In 2015, the Angels, massive, extremely powerful alien war machines, make a second appearance in Tokyo. Humanity’s only hope for survival lies in the Evangelion, a humanoid mecha developed by NERV, a special United Nations agency. The Evangelion can withstand almost anything the Angels can unleash, but only a handful of pilots can interface with it. These pilots are teenagers born fourteen years earlier, nine months after the first Angel attack. One of these teens is Shinji Ikari, whose father leads the NERV team responsible for creating and maintaining the Evangelion. Thrust into a maelstrom of battle and events that he does not…