Did you ever think about moe-ficating your smartphone? I did when I saw this Evangelion iPhone case lately somewhere on the interwebs. Being still fascinated by Evangelion 2.0 I couldn’t resist and ordered the Rei version. The only shop still having a few in stock was Strapya World. Haven’t heard about that shop before but looked quite solid and they didn’t disappoint me. The small package arrived here in less than two weeks, which is really good for SAL shipping.

Looks way better than the usual backside view indeed. The funny thing about iPhone owners is that all of them, at least those I know, have a bunch of cases and accessories lying around after a few months. Maybe just because no one wants to look at an incomplete fruit on the back of a 700€ phone. ^^;

Today Apple is selling stuffs with reduced prices over on the Apple Store by the way. (Unfortunately even with those discounts their products are way too overpriced.)

But lets get back to the Rei case:

It’s an officially licensed product by Bandai and costs ~12€. Although the description said “Super smooth rubber fits tight to an iPhone” it’s made of usual PVC. Hopefully it won’t scratch my iPhone. You can order the case here, and looks like there are other versions available too.

Strapya World has a bunch of other Evangelion accessories in stock too. From usual cellphone straps up to iPod Nano and PSP cases.

And also these:

Interface-Headset earphones! The Rei version of course. ^^;

The headphones are also made by Bandai as you can see on the boxes. And looks like a thick blue book fell from the ceiling this week too. xD

There’s also an Asuka version available for those readhead-tsundere freaks out there. ^^;

The sound quality isn’t top notch of course but the headphones don’t sound that much worse, compared to my 50€ Creative headphones which I’m usually using with my iPhone.

After all the important thing about those is the look, right? Do you customize your gadgets too?

And last but not least a piece of good news:

Nendoroid Mio is currently prepared for shipping!

It’s now two days after watching Evangelion 2.0 in Munich and time for a few words.

Note: I’d like to keep this post mostly spoiler free, as it would be a really cruel thing considering the plot of the movie.

Starting off with a battle between EVA 05 (Provisional Unit), piloted by Mari Illustrious Makinami fighting against the third angel. (It’s hard to recall the first few minutes, cause if you aren’t used to watch anime in a cinema it’s just too overwhelming at the beginning.)

This initiating battle scene is actually representative for the direction of the whole movie, as you notice that it is much more than a rebuild of the original series.

Evangelion 1.0 was merely a refurbished version of several episodes of the original series. You noticed most of the differences to the series in 1.0 but it’s sometimes hard to spot them in 2.0 as Evangelion 2.0 rewrites the storyline. With rewriting I’m not only referring to obvious stuff like introducing Mari as a new Character, reshaping EVA 05 (as it was a completely different model of the mass production units in EOE)  and a lot of different things happening in the movie (which I won’t tell you here) but because of the overall atmosphere.

You might be thinking “Different atmosphere, eh what?” but that’s one of the things I noticed throughout the movie. For several reasons Evangelion 2.0 feels warmer and by doing so more realistic.

One reason is that the characters show much more of their characteristics than before. Yes, they are more sociable in some way and therefore acting “more human”.

No, not like that…  Sry, but I had to post this pic. ^^;

Even someone who didn’t talk much before starts to interact with people out of a very “fuzzy” feeling. (For those who have already seen the movie too: Yes, I’m referring to the elevator conversation. xD)

Another thing rarely seen before is that the city seems to be more lively now. There are schoolgirls, businessman and such walking around on the streets which gives the impression that daily life goes on in Tokyo-3.

As for the animation: Breathtaking. Not only because I saw it on 92m². Fluid animations, great scenery which is beautiful even when the scenes are sometimes terrifying.

Pictures of destruction have never been that great! It might sound harsh but I was catching up on some currently airing anime yesterday and  it was… awful!

If you ever thought about downloading one of the cam rips out there… DON’T DO IT! Wait for the Bluray version!

The soundtrack is great, especially the epic instrumental tracks with the choir. They used some remixed old tracks which sound a little bit wacky though. But I guess you can’t use any other songs for certain scenes. Could you imagine Misato getting all warm und fuzzy with her beer cans without that comedy like music? I can’t.

