Evangelion

IMGPicture: NHK“Unit 01's been awakened and set free. Seele won't stay quiet for this.” The city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, the setting of Village-3 in Evangelion: 3.0 1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, unveiled a six-meter-tall statue of Unit 01 earlier this week in the local City Hall. The statue is part of a city-wide local tourism effect which will be running from now until February 2026.

A cumulative total view numbers of the music video for "The Cruel Angel's Thesis" ("Zankoku na Tenshi no Te-ze" in Japanese), the opening theme song for the 1995-1996 TV anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, has finally surpassed 100 million on YouTube. Japanese record company King Records' official X (formerly Twitter) announced the news on November 20.Singer Yoko Takahashi originally released "The Cruel Angel's Thesis" from King Records' Star Child label as her 11th CD single on October 25, 1995.

One of Japan’s most celebrated creatives, Mahiro Maeda, will be releasing his first-ever collection of works later this year, tentatively titled “Maeda Mahiro Zatsu Gashu (Masahiro Maeda’s Miscellaneous Art Collection).” Maeda is best known as a concept artist