Posted by ketyung
on Feb/18/2009
at 4:12 am
If you’re a big fan of the Japanese anime and manga characters and stories, you should have also fallen in love with one of the popular anime movies – Rebuild of Evangelion. If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch user, you’re now extremely lucky, as the Tokyo-based Appliya Inc is bringing the Evangelion app to the iPhone and iPod Touch users.
The initial stage of the Appliya’s Evangelion will only be a casual app that uses the visual style, characters, and storyline from the Rebuild of Evangelion films. It makes use of the innovative touchscreen of the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the device’s camera, calendar functions and clock to make the Evangelion app much more lively and interesting on the Apple gadgets.
The Evangelion is the result of a joint production effort between Appliya and Japanese media company Broccoli Co., Ltd. The companies make this app is to address those anime fans who live outside of Japan, who always need to wait for years to get those anime characters, movies, that usually take times to leave Japan. Having the Evangelion app installed on your iPhone, you’ll also be like those in Japan, able to get the latest video games, applications and other digital products based on the Evangelion in time.
Press release
Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2009 – Tokyo-based Appliya Inc., a leading publisher of Japanese mobile applications, has obtained a license to provide anime fans with the world’s first iPhone and iPod Touch applications based on the highly popular Rebuild of Evangelion films produced by Khara Inc. The apps will be the result of a joint production effort between Appliya and Japanese game publisher BROCCOLI Co., Ltd. Their first Evangelion-related products are planned for submission to Apple in February 2009. More information can be found at Appliya Inc/Evangelion..
Appliya’s initial offerings for Evangelion will be “casual” apps that utilize the visual style, characters, and storyline from the Rebuild of Evangelion movies. These applications will take advantage of the innovative touch screen on the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the device’s camera, calendar functions, and clock.
Neon Genesis Evangelion first aired on Japanese television in 1995, and then went on to become a multi-billion dollar international anime franchise. The story is getting a modern upgrade with the new “Rebuild of Evangelion” films, a series of four movies that retell the original story with new animation, new characters, and some new plot twists. The release of the first movie, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, was an exciting event, and the film won many awards, including the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair award for Anime of the Year. The second movie in the series, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, is scheduled for release in Japan in the summer of 2009. Appliya’s license with the franchise producers provides them with unprecedented use of elements of the new Evangelion story including character designs, weapons, and the signature giant cyborgs known as the Evas.
Appliya’s applications should appeal to an international fanbase that has long been starved of digital Evangelion merchandise. Anime fans outside of Japan often feel neglected since it takes months or years for the hottest anime products to reach them, if they are exported at all. Evangelion is just one of many anime franchises with video games, applications, and other digital products that never left Japan, but Appliya’s Evangelion apps will be released to a wider range of audiences, and in many cases fans will have the apps before the Rebuild of Evangelion DVDs are even available in their area.
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