Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 delayed… finally.
By The Eva Monkey on Monday, October 6th, 2008
I was hoping that Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 would make it to theaters this year, as was previously expected. Quite a few of us in the fan community were speculating for a while on whether or not they would be able to put it out by year’s end based upon the timetable of the first film. Time slipped by and there was no release date nor footage to give us indication that the film was coming to completion. There was indication on blogs authored in moonspeak that the film had been delayed, and those mentions have been corroborated by the official Evangelion website that cites 2009 as the release date and includes the official poster art for Rebuild 2.0, entitled “You can (not) advance”. Notice anything familiar about it? Lazy Gainax is lazy. Oh, and the word is that it’s going to be early summer 2009. I’d like to start taking bets that by the time the series of films is completed, licensed, dubbed, and released to DVD, it will be 2015, and we can all chuckle nerdishly to ourselves at the Japanese of the mid-nineties and what they thought the near future would be like. I’m also taking bets on how long it will take for someone to make a monopoly joke out of the second film’s title.