Eva Branding Spreads to Doritos in Japan

July 11, 2007 in Anime, Japan by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 2 comments

To promote the upcoming release of the first Rebuild of Evangelion movie on September 1st, Frito-Lay of Japan started selling (on July 9th) bags of Doritos with a few different Eva designs featuring Rei and Shinji. The two single character designs can be found on both 50g and 90g bag sizes but only the Puchi Eva designs from the figurine series are on 50g size bags. The chibi characters get the smaller bag! This promotion isn’t that different from the cross-promotion branding that occurs when blockbuster films launch in America – examples from this year are Shrek 3 and Spider-Man 3.