Maybe you've managed to become cynical enough that this doesn't faze you, but we're still overcome with a sense of "whaaaaa?" every time we're reminded of Petit Eva's existence. And that's fun! Publisher Namco Bandai (well, let's be honest, this is Bandai) has released a trailer of the puzzle/communication/minigame title that features the bouncy music and cute, upbeat narration you'd expect from Evangelion. As well as, uh, foot races between Shinji and a personified EVA-01.
The trailer shows a bit of the "Heart Touch" gameplay, in which Shinji works to gain the approval of another character. Somehow this works out in this particular instance as "circling Asuka, watermelon, and cake."


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You may know Neon Genesis Evangelion as a dense work with an inscrutable and debatable storyline built from religious, psychological, and philosophical themes. It's the giant robot anime with the completely nonsensical, abstract ending sequence. You may also know it as the source of a bunch of skeezy figurines and doujin comics. But Petit Eva is ... not those things.


