Evangelion live action is real
ITmedia reports that the April fools joke by Yahoo about making a live action TV drama of Evangelion wasn’t that much of a joke after all.
Yahoo asked visitors to vote for their dream cast for if an Evangelion live action drama was made, and now TV Asahi will be making a live action Evangelion with the cast that was voted by users. It’s not certain yet if they can completely stick to the casting from the poll results, but they’ll try their best to do so.
Anyway it doesn’t seem like it’ll be a real TV drama or a movie, as the article says it will be used to promote the 2nd Evangelion movie that will be going on theaters in June, so it’s likely it’ll just be a short clip.
These are the people that were the top picks for each character:
Ikari Shinji - Kamiki Ryunosuke
Ayanami Rei - Horikita Maki
Shikinami Asuka Langley - Toda Erika
Ikari Gendou - Abe Hiroshi
Akagi Ritsuko - Matsuyuki Yasuko
Katsuragi Misato - Matsushima Nanako
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:47 am
Maki as Rei is absolute WIN!, well, she is a little old for the role now, but stil sounds very appealing.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 am
WHAAAAAAAAAAT!
April Fooled! I love it when a company fools everyone into thinking anything is April Fools when it isn’t.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 am
Gotta be the first to say… I’l be 100% darn AVOIDING it.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
Yes! Abe Hiroshi is the man! (Shout-out to バブルへGO!!～タイムマシンはドラム式, of course!)
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 am
@ mugi: seconded..
ryunosuke as shinji?? i dare to bet he’s gonna have a mental breakdown after finishing this series
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:09 am
Matsushima Nanako as Misato is serious win. I wanna watch this~
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Hey, wasn’t ADV doing a live-action version as well ?
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Maki-chan. <3
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
fuck yeah ! Horikita Maki as Rei !!!
April 4th, 2009 at 12:52 am
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*insert sound of ultimate suffering*
Though Abe Hiroshi as Ikari Gendo is pretty funny.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Why is Asuka named Shikinami instead of Soryuu??
April 5th, 2009 at 4:48 am
She got a new name for the movie version
April 5th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Uh. Yeah. Asuka would actually be more-or-less Caucasian if they were preserving race from the series. Believe her mother was half-white to begin with.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
First Dragonball, then Cowboy Bebop now NGE…great news if it comes into fruition
April 8th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Kid playing Shinji could look the part. If he was screaming.
Guy playing Gendou looks like he’s going to be epic.
October 27th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Yeah, I think most of those look like good choices. But Asuka, being half-German/Japanese with half-American on the other side should probably look Caucasian (especially since Japanese usually interpret Americans as white so it’s likely Mr. Langley was as such).
It shouldn’t be that hard to get a Western actor should it? At least not any harder than getting Japanese actors for everyone else (since the film is Western produced).
I also want to say, though I’m not familiar with any of these actors Abe Hiroshi looks perfect for Gendo.