Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion, also known as simply Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production, and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from October 1995 to March 1996.

Plot

In 2015, 15 years after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his estranged father Gendo Ikari, who is the director of the special paramilitary organization Nerv. Shinji witnesses United Nations forces battling a giant creature named Sachiel, one of a race of monstrous beings known as Angels whose awakening was foretold in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Because of the Angels' near-impenetrable force fields known as Absolute Terror Fields, or simply AT Fields, Nerv's Evangelion bio-mechanical mechas, which are synchronized to their pilots' nervous systems and possess their own force fields, are the only weapons capable of combating and destroying the Angels. Nerv officer Misato Katsuragi escorts Shinji into the Nerv complex beneath Tokyo-3, where Gendo pressures him into piloting Evangelion Unit-01 to fight the Angel. Without training, Shinji is unable to destroy it and Unit-01 suffers cranial damage. Because of the nervous system synchronization, Shinji is overwhelmed by the pain and loses consciousness, causing the Evangelion to go berserk and savagely kill the Angel on its own.

Juxtaposition

Neon Genesis Evangelion has juxtapositions with a Japanese internet subculture, Gachimuchi Pants Wrestling, through OtoMADs, edits of the episodes of the Evangelion characters talking through Gachimuchi audio files found through Nico Nico Douga, and bondage S/M, crucifixion gear thanks to films, Lords of the Lockerroom, thanks to Van Darkholme, and Fetish Sex Fights 1, thanks to Kyle Brandon and Steve Cannon. Mark Wolff, an otaku, loves Rei Ayanami dearly thanks to soramimi.

Songs in Nico Nico Douga medleys

Songs from the anime and films used in Neon Genesis Evangelion videos are commonly used in medleys.

• A Cruel Angel's Thesis - the opening to the 1995 anime series.
• Soul's Refrain - the ending used for the first film in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth.
• Komm, Süsser Tod - the ending used for the second film in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, The End of Evangelion.