In this post, we take a closer look at the current status of the series “Shinseiki Evangelion”, also known by the following titles:
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
- NGE
- Evangelion (1995)
Status#
Based on our analysis, the series is FINISHED. ✅
Here’s how we reached that conclusion:
- All related entries are marked as finished on MyAnimeList
- The series is listed as ended on Trakt
These sources consistently confirm that the main story of Shinseiki Evangelion has been fully concluded.
Watch order#
Shinseiki Evangelion ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
Summary
In 1999, a meteorite crashed into Antarctica. The impact melted the continental ice mass and drastically raised sea levels, damaging the world's climate and causing the deaths of over half its population. Now in 2015, devastating creatures of unknown origin—referred to as Angels—ravage what remains of the planet.In the heavily fortified city of Tokyo-3, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari is destined to halt the Angels’ onslaught. Recruited by his father’s secret organization, NERV, Shinji is enlisted as a pilot of an Evangelion, a massive bioorganic android created solely to defeat the Angels.
Suddenly with the weight of the world upon his shoulders, Shinji must find the courage and drive to stand up for the future—and himself. But as skirmishes between the Evangelions and Angels become recurrent, the horrifying truth of the world is slowly revealed.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Shinseiki Evangelion was initially serialized in Shounen Ace but moved to Young Ace on July 7, 2009. Although it was set to be released just shortly before the anime series began airing, production delays pushed the anime's airing date to 10 months later. The series was published in English as Neon Genesis Evangelion by VIZ Media from December 1998 to May 2003 for seven volumes. The publisher rereleased the manga under the Action imprint from February 25, 2004, to February 10, 2015, and in 3-in-1 omnibus volumes from November 13, 2012, to June 14, 2016. It was also released in Spanish by Norma Editorial from May 2003 to January 2015; in Brazilian Portuguese by Editora JBC from November 2001 to December 2014; and in Italian by Panini Comics from October 18, 2001, to November 22, 2014.
Shinseiki Evangelion ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
Summary
Fifteen years after a cataclysmic event known as the Second Impact, the world faces a new threat: monstrous celestial beings called Angels invade Tokyo-3 one by one. Mankind is unable to defend themselves against the Angels despite utilizing their most advanced munitions and military tactics. The only hope for human salvation rests in the hands of NERV, a mysterious organization led by the cold Gendou Ikari. NERV operates giant humanoid robots dubbed "Evangelions" to combat the Angels with state-of-the-art advanced weaponry and protective barriers known as Absolute Terror Fields.Years after being abandoned by his father, Shinji Ikari, Gendou’s 14-year-old son, returns to Tokyo-3. Shinji undergoes a perpetual internal battle against the deeply buried trauma caused by the loss of his mother and the emotional neglect he suffered at the hands of his father. Terrified to open himself up to another, Shinji’s life is forever changed upon meeting 29-year-old Misato Katsuragi, a high-ranking NERV officer who shows him a free-spirited maternal kindness he has never experienced.
A devastating Angel attack forces Shinji into action as Gendou reveals his true motive for inviting his son back to Tokyo-3: Shinji is the only child capable of efficiently piloting Evangelion Unit-01, a new robot that synchronizes with his biometrics. Despite the brutal psychological trauma brought about by piloting an Evangelion, Shinji defends Tokyo-3 against the angelic threat, oblivious to his father’s dark machinations.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Director Hideaki Anno's depression is what led to the dark themes of Shinseiki Evangelion. Budgetary problems and parental complaints about content led to the original ending being scrapped and replaced with an extremely limited-animation ending breaking from the main plot. A movie, Air/Magokoro wo, Kimi ni, was later made based in part on the original planned ending and in part on Anno's increasing frustration with the otaku fanbase. The series' mix of psychoanalysis, religious symbolism, and genre deconstruction proved extremely influential on mature anime in the late '90s onward. The Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 ranked it as the most popular anime of all time.
Shinseiki Evangelion Movie: Shi to Shinsei ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 シト新生
Summary
In the year 2015, more than a decade has passed since the catastrophic event known as Second Impact befell mankind. During this time of recovery, a select few learned of beings known as the Angels—colossal malevolent entities with the intention of triggering the Third Impact and wiping out the rest of humanity.Called into the city of Tokyo-3 by his father Gendou Ikari, teenager Shinji is thrust headlong into humanity’s struggle. Separated from Gendou since the death of his mother, Shinji presumes that his father wishes to repair their shattered familial bonds; instead, he discovers that he was brought to pilot a giant machine capable of fighting the Angels, Evangelion Unit-01. Forced to battle against wave after wave of mankind’s greatest threat, the young boy finds himself caught in the middle of a plan that could affect the future of humanity forever.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Death and Rebirth is a highly condensed re-edit of the series (Death) plus the first half of The End of Evangelion (Rebirth).
