With Evangelion 3.0 premiering this fall, the franchise has been keeping very busy. There's the giant Rei slide, the Hakone shop opening, the upcoming "Girls of Evangelion" photo exhibition and Bizen Osafune Japanese Sword Museum's showcase swords of anime weapons, the center piece of which which is a three-meter-long, 30-kilogram recreation of Evangelion's Spear of Longinus.
