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Sean Hollister
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!

Shame they took it down.
Shame they took it down.
Image: Hamamatsu City
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