“The End of Evangelion – Original Picture Album / OST Promotion” (THE END OF EVANGELION), Original Japanese Store Promotional Poster 1998, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) Q73

This is an original Japanese B2 store promotional poster issued in 1998 for The End of Evangelion, produced to promote the film’s Original Picture Album / soundtrack-related release. Unlike the standard theatrical posters for the film itself, this is a more specialised music / retail promotion piece, issued for display in Japan during Evangelion’s original late-1990s release era.

Background

By 1997–1998, Neon Genesis Evangelion had already transformed from a television phenomenon into one of the defining anime franchises of its generation. The End of Evangelion remains the climactic and most uncompromising expression of the series’ world: apocalyptic, emotionally devastating, visually radical, and central to the mythology of the Evangelion universe. Promotional paper tied to this period is especially sought after, as it belongs to the franchise’s original and most historically important phase.

This poster is particularly interesting because it is tied not simply to the film’s cinema release, but to its music / album promotion, with the printed credit line at upper right referencing music by Shirō Sagisu and BGM-entitled by Hideaki Anno. That makes it a distinctive crossover piece for collectors of both Evangelion and original Japanese anime soundtrack material.

Poster design

This is a stark, haunting, and highly collectible design. The composition is reduced to a wide panoramic field of red, black, and pale flesh tones, evoking the film’s catastrophic final imagery. Cruciform, outstretched figures appear against a blood-red horizon, while the foreground contains a darkened body-like form at the waterline. The typography at upper right — THE END OF EVANGELION — is restrained and elegant, allowing the image itself to dominate.

Unlike more character-driven Evangelion posters, this design is almost abstract in its emotional force. It captures the film’s mood of annihilation, transcendence, and desolation with remarkable economy. As a display piece, it is exceptionally powerful: minimal, disturbing, and unmistakably tied to the most intense visual language of late-period Evangelion.

Condition

Very Good / Excellent. Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale. 

It is over 28 years old!

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.