{"id":15263,"date":"2009-04-04T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=15263"},"modified":"2009-04-06T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T12:32:35","slug":"tv-asahi-yahoo-to-produce-live-action-evangelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tv-asahi-yahoo-to-produce-live-action-evangelion\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Asahi &#038; Yahoo to Produce Live Action Evangelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tv-asahi-yahoo-to-produce-live-action-evangelion-450x293.jpg\" alt=\"TV Asahi &amp; Yahoo to Produce Live Action Evangelion\" title=\"TV Asahi &amp; Yahoo to Produce Live Action Evangelion\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tv-asahi-yahoo-to-produce-live-action-evangelion-450x293.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tv-asahi-yahoo-to-produce-live-action-evangelion-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tv-asahi-yahoo-to-produce-live-action-evangelion.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On April Fools Day, Yahoo Japan launched a webpage encouraging Japanese site visitors to vote on an ideal cast for a live action Evangelion film. Whether or not the April 1st poll was intended as a gag, ITmedia now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/0904\/02\/news051.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Yahoo and Japanese television network TV Asahi are planning to proceed with the development of a promotional live action Evangelion production respecting the results of public voting as closely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular actor selections were:<\/p>\n<p>Ikari Shinji &#8211; <b>Kamiki Ryunosuke<\/b> (Tantei Gakuen Q, Kamen Rider Agito)<br \/>\nAyanami Rei &#8211; <b>Horikita Maki<\/b> (Galileo, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e)<br \/>\nShoryu Asuka Langley &#8211; <b>Toda Erika<\/b> (Code Blue, Hana Yori Dango 2)<br \/>\nKatsuragi Misato &#8211; <b>Matsushima Nanako<\/b> (Hana Yori Dango, GTO)<br \/>\nIkari Gendou &#8211; <b>Abe Hiroshi<\/b> (Blackjack ni Yoroshiku Special, Hero)<br \/>\nAkagi Ritsuko &#8211; <b>Matsuyuki Yasuko<\/b> (Blackjack 2, First Kiss)<\/p>\n<p><i>Meanwhile, we&#8217;re still awaiting that live action Evangelion movie that AD Vision announced back in 2003.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/zepy.momotato.com\/2009\/04\/03\/evangelion-live-action-is-real\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canned Dogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April Fools Day, Yahoo Japan launched a webpage encouraging Japanese site visitors to vote on an ideal cast for a live action Evangelion film. Whether or not the April 1st poll was intended as a gag, ITmedia now reports that Yahoo and Japanese television network TV Asahi are planning to proceed with the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15276,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions\/15276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}