CHARACTERS

Shinji Ikari (Voiced by Megumi Ogata)
The 14 year old boy and central protagonist in this work. Shinji is the pilot to Evangelion Unit One marked by a introspective personality and hopes to be valued by those around him through his efforts at fighting the Angels.

Rei Ayanami (Voiced by Megumi Hayashibara)
A young girl who rarely shows her emotions, Rei's statements are usually short and abrupt. She has undergone extensive training as the pilot for the Eva Unit Zero. All records of her past have been erased and she gives off the impression of being artificial somehow.

Misato Katsuragi (Voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi)
The operations chief of Nerv. To a certain degree, Misato plays the part of Shinji's parental guardian. While she usually puts on an optimist persona, it is a small part of her personality.

Ritsuko Akagi (Voiced by Yuriko Yamaguchi)
The director of Eva development and maintenance. Ritsuko's personality of placing high emphasis on rationality and efficiency reflects her career as a scientist. Due to their respective roles, there are time when Ritsuko and Misato might be in conflict over a given issue.

Gendō Ikari (Voiced by Fumihiko Tachiki)
The supreme commander of special governmental agency Nerv. Gendō is in fact Shinji's father, but the extremes to which he places importance on accomplishing the mission causes him to come across as being cruel and distant.

Kōzou Fuyutsuski (Voiced by Motomu Kiyokawa)
Deputy commander of Nerv. As Gendō's confidant, Fuyutsuki's relationship to Gendō is on equal terms.

Tōji Suzuhara (Voiced by Tomokazu Seki)
Shinji's classmate in Tokyo 3's Junior High School No.1. They both are in Class A, 8 th Grade. A boy with a strong sense of right and wrong that initially steered him to despise Shinji, over the course of time of watching Shinji fight desperate battles against the Angels, Tōji comes to see Shinji as a true friend.

Kensuke Aihara (Voiced by Tetsuya Iwanaga)
Shinji's classmate in school. Tōji's best friend and mil-tech geek. He knows a lot of the going-on's at Nerv thanks to the fact that his father is employed there.

Hikari Horaki (Voiced by Jyunko Iwao)
The class president of Shinji's class. A girl forthright and honest to a fault, her stickler personality leads her to often chide upon Tōji and his friends.

NERV
A special governmental agency directly subordinate to the United Nations. Their primary mission is to keep Evangelions ready in order to defeat the Angels. The headquarters is located in Tokyo 3 with Gendō Ikari at the helm as its commander. The organization has numerous branch offices around the world.

Seele
The secret organization that administers and commands over the Nerv behind the scenes. The group clandestinely manipulates the world's economic system as well as its political institutions, including the United Nations.

Tokyo 3 (Three)
The main backdrop in the world of Evangelion , this city--busy with continual construction and expansion--is located on the shores of Lake Ashinoko . While the city is touted as being the future capital of Japan , in reality this is a façade maintained for a city whose real purpose is to be a fortified metropolis that would act as the vanguard against the assaulting Angels. Nerv headquarters is located in a underground cavern located below Tokyo 3.

Angels
The generalized term employed to describe hostile life forms that attack upon Nerv headquarters located in Japan . Their fighting capabilities and origins are all shrouded in mystery. Angels are equipped with a unique defense mechanism called the AT Field, a force field like barrier that cannot be penetrated by conventional ordnance. Only the Evangelions, equipped the AT Field, can neutralize the Angels' AT Field and effectively strike against them.

Human Instrumentality Project
A mysterious project being pushed through by Seele. It appears the project is not directly tied to the needs related to defeating the Angels, and in fact the project has something to do with accelerating the transition of humanity toward a new evolutionary phase…

Evangelion
Large humanoid weapons systems that humanity poured tremendous resources into realizing, the Eva's are the only effective defensive means against the attacking Angels. The official designation of the Eva's is "Multipurpose Humanoid Decisive Combat Weapons System Artificial Human Evangelion." Eva's are comprised of a organic humanoid frame covered in armor. The name is based on the Greek word euangelion meaning gospel in English.