A couple of Japanese media reports have surfaced regarding the Rebuild of Evangelion series.

First, the additional Eva 1.0 revision for TV broadcast last Friday was a success according to media analytics firm Video Research with Kanto Region audience share numbers hitting 12% for the night with the additional stat of 355,000 people sending the concurrent Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance to 5 billion yen ($52 million) in box office sales since its release.

Second, a news report has surfaced regarding the issue of people attending Eva screenings to record the film and subsequently uploading it to Chinese upload/P2P portals for download, going as far as to provide instructions on how to spot the recorders. This follows the movie apparently being leaked in Korea two days before its scheduled premiere because of the Chinese uploads.