional refuge in the Evangelion fandom on social media, hoping they’d understand me and provide me with answers that would grant me peace of mind. Instead, they downplayed my trauma, going so far as to spread a rumor of my past to shame me of my mental illness, spiraling me deeper into depression, which I’ve been struggling with for over a year now.
I just want Shinji to be happy, so this past self of mine can be laid to rest once more. I’m afraid to decouple myself from him after losing my friend to suicide, which Eva made me feel responsible for, especially when I saw Shinji kill Kaworu, of which I fail to understand how anyone can call it praiseworthy. Until then, I feel nothing else matters.
There’s a reason why I keep coming back to Evangelion; something that reminds me of nothing but pain.
I want to prove to myself I’m not crazy for feeling this way, that Evangelion really did force me to relive my trauma, that my depression is not just a figment of my imagination or another anime plot point. I want to feel that my fear and resentment towards Eva is justified.
But the fact I’m the only one I know in existence who’s been traumatized by an anime makes me feel like I really am crazy.
Whenever I feel this way, there’s something I remind myself with.
But finally, with 3.0+1.0 released, I can rest easy knowing that Shinji has finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel. Evangelion is finished, and I want it to remain that way.
But if things hadn’t turned out that way, I wouldn’t be here today.
This looks like TOEI Studio Park… yes it is. It is a theme park in Kyoto that’s based around movies and media. The theme park is not about rides(rollercoasters etc) but about experiences and lots of cool stuff to do.
If its world war 3 amd Japan pulls out this… might as well be allies right?
It looks like cgi, that’s how insane it looks like
So when are they going to do Rayearth or Eureka 7 or Fafner?
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OMG I Love it. Cool!!
Man I was hoping his sync % went down even more when he done it for the second time 😂😂😂 I freaken love Japan they are so Amazing!!!
wait this was technically a year ago
This can stop the war of ukrained and russia
I want to pilot!
Seems like it's a bit smaller?
29% synchro rate is actually pretty solid. In the first episode Ritsuko and Maya are super impressed that Shinji achieved 41.3% the first time he got in Eva-01.
OMG ITS SHINJIS MOM
you can drink LCL XD
everybody gangsta till it goes beserk
get in the robot Shinji
When I go there, I want to meet Rei and Misato.