Casio G-Shock GAC-110-6AJF Evangelion Unit-01 Purple JDM Japan

Layer 1: Era Anchor

1995. Studio Gainax. Tokyo.

Neon Genesis Evangelion aired in October and immediately violated every expectation of what a mecha anime could be. The Evangelions were not robots. They were organisms in armor — biological entities, partially awakened, piloted by teenagers who were never meant to handle what they were carrying.

Unit-01 was the first. Purple armor, green stripes on the arms. A design supervised by Ikuto Yamashita, whose mechanical engineering background gave the Evangelions a weight and specificity that anime mecha had never quite achieved before.

Thirty years later, the G-Shock × Evangelion collaboration continues because the people who were fourteen in 1995 are now in their late thirties and forties, and they haven't stopped. And the people who encountered Evangelion in their twenties through Netflix, through Rebuild, through any of the entry points that opened since — they haven't stopped either.

The GAC-110-6AJF is the precise purple and green of Unit-01. That is its entire design brief. That was enough.

Layer 2: Object Biography

Reference: GAC-110-6AJF. Japan Domestic Market. G-Shock GA-110 / GAC-110 series base.

The GA-110 chassis: 51.2mm wide, 16.9mm thick, 55mm lug-to-lug. 200m water resistance. Mineral crystal. Casio Module 5146. Functions: time, world time, stopwatch, countdown timer, alarm, auto-calendar. Analog-digital configuration — large analog hands over a digital subdial.

Colorway: Unit-01 purple resin case and band. Green accents on subdial markers and case details — the exact hue of Unit-01's arm stripes. The color assignment was not approximate; this is a licensed collaboration, not a fan accessory.

Japan-only distribution. The GAC-110-6AJF was not part of any global G-Shock release calendar.

Layer 3: Collector Connection

There is a specific kind of collector who owns both watch boxes and manga shelves, and who does not see a contradiction there.

The Evangelion × G-Shock collaboration has been running in various forms since the early 2000s. Casio does not produce these for export markets — they are made for the domestic anime and watch collector intersection, which in Japan is a real and substantial community. When units exit Japan, they do so through individual importers, not distribution channels.

The GAC-110 is not the 30th anniversary edition with the elaborate box and Spear of Longinus imagery. It is the earlier, quieter version — just the colors. Unit-01's colors on a working G-Shock. No packaging theater. The watch itself is the statement.

For collectors who know what the purple and green mean, no explanation is required. For collectors who are just beginning to understand the depth of Japan's anime × craft object intersection, this is one of the clearest entry points available.

What was the first G-Shock you connected with — and why?