![]() The three physical buttons along the bottom (for cycling through options, confirming, and canceling) might seem outdated in our increasingly touchscreen world, but just like Shinji’s in-anime tape player, they’re also a charming retro touch. Much like Daiso light-up poop sticks, the Evatchi comes with a charged battery, and you pull out a strip of tape to power it on. ![]() Announced back in the spring, we’d been waiting two months to get our hands on an Evatchi, and though they’re also available in red and white varieties (saluting characters Asuka and Rei), we opted for a purple Evangelion Unit-01 model. ![]() Officially, it’s called the General-Purpose Egg-Type Ultimate Weapon Evatchi, sort of like how Evangelion is officially titled Neon Genesis Evangelion. We have no answer to that, and that’s how we ended up buying ourselves one of toymaker Bandai’s brand-new Evatchis when they came out this month. So if there’s a place in this world for Evangelion, and a place for Tamagotchi, why shouldn’t there also be a place for Evangelion Tamagotchi? It’s a testament to the wide variety of Japanese pop culture that late-‘90s debuts of psyche-scarring anime Evangelion and adorable virtual pet Tamagotchi came only 13 months apart from one another, and both went on to become global hits. We learn a hard lesson about being good parents while trying to take care of our little Angel.
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