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Neon Genesis Evangelion(TV show/series, 1995-1996)

Original title: "新世紀エヴァンゲリオン" (Japanese/JA)
FSK: 16+ years
| 25min per episode | Genres: Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Animation, Drama

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 26 episodes

Neon Genesis EvangelionRating: 4.3/5 (with 763 votes)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Hepburn: Shinseiki Evangerion, lit. 'New Century Evangelion' in Japanese and lit. 'New Beginning Gospel' in Greek), also known simply as Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax, animated by Tatsunoko, and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. Evangelion is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm called the Second Impact, particularly in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy recruited by his father Gendo to the mysterious organization Nerv to pilot a giant biomechanical mecha called an Evangelion and fight against beings known as Angels. The series explores the experiences and emotions of the Evangelion pilots and Nerv's members as they fight to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms. In the process, they are called upon to understand the ultimate cause of events and the motives behind human action. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre, and features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology as well as Jewish and Christian mysti... ()
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Duration: 24min
Genres: Japanisch / Action-Anime / Animeserien
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Awards & Nominations for Neon Genesis Evangelion

Animation Kobe Television Award

About Neon Genesis Evangelion

At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion Seasons and Episodes

10/04/1995Season 1 - 26 episodes
#1 | 10/04/1995Angel Attack
3.5/5 (with 20 votes)
Shinji Ikari is summoned to Tokyo-3 by his estranged father Gendo, commander of the special agency NERV, to defend the city from a giant Angel by piloting the only weapon capable of battling the monster: Evangelion Unit-01.
#2 | 10/11/1995The Beast
3.6/5 (with 20 votes)
Shinji wakes up in the hospital, with no memory of defeating the Angel the night before. Rejected by his father, Misato decides to take Shinji with her to live in her apartment. Later that night, memories of the battle against the Angel come flooding back to Shinji.
#3 | 10/18/1995A Transfer
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)
Shinji begins attending his new school in Tokyo-3, and has a difficult time dealing with the fame of being an Evangelion pilot. Touji Suzuhara, who's little sister was injured in Shinji's fight against the Angel, is angry at Shinji. A new Angel appears, and Shinji must once again pilot EVA-01 to defeat it.
#4 | 10/25/1995Hedgehog's Dilemma
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)
Misato is upset with Shinji for ignoring her orders in the last Angel battle, and he is so overcome by the stress of being an EVA pilot that he runs away. After wandering around Tokyo-3 for several days, Shinji is faced with the choice of quitting or staying in his new home.
#5 | 11/01/1995Rei I
3.9/5 (with 18 votes)
EVA-00 is finally repaired, and Shinji tries to get to know its enigmatic pilot, Rei Ayanami, better. However, he is confounded because she is extremely insular, has no friends at all, and the entire record of her past has been erased. In the midst of this, a very powerful Angel, the floating monolith Ramiel, attacks Tokyo-3.
#6 | 11/08/1995Rei II
3.7/5 (with 18 votes)
Continuing from the previous episode, the Angel Ramiel is drilling down into the GeoFront to attack NERV HQ directly. After Shinji barely survived a direct confrontation with it, Misato devises a plan to have EVA-00 and EVA-01 defeat the Angel by sniping it from a distance using a positronic rifle which requires the total electric output of Japan to power up.
#7 | 11/15/1995A Human Work
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)
Ritsuko briefs Shinji on the real nature of Second Impact, the Angels, and the Evangelions' mission to defeat them. Misato and Ritsuko attend the public demonstration of a new Angel-fighting robot, Jet Alone, built by a rival defense contractor to NERV. However, the nuclear-powered robot quickly runs out of control, and Shinji must use EVA Unit 01 to load Misato onto Jet Alone so she can she can enter in its automatic shutdown code, before it melts down in a nuclear explosion.
#8 | 11/22/1995Asuka Strikes!
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)
Misato brings Shinji, along with Touji and Kensuke, to a massive UN naval convoy transporting Evangelion Unit-02 and its fiery German pilot, Asuka Langley Souryuu, to Japan. Escorting Asuka is Misato's old boyfriend, Ryouji Kaji. After some awkward introductions and reunions, the fleet is attacked by a massive aquatic Angel. Asuka powers up Eva-02, and decides that she will defeat the Angel by playing "hopscotch"...
#9 | 11/29/1995Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!
3.8/5 (with 17 votes)
Asuka joins Shinji’s class at school, and moves in with Misato and him in their apartment. As Asuka adjusts to Japan (or rather, everyone else adapts to her...), a new Angel attacks which is capable of splitting itself into two identical copies. EVA-01 and EVA-02 are defeated, and NERV is publicly humiliated. With the Angel in a week-long regeneration period after an N² Mine attack by the JSSDF, Asuka and Shinji must learn to "synchronize" with each others movements combat, in order to defeat it once and for all.
#10 | 12/06/1995Magma Diver
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)
The EVA pilots are disappointed to find out that they are not allowed to go on their class trip to Okinawa, because they have to stay at Tokyo-3 to stay on-call in case of an Angel attack. Meanwhile, a new Angel is discovered in a chrysalis-like developmental stage deep within the magma of the volcano Mount Asama.
#11 | 12/13/1995The Day Tokyo-3 Stood Still
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)
Tokyo-3 comes to a standstill when sabotage knocks out all power, and the personnel must scramble to launch the EVAs manually when an Angel appears in the middle of the blackout.
#12 | 12/20/1995She said, 'Don't make others suffer for your personal hatred.'
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)
