With eight Evangelion Revoltechs in my backlog , I had to take one of them and give it a photo shoot. I picked the newer
Revoltech No.027 EVA-02 (1997 Movie Version). The box of this EVA-02 is slimmer than the rest of the Revoltechs, but the contents are not trimmed at all! Packed with a core body, seven hands, a twin-blade, a 'pen-knife' dagger, dagger-release shoulder, missile pod shoulder and power cable. This newer 'breed' of Revoltechs stands at a 140mm height compared to the earlier Revoltechs. An immediate difference I spotted is the better articulation design compared to my earlier
EVA-01. The EVA-02 is really cool and it takes this gallery to tell you why!
EVA-02
弐号機
1997 Movie Version
28th July 2007
Equipment: Canon IXUS40
Photography and Editing by William Tan
Evangelion Unit 02, built by NERV Germany, is the first Production Model Eva. It is piloted by Asuka Langley Soryu and is the first Evangelion built specifically for combat. Combining the efficient construction of Unit 01 with an arsenal of concealed weaponry, Unit 02 is a walking tank designed to counter the threat posed by the Angels, although it fails to reach the power level of Unit 01, which remains the most powerful Evangelion ever built. It can be considered the most stable Evangelion as it only goes truly "berserk" once, just before its destruction. It has achieved an unusually high sync ratio with its pilot(s), on two other occasions: once in combat against the 6th angel Gaghiel, and once under the influence of the 17th Angel. The unit is colored red and has two pairs of eyes (4 total). The head armor has two movable sections, one covering both the jaw and lower eyes and the other above the upper pair of eyes. These plates can actually shift, displaying glowing white eyes. This happens underwater during the fight with Gaghiel when Asuka needed to pry open the giant Angel's mouth. Some argue that in this state, Unit 02 has achieved "berserker" status, but fans remain divided on the subject. This also occurs when the 17th angel, Tabris, takes command of unit 02 in episode 24. As a result of being constructed by NERV Germany, and also as an accommodation for its three-quarters-German pilot, its default language setting is German. It is known to contain the part of the soul of Asuka's mother that is defined as "mother". Unit 02 features a different progressive knife from earlier Eva units as well as an internal weapon rack in the right shoulder binder which fires needle packs. Unit 02 has blue blood, which is first seen when the fourteenth Angel, Zeruel, cuts off its arms.
Unit 02 is finally destroyed in The End of Evangelion by Units 05 through 13. Asuka was still highly synchronized with Unit 02 as it was destroyed, thus practically suffering every wound (the frames after the Lance of Longinus is plunged just above the Eva's left eye show her bleeding rapidly from above her eye, as well as getting her arm sliced in half by another Lance). Later, when Shinji emerges from the GeoFront in Unit 01, he is horrified to see one of the mass produced Evas carrying Unit 02's mangled upper torso in its hands.
