Thursday, July 23, 2015

Evangelion Bullet Train: Shinji, get in the damn train!

As Neon Genesis Evangelion celebrates its 20th anniversary, a new collaboration has been announced, and this time, it’s with the Sanyou Shinkansen, the bullet train like which connects*Shin-Osaka station with Hakata Station. This new collabortion not only celebrates Eva’s 20th anniversary, but also Sanyou Shinkansen’s*40th anniversary.
Known as the “500 Type Eva Project”, the collaboration features the Kodama 730 issue trains leaving Hakata Station at 6:36, and the the Kodama 741 trains leaving Shin Osaka Station at 11:32, to sport a design based on Shinji Ikari’s*Eva-01. Now Shinji, get in the damn train!
The trains themselves were supervised by none other than Evangelion’s legendary director and mecha designer, Hideaki Anno and Ikuto Yamashita respectively.
The*500 Type Eva Project is scheduled to kick-off some time in autumn 2015 and will end service*by March 2017. Special memorabilia, as well as a variety of events are expected to be part of this collaboration.
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*source: IT MediaA huge thanks to Zenko for the heads up!
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