STORY

There was no foreseeable warning before it happened--A catastrophe of unparalleled scale and magnitude overwhelmed the entire globe. This event, recorded in history as "The Second Impact," caused half the population of the Earth to perish and left behind vivid remnants of devastation at numerous locations around the world. Just when people finally felt that life would return to being more tranquil and mundane, a 14 year old boy--Shinji Ikari--was called out to Tokyo 3 by his father and waited for someone to greet him.

Just then, completely out of the blue, a huge walking life form emerged from behind a nearby mountain range and entered into his field of view! These giants where code named "Angels" but little was known about them. Desperate combat operations by the United Nations Armed Forces start immediately. The exchange of fire puts Shinji in peril, but his life was saved by a women who identified herself as Misato Katsuragi.

Shinji was driven to the headquarters of the special governmental agency NERV to meet his father, a first in 10 years. His father reveals to him a gigantic humanoid weapons system that NERV secretly developed, and then immediately orders Shinji to pilot this giant and fight against the Angel. This was Shinji's first encounter with the artificial human Evangelion Unit One.

While Shinji resisted at first, the sight of an injured female pilot--Rei Ayanami--was enough to make him decide he would not run away from this challenge and agrees to engage the enemy at hand.

Piloting the Eva Unit One without any training what so ever, Shinji confronts the Angel.

With the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, how will the 14 year old boy Shinji fight? And what is truth behind "The Human Instrumentality Project," an operation somehow related to the "Second Impact."

Gendō Ikari, a man who holds many answers to these questions, watches silently and attentively as his son fights a desperate battle…