Misato has been promoted to Major, but the celebration does not last long. A monstrous Angel appears in Earth orbit right when Gendo and Fuyutsuki are away, leaving her and the children to deal with a colossal kamikaze threatening to drop itself right on top of Tokyo-3.
#13 | 12/27/1995Lilliputian Hitcher
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)
A routine test involving the EVA pilots turns into a struggle for survival when a wholly new type of Angel appears and spreads inside NERV HQ. This new, computer-like angel threatens to set off the self-destruct for the entire facility, leaving Dr. Ritsuko Akagi in a race against time to save the GeoFront and destroy the Angel.
#14 | 01/03/1996Weaving A Story (1)
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)
In the first half of the episode, a clip show is presented to the Human Instrumentality Committee of Seele, reviewing the attacks of all Angels up to this point. The second part includes a poem in which Rei contemplates her own existence, and a cross-compatibility test between Rei's and Shinji's EVAs.
#15 | 01/10/1996Those Women Longed for the Touch of Others' Lips, and Thus Invited Their Kisses.
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)
It seems like it's an important day for nearly everyone at NERV. Misato and Ritsuko are going to a wedding; Shinji and Gendo are visiting Yui's grave; Asuka has a date. However, important things will spring from these seemingly mundane events.
#16 | 01/17/1996Splitting of the Breast
3.9/5 (with 15 votes)
Shinji beats Asuka in a synch test, much to her annoyance. Not too long after, the EVAs are dispatched to deal with a mysterious apparition, and EVA-01 is sucked into a shadowlike blackness that materializes out of nothingness from under it. While an emergency operation to rescue the captured EVA is concocted, Shinji goes on a trip into the depths of his own consciousness...
#17 | 01/24/1996Fourth Children
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)
A NERV branch in Nevada is obliterated in a catastrophic accident, and NERV headquarters prepares to station a new Evangelion in Japan. The Fourth Child is selected, unbeknownst to Shinji.
#18 | 01/31/1996Ambivalence
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)
Evangelion Unit-03 arrives from the United States. However, its activation experiment brings out NERV's worst nightmare when it turns out to have been infected by the Thirteenth Angel. The other EVAs are dispatched to battle the Angel-infected abomination... even at the risk of killing its helpless pilot.
#19 | 02/07/1996Introjection
3.8/5 (with 15 votes)
Enraged over Touji's near-death at the hands of his own EVA, Shinji refuses to pilot an Evangelion again and prepares to leave Tokyo-3 for good. He is forced to reconsider that decision when an immensely destructive new Angel attacks just as he is about to leave...
#20 | 02/14/1996Weaving A Story (2): Oral Stage
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)
Shinji achieved an unprecedented 400% synchronization ratio with EVA-01 during the battle with Zeruel, to horrible effect. With the EVA having ascended to the status of a living God and Shinji absorbed inside it, Ritsuko unsuccessfully attempts to recover him.
#21 | 02/21/1996He Was Aware that He Was Still a Child.
3.8/5 (with 15 votes)
Kouzou Fuyutsuki is kidnapped and interrogated by Seele, who are horrified over the results of the last encounter with an Angel. He recounts his past, providing flashbacks into the creation of Nerv. The pasts of Misato Katsuragi, Ritsuko Akagi, Rei Ayanami and Yui Ikari are also revealed. Ryouji Kaji, meanwhile, decides to find out the truth, no matter the cost.
#22 | 02/28/1996Don't Be.
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)
Asuka's synch rate is on a downward spiral after her defeat at the hands of the Fourteenth Angel, Zeruel, and her frustration with Rei, Shinji, Misato and Ryouji is on the rise. Angrier and more disturbed than ever, she is forced to relive her dark, traumatic past during the encounter with the Fifteenth Angel, Arael.
#23 | 03/06/1996Rei III
3.8/5 (with 15 votes)
Asuka sinks into deep depression after Arael's mental probing, and is unable to pilot when the new Angel Armisael arrives. Armisael begins physically fusing with EVA-00 and threatens to do the same to EVA-01, prompting Rei to sacrifice herself to save Shinji, only to appear alive soon afterwards.
#24 | 03/13/1996The Beginning and the End, or 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)
Too frightened to face Misato or Rei, Shinji runs away yet again, only to meet and strike a friendship with Kaworu Nagisa, the replacement pilot for EVA-02. Kaworu's openness and friendliness provide much-needed comfort for the disturbed Shinji. However, suspicions abound over Kaworu's incredible synchronization abilities.
#25 | 03/20/1996Do You Love Me?
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)
Instrumentality has begun, and now its inner process, the joining of all souls into one, will be depicted. The episode is primarily driven by dialogue, the background usually complete darkness. White text often appears on a black screen, an omniscient voice questioning the characters.
#26 | 03/27/1996Take Care of Yourself.
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)
Instrumentality continues. The focus is primarily on Shinji now, as he learns to accept the individual’s ability to shape their world, and how the self cannot exist without others to define it.

Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Made by: Gainax
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 23 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 10/04/1995
Last episode released on: 03/27/1996
Appearing Characters: Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Soryu, Rei Ayanami, Misato Katsuragi, Gendo Ikari, Kensuke Aida, Tōji Suzuhara, Kaworu Nagisa, Ritsuko Akagi, Hikari Horaki, Maya Ibuki, Ryōji Kaji, Yui Ikari, Pen Pen, Makoto Hyūga, Shigeru Aoba, Kōzō Fuyutsuki, Naoko Akagi, Keel Lorenz
Creator: Hideaki Anno, Gainax
Director: Hideaki Anno
Producer: Akiko Odawara, Yutaka Sugiyama
Composer: Shirō Sagisu
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Евангелион"
"EVA"
"新世紀福音戰士"
"נאון בריאת אוונגליון"
"Shin Seiki Evangerion"
"Shinseiki Evangelion"
"新世紀エヴァンゲリオン:1995"
"Евангелион нового поколения"
"Gospel of a New Century"
"New Century Evangelion"

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