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As any Evangelion fan will tell you, the most famous real-world location with a connection to the seminal anime franchise is Hakone, the setting for Tokyo-3. It's almost impossible to take a walk through the main street without noticing something Evangelion-related.
However, Japanese illustrator Ninomae Hajime (@ninohajim) has made a startling discovery which may encourage fans to turn their attention—if only for a moment—away from Hakone, and southwestwards towards Chiba Prefecture.
Look carefully at this map...
Do you see anything in the contours of Chiba Prefecture?
Reproduced with permission from Ninomae Hajime (@ninohajim)
As it turns out, Chiba Prefecture's outline bears a startling similarity to Eva Unit-01.
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Reactions to this discovery came in quickly as the Tweet went viral, garnering 44,000 likes and 10,000 retweets at the time of writing. For example:
Maybe more Eva-dence is yet to be discovered in the map of Japan...or even your country.
Note: The similarity between Chiba Prefecture and Unit-01 in no way reflects any official admission by Khara, Inc. and is merely coincidental.