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Strategic Defense Force Integrated Mechanic Soldier Type-4 "Akashima" (戦略自衛隊・四式統合機兵「あかしま」?) is a mecha that appears in the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novel. It is a new, transformable anti-Angel weapon used by the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Force and built with the assistance of the NERV Japan.
Profile[]
The humanoid shape of the N² Reactor-powered Akashima was designed to be this way to be able to transverse any kind of terrain and its arms to be able to hold weapons and fire it at any direction. If it failed, with its humanoid arms it could at least hold the enemy down in close combat. The main body offered more than mere structural support, it provided a frame for protective armor and could withstand unexpected impacts if necessary.[1] In the wings of the cruiser mode, additional equipment can be added. Two pilots can fit inside it, being hold by multiple harnesses, one driver and one gunner to fully control the machine.
It can also change the configuration by transforming it from humanoid into cruiser mode. By being able to fly, it allows the JSSDF to act faster than ever in any location where it was needed and without any external support. Toji remarks that the Akashima can't fly high due to the ground effect and advises Shinji to not get too happy since publicly it was announced to be anti-Angel mech designed to support the Evangelions, but heard people say that it could be that it was made to eliminate the Evangelions.[2]
The Akashima was also a testing unit for the graviton floaters in Evangelion Unit-02 Type II Allegorica.
History[]
Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA[]
Volume 1[]
Multiple JSSDF forces began to mobilize in areas near the UN leased area near Tokyo-3, Hakone.
Volume 2[]
At some point, some Akashimas were upgraded with quantum wave mirrors, with the N² reactors supplying the necessary gravitons to ressonate.[3]
Using an agreement that allowed them to take preventative measures, the JSSDF invaded the area under UN control. Warrant Officer Endo of the Anti-Angel Rapid Response Unit, and requested to speak with Commander Katsuragi Misato but the most superior officer at command was Toji Suzuhara.
Endo informs Toji that his squad was transferred to Tokyo-2 and they were just recently deployed to the caldera and he thought that was time to say hello, since he claims that the government is in talks with the UN to temporarily relocate a portion of their functions to Tokyo-3. Toji asked why that location in specific and Endo answered that the land is the most seismically stable place in all of Japan. But for whatever reason, the tremors were being suppressed here. The JSSDF science advisors had a theory—the cause has something to do with the Chronostatic Sphere.[4]
Volume 3[]
The Akashima commander is Lieutenant Colonel Kasuga, one of the pilots is Warrant Officer Endo. The Acting Deputy Commander Tōji Suzuhara negotiates with them in order to send a recovery mission to The Valley of Human Bodies in Morocco, North Africa and travels inside one to get there, and there he meets Hikari Horaki.
Volume 4[]
Volume 5[]
Trivia[]
References[]
- ↑ Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA Volume 1, Chapter 02
- ↑ Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA Volume 1, Chapter 02
- ↑ Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA Volume 2, chapter 40
- ↑ Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA Volume 2, chapter 41