Get Involved, Internet: Help Evangelion fans launch a spear into the moon, for obvious reasons
The 20th anniversary of legendary anime mindfuck Neon Genesis Evangelion is coming up this year, and fans in Japan have decided that they need to honor the series in an appropriately ridiculous way. Evangelion is about, essentially, teenagers who use giant robots to destroy giant monsters, except that’s purposefully reductive, because we don’t have the time to actually explain Evangelion. All that matters is that it has a ton of religious imagery, and also it’s a sci-fi action show about giant robots. Anyway, there’s a weapon in the show called The Spear Of Longinus, named after the supposedly real artifact that was used to stab Jesus during the crucifixion. On Evangelion, the spear eventually gets taken into space and stabbed into the moon, and that’s exactly how the fans have decided to celebrate the show’s 20 years of confusing everyone who watches it and/or reads about it.