>>1081763Considering that the last new physical design that JR Central made for regular passenger trains is the 313 Series EMU, which started rolling out in 1999 (the KiHa 25 DMU came out only a few years ago, but since it shared the same physical design so I will exclude that) I'm not particularly surprised.
[lolnospoiler] The recent pre-production set for JR Shikoku's 2600 Series DMU also looks in it is from the 2000s too [/lolnospoiler]
