Evangelion Unit-01 Type CQB

Documented in the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA Visual Book, this configuration comes out of studies conducted three years ahead of the television series' events, when equipment for close quarters battle was researched to give NERV an advantageous position against the Mass Production Evangelions SEELE was expected to send. The concept assumes fighting inside a city, prizing rapid movement through urban terrain and clever use of the surroundings.

The horn and the weapon racks come off entirely. Emptying the shoulder pylons of their stored weapons frees space for cameras and sensors, which also go into the head. A new armor material, lighter and harder than the old plating and coated with Angel remains, allows the frame to project something resembling an A.T. Field of its own.

Armament consists of a matched pair of handguns fitted with bayonets, each cycling at 1,880 rounds per minute. The intended tactic is surgical: slice open the enemy's barrier with the field generated along the bayonet's blade, then fire through the resulting gap for a guaranteed hit.

None of it ever fights. Development priority shifts to the Type F equipment, and with SEELE's timetable for the Human Instrumentality Project running late, the CQB kit is shelved without a single sortie.

Shinji Ikari is listed as its pilot and Yui Ikari as its soul, matching the base Unit-01. Ikuto Yamashita produced the design, whose color separation closely resembles his original-color Revoltech Unit-01 figure sold through the Evangelion Store in late 2006.