In the year 2000, a catastrophic event known as the Second Impact wiped out
half the world's population and melted all the ice in Antarctica. According to the UN, it was a giant meteorite, but there were many rumors that said otherwise.
It is now year 2015. Mysterious entities called Angels started to appear, causing mayhem to the remaining population. All conventional weapons proved useless against them, including the UN's key weapon, the N2 bomb, because a mysterious field protects the Angels.

The only weapon that can penetrate this mysterious field, are biological gaints who obtain simular field, they are the Evangelions. These gaints requires the control of a pilot by synchronizing the pilot's mind within. Thus, the pilot's senses extend into the Evangelions. Only a select group of children born after the Second Impact have the capability to synch with the Evangelions. They are destined to protect humanity from the very beginning....

 

What is it?

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shinseiki Evangelion) is Anno Hideaki's greatest creation, which caused a major impact to the Anime world. It began as a TV-Series developed and found its way to the movies, the comic books, games, albums and even live concerts were held in desperate demands of millions of fans around the world.

 

Why is it so successful?

At your first glance, Evangelion may just seems to be another sci-fi story, but there is much more than that. The characters have profound personalities, who faces everyday problems as anyone else and concern themselves with philosophical / religious themes. In fact, the whole Evangelion project deals with the existence of mankind and its evolution.

"Humans, will never completely drive sadness away. you can forget sadness for a while if you interact and that makes life worth living."

 

What makes it so interesting?

Evangelion is valued by many fans by its plot, which hosts connections to metaphysical and religious theories, ancient prophecies and supernatural mysteries. Even the fundamental basics of reality lose their value. God and Creation are viewed from an never before seen angle, implying man's attempts to become god himself. Evangelion is a very unique creation, which made a name even among people who usually do not watch anime.

 

Prologue of Evangelion

The year is 2015, Mankind had suffered a disastrous fate when being attacked by mysterious beings called the "Angels". Half of earth's population vanished in a fatal flood caused by the first angel attack. To save what is left of the world, a mysterious agency called NERV is founded and begins to develop bio-mechanical gaints called Evangelions to deal with the Angel threat.

Those Evangelions strangely enough can only be piloted by a hand-full of teenagers each of whom were born exactly 9 months after the first angel's attack. The fate of earth seems to have landed on those children, wether they were chosen by biblical prophecy or are just unexpected saviors.