The ending song was a real disappointment though. Don’t get me wrong, Utada Hikaru’s songs are great, but they just used an acoustic version of “Beautiful World”, which was the ending song of Evangelion 1.0.

I can’t help but look at this one as the real ending song:

Overall it was the best movie I have seen in a long time, maybe the best ever so far.

The credits where followed by the trailer for Evangelion 3.0: Quickening. One scene in there amused the audience quite well… unfortunately it spoils 2.0 in some sort.

Hopefully I motivated you to watch this movie too. It’s a piece of art every anime addict out there should watch at least once in her/his lifetime.

Last but not least I’d like to thank my friend docbey who nearly sacrificed  the front side of his new car for this movie as well as comrade Raito-kun for the great time we had. I’m looking forward to 3.0 ^^;

Now some picture spam for those interested.

In front of the cinema (Gloria Filmpalast) a few hours before watching the movie.

And that’s how you feel like after the movie. Completely nuts. ^_^

(Using a different camera for the first time can be hard.)

[Enter name of this building here] Munich is a beautiful city, would be great to stroll around and take a ton of pictures.

We couldn’t resist and visited the Apple Store there.

Unfortunately this temple of Fanboyism had a completely different effect on me. I can’t stand this! And I don’t want a new iMac. Those things are iMirrors.

My next PC won’t have an incomplete fruit on the case!

-hikky off

Just another really short update.

First: I could NOT resist and ordered a quite pricy but awesome figure:

Enka Oudo Dai Shogun Hattori Kiriko Ninja Version

Preordered for 11.400Yen / 83€ / 123USD from Hobbysearch.

Standing 340 mm tall, sculpted after a Yamashita artwork. She will be released in late January 2010. Being a Yamashita fan this was an instant GET for me. ^_^

I’m wondering why they didn’t use purple for her suite though. Would look a little bit better in my opinion.

Now on to the next topic:

It’s actually the first time that I’m watching an animu in the cinema. I’m so exited!!! \o/

There occurred two problems though:

1.) We (Raito-kun, dobbey and myself) need a environment-badge thingy for the car if we don’t want to pay 40€ for a traffic ticket. Problem solved thanks to DeJaY. Germany is weird!

2.) Not enough power connectors built into docbey’s car! We will have an iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, a new iPod Nano (evil grin), two cameras and a netbook with us.

Is anyone interested in some video footage from the event and such? No, not from the movie. ^^;

Let me know below and be sure to follow me on Twitter to stay up to date!

Here are the awaited NGE figure shots. Took some time as I had to sort a lot of pics…

Let’s start with the Rei Ayanami Rebuild version from Alter.

Rei comes with an glossy black tile, with the red Evangelion Rebuild lettering. Was dusting it off but as you will see in the following pictures—> this thing is a dust magnet! I’ll display her without this as she will be lying on my desk which is glossy anyhow from now on.

Rei together with her 2D-wallpaper-clone.

Who is able to resist those eyes? “Yes I can (not)!”

Well painted plug suito. Oh right… she is cloned by Alter ^_^

Was playing a little bit with the lightning. WIN?

Rei-chan comes with an interchangeable hairpiece to display her without the hairclips. Or have those things a special name? Me has to re-watch NGE!

Guess which song was playing while the Winamp visualisation was @ fullscreen xD

The next figure is the grown-up Creator’s Labo #015 version of mai waifu, sculpted after a Shunya Yamashita drawing.

Name @ the base, for those who don’t believe that this is really Rei ^_^

The huge red anime eyes are gone, but a few other things are more developed now

I meant her long legs of course…

Great details, would like to see some cosplay with the redesigned plug suite.

oO My cameras focus was going nuts at this shot… I don’t blame it xD

Oho the pic unveils some dust, have to dust her off xD

The following pics of Kotobukiyas Rei and Asuka Gothic Lolita Ver. were taken while I have been already in a hurry, wich means the quality s*cks.

Rei and Asuka posing on some ruins in front of Neo Tokyo-3’s skyline.

Plugsuites vs GL-outfits, what would you choose?

Quite difficult to get a good close-up of her face.

