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The Minato Mirai neighborhood is looking extra futuristic with Eva light-up and fireworks<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In the grand scheme of things, there really isn\u2019t all that much Evangelion<\/strong> anime. There was the original anime TV series that ran for 26 episodes, which was followed by two theatrical features made largely of recycled footage. 1997 brought the in-hindsight ironically named The End of Evangelion<\/em>\u00a0film, and then there were the four anime movies collectively called the Rebuild of Evangelion<\/em>, which wrapped up in 2021.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a drop in the bucket compared to franchises like Dragon Ball<\/em>, Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, Demon Slayer<\/em>, or Attack on Titan<\/em>, but Eva<\/em> remains one of the most influential anime ever made, a massive presence that, for three decades and counting, has been looming in the background of the Japanese animation world, and as of this weekend, Eva will be a massive presence looming in real-world Japan too<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As part of Evangelion\u2019s<\/em> 30th anniversary celebration the Minato Mirai district of Yokohama, half an hour south of downtown Tokyo, will be lit up for a special Eva illumination event<\/strong>. The harborside neighborhood already boasts some very futuristic-looking architecture, and it\u2019ll be looking even more so with the arrival of the head of Eva Unit-01 to the light pattern of the Cosmo Clock, the gigantic Ferris wheel<\/strong> in the Cosmo World amusement park that\u2019s become a symbol of Yokohama itself.<\/p>\n This part of Yokohama might look familiar to anime and video game fans, as a giant Pok\u00e9 Ball has also graced the Cosmo Clock<\/a>, and the sailing ship-shaped Intercontinental Hotel across the street served as the screen for a Final Fantasy<\/em> projection mapping display<\/a>. Fans will have no trouble figuring out who the collaborative partner is for the Evangelion<\/em> event, though, as buildings around the waterfront will be illuminated in the immediately recognizable purple-and-green color scheme of Unit-01<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Light-up dates vary by building, but they\u2019ll all be sporting the Eva<\/em> colors from February 6 until at least February 19, and the Unit-01 Ferris wheel pattern will appear through February 24<\/strong>, with the biomech\u2019s head appearing on the hour and at thirty minutes after between 6 and 9:30 p.m. In addition, Minato Mirai\u2019s five-minute fireworks<\/strong> show series, Night Flowers, will be lighting up the night sky in the character image colors of the Evangelion<\/em> core cast on February 7 and 14<\/strong>, with the pyrotechnics going off at 7 p.m. from the Shinko Futo Pier.<\/p>\n And don\u2019t worry, Minato Mirai is just a short subway ride from the Shin Yokohama neighborhood, where the Evangelion:30+ ; 30th Anniversary of Evangelion fan event will be hosting the Evangelion<\/em> kabuki performance<\/a> and screening the brand-new Eva<\/em> short anime<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source, images: Yokohama City Visitors Bureau<\/a><\/em> The Minato Mirai neighborhood is looking extra futuristic with Eva light-up and fireworks. In the grand scheme of things, there really isn\u2019t all that much Evangelion anime. There was the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/ey-2.jpg?w=640\")
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