November 5, 2014 (Wednesday)
＜＜NEWS RELEASE＞＞
Experience entertainment of an overwhelming scale and quality, featuring four popular brands from Japan that are renowned across the world. UNIVERSAL COOL JAPAN A range of attractions based on four popular brands that can be seen all at once Time limited for 108 days from January 23 (Friday) to May 10 (Sunday), 2015
Universal Studios Japan announces that it will hold UNIVERSAL COOL JAPAN only in 2015 (as previously announced on July 31, 2014). This new event combines four major brands. In addition to Biohazard and Monster Hunter (as previously announced on September 18, 2014), the main attractions will also include Evangelion and Attack on Titan. All four brands—including manga, anime, and video games—are fantastic types of entertainment made in Japan that are highly evaluated across the world. The Park will feature brand-new attractions that have never existed until now, leveraging the unique entertainment ideas and high-level reproduction skills of Universal Studios Japan. The worlds of each brand will be reproduced on an overwhelming scale to share Japan’s appeal with the world. In addition to the main attractions based on the brands announced today, a range of new UNIVERSAL COOL JAPAN products will also be announced in the future.
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EVANGELION: THE REAL 4D Attack on Titan: THE REAL
Introducing the world’s first “4D” Evangelion The world’s first full reproduction of a attraction. “life-sized” Titan 15 meters tall!
Since its release in 1995, this hit anime has been 40 million copies of the Attack on Titan manga have hugely popular across the world—the Rebuild of been published (as of October 2014), and this Evangelion movies have been shown in movie renowned series is hugely popular in Asia as well. theaters including Japan, North America, Europe, and Now, Attack on Titan comes to the Park for the first Asia. Now, Evangelion comes to the Park for the first time. time. Universal Studios Japan’s creative team utilized its This is the first Evangelion 4D attraction ever, fantastic reproduction technologies to create an featuring a fully original story that can only be amazingly realistic view of the unique world of this seen in the Park and will be shown for a limited series. Before their eyes guests will see a time at the Universal Studios Cinema 4-D theater 15-meter-tall Eren Titan and a 14-meter-tall Female attraction. Titan! From the same viewpoint as the Survey Corps, Guests will encounter Angels and witness fights guests will view these two impressive Titans—which between the Evangelion units and Angels from seem likely to move at any minute and are brand-new, novel angles via 3D videos made with approximately 10 times larger than a human—with Hollywood technologies. Moreover, 4D special their naked eyes as they experience unimaginable effects including bomb blasts, flashes, water thrills. In addition, guests can look forward to a spray, and vibrations that shake the guests’ seats brand-new type of walk-through attraction that will thrill all five senses. Guests will be drawn into the features Universal Studios Japan’s wonderful movie world of Evangelion by the extreme sense of realism technologies that will be announced in the future! centered on these battles!
BIOHAZARD: THE ESCAPE MONSTER HUNTER: THE REAL
The Real Escape Game evolves into a The world’s first fusion of life-sized monsters realistic, live type entertainment that has never and special effects. been seen before! More than 31 million video games have been sold The Real Escape Game by SCRAP (Head Office: in the Monster Hunter series. For the first time, in this Tokyo) is expanding from Japan across the world. MONSTER HUNTER: THE REAL attraction—the third Now, it has been combined with the survival horror since 2011—special effects utilizing light will be world of Biohazard and a realistic environment combined with life-sized monsters, reproducing created by Universal Studios Japan that is so the world of Monster Hunter via environmental authentic it seems like a hallucination. Come effects. An ultra-electrified Zinogre, its whole body experience the most advanced type of realistic, charged with electricity, will appear in the Park for live entertainment ever. the first time before guests, who will be able to Inside a huge television station building, guests will physically experience the realistic sensation of be frightened by the threat of sudden zombie being struck by lightning. The entrance to the attacks. They will deal with a wide range of traps as venue will also feature a life-sized Seregios—a new they count down to the time limit and work to solve monster from Monster Hunter 4G—for the first multiple, detailed riddles. This new Real Escape time. Seregios will greet the guests with an Game must be taken on not only with intellectual overwhelming force and sense of lively motion that power but also courage, and allows guests to makes it look like it has just come down from the sky. experience an ultimate sense of accomplishment with This attraction features a great deal of content from their friends. the 4G version that can only be found in the Park, including popular Time Attack Challenges and food. * This is a new attraction that differs from the popular BIOHAZARD THE REAL 2 shooting attraction that began in August 2014 (held every day until November 9, 2014).
A large-scale event that spans the entire Park! In addition to the familiar Stage 18, which was the site of the past three MONSTER HUNTER: THE REAL attractions, the main venues for this large-scale event will include the new Attraction Area and Universal Studios Cinema 4-D theater attraction. Shops and restaurants related to the event can be found throughout the park, including carts (mainly near the main venues) and Finnegan’s Bar & Grill in the New York Area.
The Universal Cool Japan logo was beautifully written by SISYU, an artist who shares Japanese calligraphy with the world SISYU is a calligrapher who shares traditional Japanese calligraphy on the global stage and has won multiple awards inside and outside Japan. Based on her endorsement of “The world’s best from Japan”—the philosophy of this event—she created a beautiful logo overflowing with a sense of strength and lively motion.
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