ORZ, forgot to take a pantsu-shot… will follow next weekend. I promise!

Rei comes with this hat as in this GAINAX illustration. Don’t like it though. She looks better without it in my opinion.

Mai waifu looks great in a GL dress too.

Let me know what you think of the pics. Do you like pics with a “themed” background or would you prefer simple and plain backgrounds?

Have to get going now, to ze army camp which means I’m only online with my iPhone until next Friday… farewell my waifus (ToT)

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I just added another device to my desk… a Netgear RangeMax Wireless-N WNR2000 WLAN-Router.

Finally I have ze internets in the whole house, in every room on all floors xD.

Somehow all my devices are black and glossy…

And for ~55€ I have got a device with the following specs:

Standards

• IEEE 802.11n draft version 2.0, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b, 2.4 GHz
• Five 10/100 Ethernet ports (1 WAN port, 4 LAN ports)

Security

• Double firewall:
  - Network Address Translation (NAT) to hide PCs and files from outside users
  - Stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall to deny outside requests for personal information
• Denial-of-service (DoS) attack prevention
• Intrusion detection and prevention (IDS)
• WiFi Protected Access™ (WPA2-PSK, WPA-PSK)
• Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) 64-bit, 128-bit encryption
• Wireless access control to identify authorized wireless network devices
• Exposed host (DMZ) for secure gaming
• Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ (WPS), pushbutton and PIN

Functions

• Supports Wi-Fi Multimedia™ (WMM) based Quality of Service (QoS)
• Auto FW detection algorithm

Privacy and Parental Control

• “Trusted user” control
• Time-based usage controls
• Web site logging
• Remote management
• URL content filtering

Don’t know how I managed to survive as a geek without WLAN until now…

The iPhone surely is the gadget which profits most of my wireless network. Isn’t the WIFI icon great?

And as I’m sure somebody will ask for the wallpaper: Here it is in full-size  and iPhone-size:

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What’s the best after a week of weapon maintenance?

Yus, unpacking some figures xD

Another figure parcel arrived today from Archonia.com containing four figures from NGE. Seems like the financial crisis didn’t reach me yet. (Btw: Who is able to name the weapon I disassembled in the first picture?)

Ayanami Rei, Gothic Lolita Ver., Kotobukiya, 1/7

Souryuu Asuka Langley, Gothic Lolita Ver., Kotobukiya, 1/7

Comes with this huge stand and looks great together with the Gothic Loli Rei.

Ruined buildings can look great! Just put a Gothic-Loli on top!

Ayanami Rei, Creator’s Labo #015, Yamato, 1/6;

Sculpted after this well-known, gorgeous drawing by Shunya Yamashita.

Ayanami Rei, Gothic Lolita Ver., Kotobukiya, 1/7

If you would ask me what’s the greatest figure of this loot, I guess I wouldn’t be able to answer. Great  overall quality. Although the Alter Evangelion 1.0 Rei seems to be the one with the best quality.

More pictures will follow, stay tuned @twitter!

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Yus, for the first time Amazon failed for me!

They couldn’t get a copy of the Premium Edition of the Kalafina single Oblivious I mentioned a few weeks ago.

Translated mailu (Google-Translation) below:

Good day,
we have current information about your order.
The following title is not available:
   Kalafina "Oblivious" [Audio CD]
For a time we had to wait in the hope that the item still for you able to obtain.
This article from your order had to be deleted. Your credit card or your bank account is for this article
of course not be charged. If you have a product with one of our Marketplace Seller would like to order
Please re-visit the product detail page and click "All bids or offers available from". Please note that
Terms of the Marketplace offerings by shipping conditions, the Amazon.de apply for different.
We try our very, our database up to date hold. Occasionally it may happen that changes not yet in
our database or producer prices before Release date will be changed again. In these cases please
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Your order is complete.

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I’m so depressed that I just had to order this bunch of figures.

Rei-overflow expected next week xD

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a while ago I started to take photoshots of my figures and posted them @ otinex.org (I’m co-admin there, it’s german but pictures don’t need a translation ), ok let’s start with those two:

Saber Black Dress Version 1:7

and

Rei Ayanami Party Dress Version 1:7