Liquid from Japan

[rushthatspeaks]

rachelmanija, having been to Japan recently, sent our household a package.

It was medium-sized, and had 'Fragile' and 'Liquid' stamped on it. "Hmmm," I thought. "Whatever this contains is going to be spectacular."

So I gathered the household together.

It was an official Neon Genesis Evangelion can of coffee. With Kaoru on it. He looks very happy.

"Oh, awesome!" Thrud said. "We can put that on the Kaoru shelf!"

We do, in fact, have an entire shelf of merchandise of Kaoru. Including the random figure of him as a girl with pigtails who is not wearing any pants. Thrud collects all Kaoru merchandise. At last count we have every poster of him ever made, plus I think eight or ten figures and various other random stuff.

So we went over to the Kaoru shelf, and Thrud took something down from the back. She smiled beatifically.

"It's different!" she said. "Cool!"

Evidently, some while back Thrud had spent some absurd amount of time or money or both on Japanese eBay and had bought an empty can of canned coffee with a picture of Kaoru on it. However, the can Rachel got us was a) full and b) a totally different picture.

Because Japan has more than one kind of Neon Genesis Evangelion coffee.

Every time I think I've gotten over being surprised by anything having to do with anime, something like this happens.

We are now trying to decide whether anyone actually wants to drink the Kaoru coffee. Thrud is absolutely delighted, because even she would not have suspected that it would be worth looking for multiple different cans of the stuff. And I am somewhere between amused and flabbergasted, which boils down to highly entertained.

Thank you muchly, Rachel.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Wondrous. I shall have to visit the shrine.

Nine

[weirdquark]

Including the random figure of him as a girl with pigtails who is not wearing any pants.

You forgot to mention that she made him pants to fix this problem.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

And that before then, he (he?) had this sort of very un-Kaoruly strained expression on his face. Thrud described it as "My universal love for all of humanity is slightly challenged. Who stole my pants?"

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks for the write-up. I am relieved that you did not, in fact, already have this, as I had wondered; I don't know whether I'm more boggled that you sort of did or that there are at least two different Kaoru coffee cans.

Now please please please post a photo of the Kaoru shelf.

[seishonagon.livejournal.com]

I volunteer myself as a test subject for Kaworu coffee. Being, you know, the person you know who is the most into coffee.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yay.

[khukuri.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, that's fab. Human Instrumentality never tasted so good!

[foleyartist1.livejournal.com]

Persephone and I consulted about this and posit that perhaps Ada's original can was the Kaworu pic previous to the promotions for the new movies and that this is the Kaworu pic which is the promotion for the new movie?