To be fair, this is Evangelion. The fans will buy it simply because it is Evangelion - look at the dozens (dare I say hundreds?) of Rei and Auska figures that the fans keep on buying because they're Evangelion - and they don't care whether it's good just as long as it's Evangelion. Sales to the larger market are gravy.
(Pre-licensing of other anime is a problem, yes, but it doesn't apply here...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(Pre-licensing of other anime is a problem, yes, but it doesn't apply here...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012