Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance: Makinami Mari Illustrious

Was drinking coffee from the UCC Coffee can with the Mari print and found this Mari cosplay on Cosplay Holic.
This photo was contributed by Megane Complex to and was taken on the Winter Comiket 2009.

A short introduction on Makinami Mari Illustrious:
Mari Makinami Illustrious (真希波・マリ・イラストリアス) is an Eva pilot introduced in Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance. She is a stylized brunette with glasses and "twin tails".
Essentially no information has been provided about Mari thus far beyond her name and images of her. She is shown for a mere two cuts in the preview for 2.0 at the end of the first Rebuild movie. The "keywords" poster for 2.0 includes an exchange of dialogue between her and Shinji.

Mari is the pilot for Eva-05 as various illustrations show: a Sadamoto illustration has been released showing Mari in the "05" plugsuit; Mari has been identified as the helmeted pilot in the first theatrical trailer; Mari is depicted (in plugsuit) alongside Eva-05 for her UCC Coffee can illustration (see image); and the writeup for the Revoltech Eva-05 figure at the Kaiyodo Hobby Lobby states that the Eva is piloted by "new heroine Mari". A pilot designation has not yet been provided (assuming there is one).

Mari is also able to pilot Eva-02, and activates "the Beast" mode, which is speculated to be similar to an Eva going berserk. Her personality supposedly isn't one based on Anno's psyche, and she really enjoys piloting to kill the Angels. She is able to speak English fluently and seems to only interact with Shinji Ikari in terms of her fellow pilots. With Nerv, she appears to know Ryoji Kaji It's implied she's a spy for Nerv's American or European branches.

I then went on to Google on Mari cosplays and found more great cosplays.

Great cosplay posted on Anime Vice by jlrm01:

Credits:
Evangelion 2.0 site
Cosplay Holic
evageeks
Akino Blog
Anime Vice

UCC Coffee Evangelion Project

UCC UESHIMA COFFEE CO., LTD. (UCC) has been in business with the Evangelion Franchise for more than a decade and UCC coffee has been famous amongst anime fans around the world since their canned coffee was featured in the 1997 feature film The End of Evangelion. UCC created six coffee can designs featuring the Evangelion characters holding the company's products as a tie-in to that movie and subsequently became prized collector's items.

UCC Coffee decorated cans with Evangelion characters for the upcoming EVANGELION 2.0 movie, Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0, and just like for the 1.0 movies and they are sold with special barcodes affixed to the cans. The barcodes can be scanned by mobile phones to receive one of 12 mobile phone wallpapers and a chance to win a limited edition Asuka figure from UCC Coffee (1000 figures total) as well as one of five Puchi Eva UCC Coffee figures. The Puchi Eva figures feature Asuka in her yellow sundress, Rei, Shinji, and Kaworu in their school uniforms as well as a secret figure rumored to be the new character Mari Makinami.

The coffee cans are shipped randomly, with some designs being harder to get or have lesser of them per box (namely Asuka Langley Soryu). Thus making it somewhat similar to 'trading card game' (TCG).

I managed to buy a set of the six designs from my club (SP Japanese Cultural Club) and brought it home along with the cardboard box! I was initially hesitating whether to buy or not as I am a bit short for money to pay for my other stuffs but in the end I still grabbed all six. Thanks to the President of the club on buying cartons of the coffee! ^^

UCC Ueshima Coffee Co. (Wikipedia link)
UCC Coffee EVA
Akiba Blog
Cartoon Leap
EvaGeeks
Kotaku