Sorry to go slightly off-topic but I'd think people reading this thread are more likely to know about this figure I am trying to identify.
While going through my collection, I unsealed a box of Eva figures made by Kaiyodo - these predate the Revoltech figures, they're pretty big, originally come on blister packs but was later repackaged in "cube" style plastic boxes, Diamond Comics used to distribute these in the US and even got their own glow-in-the-dark Eva-01 made as a Comic Con exclusive - and found one that was an all-black version of Eva-00 among a bunch of "crystal" variants. While the "metallic" and "crystal" (molded in see-thru plastic colored with the Eva's primary color) variants were well known and widely distributed from this line, I am having a hard time remembering any details about this solid-black Eva-00 other than vaguely remembering this was some kind of store or con exclusive only available in Japan, might have bought it from Hajime at Frank & Sons back in the late 1990s or early 2000s but it's been so long i can't recall.
Googling yielded no results whatsoever other than my Frank & Sons thread here (LOL). Does anyone by chance know anything about this black Eva-00 figure from Kaiyodo?