The Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance opens in Minnesota, Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh
The Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance film will open in more cities including Minneapolis, Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Chicago, & Washington, D.C.
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance is a 2009 Japanese animated film written by Hideaki Anno. It is the second of four films released in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy based on the original anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was produced and co-distributed by Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara.
Cinema Asia Releasing, Eleven Arts and FUNimation Entertainment are expanding the release to more cities after it was originally opened on January 21.
Some theaters will also show the first chapter, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, before the second one.
The movie opens with a new Evangelion pilot, Mari Illustrious Makinami, being launched in Provisional Unit-05 to destroy the resuscitated skeleton of the Third Angel in its attack on NERV’s arctic Bethany Base. She successfully defeats the Angel by self-destructing Unit-05, safely ejecting at the last moment.
Evangelion 2.0 : You Can (Not) Advance – Official Trailer