While Evangelion is one of the most influential animated series to come out of Japan, this gigantic statue of Evangelion Unit-01 was first displayed at last summer’s ChinaJoy digital entertainment trade show in Shanghai, as part of the promotion for Chinese software developer Heitao’s Evangelion mobile game.
Last month, lovers of giant robots everywhere were saddened to hear that Tokyo’s full-scale Gundam statue will no longer be displayed after March 5.
However, the 24.8 meters of the statue qualified it to be officially recognized as the largest Evangelion by the Guinness World Records association, and for that, we think its planners and builders deserve a heartfelt “Congratulations!”
The Evangelion series is infamous for its aversion to making concrete statements about its events and characters, and that vagueness extends to the specs for Unit-01.