AOBA (OFF):“We just got this report from the
patrolling battlecruiser Haruna.
"Huge submerged object detected off
Ki'i peninsula. Sending data."”
UrsusArctos: The Ki'i Peninsula is to the south-west of Hakone, as is Suruga bay where the Angel surfaces, which means it was walking a straight line up under the coast from the south-west to the north-east. (See additional comments about the Haruna)
Additional Commentary
UrsusArctos: Although the ADV dub and subtitles call the Haruna a "battlecruiser", the Japanese term used is jun'yokan, meaning "cruiser", as opposed to jun'yosenkan or literally "cruiser battleship" for a battlecruiser. The Netflix version corrects this. The really was a Kongo-class battlecruiser called the Haruna, sunk during the Second World War, and there has since been the helicopter destroyer Haruna which made it into service till 2009, although it's no battlecruiser. Since the largest vessels of the JMSDF, including their helicopter carriers, take on the name "escort ship"(goei-kan) in Japanese or "destroyer" in English to indicate a defensive role rather than an offensive one (as of early 2021), this suggests a genuine change in the status of Japan's maritime forces in this universe. Anno had stronger and more openly supportive feelings about the subject of Japanese militarism in Gunbuster in particular, but that seems to have been toned down significantly in Evangelion.
