Evangelion shows up in Japanese proficiency exam

Level 1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test this year had a listening question which, to say the least, doesn’t involve a lot of of day-to-day vocabulary.

The humor here is that this little drama is heavily inspired by Eva (even using the names “Asuka” and “Unit 04″ and so on) while remaining just different enough to avoid copyright issues. I can’t help but laugh at how hard people wanted to understand this stuff back in the late ’90s without having to rely on subtitles.

If you know Japanese, why not listen and give it a shot? Transcripts and so on are under the cut.

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