One hockey documentary produced for the Olympics haws resurfaced and gone viral with anime fans for its surprising Neon Genesis Evangelion inspired opening! Released back in 2018, The Nagano Tapes: Rewound, Replayed & Reviewed was written and directed by Ondřej Hudeček (with Jon Weinbach also sharing a writing credit). Apparently it’s been hiding a huge shout out to the world of anime for the past three years right under everyone’s nose. But as anime fans have started to latch onto the documentary in the past week, the surprise goes even further because of how overall dedicated it is to its tribute.

ripped it so you don’t have to watch it on the Olympic channel because lmaooooooo

get in the hockey rink, Shinji https://t.co/gytZS67WGe pic.twitter.com/PyhMdqTnEI

It took me 3 years, but I finally made Anime Twitter go nuts. pic.twitter.com/DVd7LP5e4y