It pays to erect a giant Evangelion statue in your Japanese town.
20-foot tall Evangelion statue: $326,000. Visitors: ≈51,800 from April to January. Payoff: $6.9 million in economic impact. I’d vote for one in my town! [Image: Shame they took it down. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/%C2%A9%E4%BB%98%E3%81%8D.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
Vroom, vroom.theverge.com
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