Evangelion Phone
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 20, 2009 17:01 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Cosplay, Evangelion, Keitai, Marketing, Movies, NTT
In another entirely unsurprising announcement of yet more Evangelion merchandising, NTT Docomo has announced that they will release an actual phone as a tie-in with next month’s Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance film.
According to the phone’s site, the “SH-06A NERV” special edition phone will be designed by director Hideaki Anno and also Studio Khara, with the handset made by Sharp.
The package will include themed accessories and packaging, and the phone itself make an appearance in the movie as well. This will presumably make the item a cunningly essential purchase for cosplayers from here on.
Numbers are limited to 30,000, so pre-ordering is advised. Needless to say, the phone will not be appearing on non-Japanese networks.
Via Gigazine.
It appears otaku will soon be able to enjoy an entirely Evangelion branded existence, with sneakers, pantsu, watches, ramen, emergency rations and even apartments on sale…













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You gotta be kidding me.
They don't say how much it is!
I'm in the market for a new cell phone. Definitely'd consider this one.
I want one T_T This phone would look bad ass when I flip it open during the end of the world, haha..o_O!
DO WANT!!! 8D
So they're finally going to have consumer technology that belongs in 2015?
Guess Shinji's gonna have to throw out that walkman.
That EvaPhone looks just as badass as the display of the Eva Watch. Makes me want to buy one as well.
What next are they gonna come up with? Red Evangelion laptops that looked like the ones shown in the anime? Angel-shaped USB flash drives?
Theres already Rei flash drives
Wow... not bad.
Sharp's phones are awesome.
I also have a japanese Cellphone from Sharp.
with the WATCH + SNEAKER + PHONE + ? = COMPLETE...
What's lack now would be the SUIT...may be undies will come b4 that...
Not going anywhere without the Evangeion headphones. I don't mean the generic cheap earbud ones announced a couple weeks ago either. I mean the giant ugly A.T.EVA1 ones made by Audio Technica. They aren't Jecklin Float ugly, but they're bad enough.
omg cool as ice this is~
i want!
weird..and no its not the phone its me...
i dont own one yet because i would barely use it and just lose it somewhere sooner or later..
and then this just gave me a no reason to buy one...
Man that looks soooo cool. i would love to have one. But its an only Japan thing. Man i wish i was living there then i would not have to miss out on all the games and stuff like that.
Argh! I want this bad! Is there anyway to preorder this? Link me!!!
I can't help but lol when I see the picture accompanying this article. The phones in the original Eva series were so huge and clunky. They seem enthralled with the idea of HOLY SHIT PHONES THAT FLIP CLOSED AND BECOME SMALL. Gotta love Tokyo-3's selective technological advancement.
I don't like the color and that phone seems like a toy.
Gray with red and letters and numbers in green is an inharmonious and awful color combination.
I will keep my Blackberry.
Oh man, if Telcel or Movistar sold these things...
YEAP
Side effects of over use may include:
Mental Breakdowns
Constant Screaming
Hallucinations
Mood swings
Ability to produce AT-Fields
Ability to destroy the world
Use With caution.
10 000 Japanese yen = 108.19 U.S. dollars
Blasphemy! They didn't have cellphones in 1995.
Wow costs almost 10k yen... that's bout 1k USD!
...Happy Rei chattering on the phone like a normal Japanese teenage girl?
DOES NOT COMPUTE
Its fine. she needs to be somewhat normal for A lucky guy to marry her.
She's speaking to Gendou.
Heeeh.
A long, LONG, way away from the noblesse oblige, but I'll take it.
the phone goes berserk,self-dials to SEELE and launches a full-scale attack;all hope was lost.Spear of Longinus not included.
found it in my forum,,some Higashi no Eden's cellphone being made:
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3734/1242959971139.jpg
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8703/1242960121190.jpg
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1051/1242960284296.jpg
Are all of the displays on that phone in LCD like that? Because that is just as badass as the EvaPhone.
If I were a phone collector, I don't know which one to get first! How much do both cost??
DO FUCKING WANT
Probably one of the most serious thing they're selling but i think i'll stay with my own N95, this one doesn't really attracts me even if the design is quite nice...
I still prefere the Zaku phone with the red head as charging base :D
It reminds me far too much of those grey 80's cell phones that are 3 inches thick and have those ugly green and red buttons. If that's what they're going for, then cool, but I'm failing to see the aesthetics here.
It's designed by Anno. That's your explanation.
I want it T.T
Is there like a petition or something to get stateside phone companies to bring this over? Because this just made the "must-have" list! Everything about it screams awesomeness!!!
Sweeeet, I want! I want!!!
Rumor has it Sony is gonna roll out a PSP phone this Christmas. That's gonna be a much better buy than this.
Evangelion aside, the design are indeed astonishing. Too bad very few cell designers in the industry know the concept of 'original' or 'attractive'
or here's a better question, how can I preorder the Rei themed one?
but can you make calls on it?
God this thing looks good. I'd buy one for the sake of having one regardless of whether I could even call anyone with it.
Very awesome design.
Fake, but primordially awesome.
Fake?
Are you fucking retarded or something?
Yes, I'm retarded.
Point proven, anon?
wait! I'm not done chewing that old bone!
Yep.
won't be much use to me unless i can get the language set to english and get it activated by Verizon. looks neat though
it's language is english when I saw the official site...dunno if it's the default or not...
HOLY SHIT! I hate cell phones but this looks frikkin sweet. Must have!
This
is
EVANGELION!
SPARTA!!!!
C-C-Combo Breaker!!
Fail
I haven't even seen this series and I want this