Japanese illustrator puts Chiba Prefecture’s connection to Neon Genesis Evangelion on the map

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:

  • "How perceptive. Wonderful!"
  • "From Chiba-kun [Chiba's dog-shaped mascot vaguely shaped like the prefecture] to Chibeva-kun. A certain railway company should set up a collaboration."
  • "Tokyo-3 was in Chiba Prefecture?"
  • "So, I live in Eva Unit-01's neck?"

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.

By - grape Japan editorial staff.

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