Neon Genesis Evangelion is een Japanse animatieserie van de zender TV Tokyo. De serie ging in première op 4 oktober 1995.
In 2015 wordt Tokyo aangevallen door grote Angels, buitenaardse krachtige wezens. NERV heeft Evangelions, grote mensachtige robots om terug te vechten, gemaakt. Shinji Ikari is een van de tieners die een Evangelion kan besturen, hierbij wordt hij aan gevaren blootgesteld en moet zijn moed en kracht gebruiken om te overleven.
In a post-apocalyptic world, the last remaining human settlement in Japan is the heavily fortified city of Tokyo-3. Fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari is brought to the headquarters of Nerv, an underground organization lead by his estranged father, Gendou. He requests that Shinji become a pilot of an "Evangelion," a colossal android built to fight against monstrous and destructive alien creatures known as "Angels" that wreak havoc on the planet and threaten the survival of the remaining human race. Although initially reluctant, Shinji is swayed by the idea of reconciling with his father, and agrees to aid in mankind's perilous endeavor against its alien threat, as the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01. Thrust into the midst of a dangerous battlefield, Shinji must find the necessary courage and resolve to face against the Angels' incursions before it is too late.