Shinseiki Evangelion Movie: Air/Magokoro wo, Kimi ni ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 Air / まごころを, 君に
Summary
Shinji Ikari is left emotionally comatose after the death of a dear friend. With his son mentally unable to pilot the humanoid robot Evangelion Unit-01, Gendou Ikari's NERV races against the shadow organization SEELE to see who can enact their ultimate plan first. SEELE desires to create a godlike being by fusing their own souls into an Evangelion unit, while Gendou wishes to revert all of humanity into one primordial being so that he can be reunited with Yui, his deceased wife.SEELE unleashes its military forces in a lethal invasion of NERV headquarters. As SEELE’s forces cut down NERV’s scientists and security personnel, Asuka Langley Souryuu pilots Evangelion Unit-02 in a desperate last stand against SEELE’s heaviest weaponry.
The battle rages on, and a depressed Shinji hides deep within NERV’s headquarters. With the fate of the world resting in Shinji’s hands, Captain Misato Katsuragi hunts for the teenage boy as society crumbles around them.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Shinseiki Evangelion Movie: Air/Magokoro wo, Kimi ni is an alternate version of the series ending, which either supplements or replaces episodes 25 and 26, depending on how they are viewed. The movie was awarded the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for 1997, the Japan Academy Prize for Biggest Public Sensation of the Year, and Special Audience Choice Award by the 1997 Animation Kobe.
Shinseiki Evangelion: Koutetsu no Girlfriend 2nd ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 鋼鉄のガールフレンド2nd
Summary
Enjoying a peaceful life in New-Tokyo 3, high school student Shinji Ikari spends the days with his close-knit group of friends, consisting of his pushy childhood friend Asuka Langley Souryuu; slackers Touji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida; student president Hikari Horaki; and the eloquent oddity Kaworu Nagisa. However, the arrival of bubbly transfer student Rei Ayanami shakes up the group's status quo, causing a web of love triangles, crushes, and confessions to come bursting forth. Yet the complex state of their relationships becomes the least of their worries when United Nations agency NERV recruits them for experiments shrouded in mystery. As NERV continues to impede on the students' lives, Shinji and his friends are set on an irreversible path, with their angelic days long behind them.An alternate retelling of a classic anime series, Shinseiki Evangelion: Koutetsu no Girlfriend 2nd reinvents these characters as normal students in a world vastly different from the one presented in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Shinseiki Evangelion: Koutetsu no Girlfriend 2nd is based on Gainax's . While the first four volumes are an adaptation of the game, the final two are exclusive stories based on the characters in the game. The series was published in English as Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days by ADV Manga from May 16, 2006 to August 21, 2007.
Shinseiki Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 碇シンジ育成計画
Summary
Stunning, hotheaded Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always sort of assumed they'd stay together-until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami showed up in class! When Shinji starts to get curious about Rei, Asuka needs to figure out if she wants to be just friends with Shinji, or something more. But why are so many people keeping an eye on these relationships-people like homeroom teacher Misato, school nurse Ritsuko, and Shinji's mother-NERV's chief scientist, Yui Ikari...?(Source: Dark Horse)
Background
Shinseiki Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku was published in English as Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project by Dark Horse Comics from July 8, 2009, to August 29, 2018, and as 3-in-1 omnibus volumes from August 17, 2016, to January 18, 2023.
Petit Eva: Evangelion@School ↗ ↖
Puchi Eva
Summary
"The Bandai Channel website announced that Petit Eva ~Evangelion@School~, the "first official super-deformed series" based on Neon Genesis Evangelion, will be adapted for video. The official announcement will be made in the September issue (on sale August 10) of Newtype magazine in Japan. The Gainax/Khara franchise spinoff spoofs the psychological science fiction drama by reimagining the characters as classmates in Tokyo-3's Nerv School, headed by Principal Gendō Ikari and Misato-sensei. The student body includes three different Rei "sisters," the EVA-01 mobile weapon reimagined as the school bully Evanchō, and the ill-fated Jet Alone robot as JA-ko, a "hidden character" in the form of a shy android girl.Ryuusuke Hamamoto created the character designs which has inspired four-panel gag manga serializations in four different magazines: Monthly Shōnen Ace, Newtype, Dengeki Hobby Magazine, and Figure Oh. The Petit Eva project has also developed merchandising from super-deformed figurines to limited edition Doritos corn chips."
(Source: MoonPhase)
Petit Eva: Evangelion@School ↗ ↖
Petit Eva First
Summary
The series is the "first official super-deformed series" based on Neon Genesis Evangelion. The Gainax/Khara franchise spin-off spoofs the psychological science fiction drama by reimagining the characters as classmates in Tokyo-3's Nerv School, headed by Principal Gendou Ikari and Misato-sensei. The student body includes three different Rei "sisters," the EVA-01 mobile weapon reimagined as the school bully Evanchou, and the ill-fated Jet Alone robot as JA-ko, a "hidden character" in the form of a shy android girl.
Shinseiki Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 学園堕天録
Summary
Shinji Ikari yearns for excitement to transform his boring day-to-day life as a student at the NERV Foundation Academy. His wish is granted when he witnesses an explosive battle between two teenagers and an older man with great wings extending from his back. Shinji recognizes these two teenagers as his classmates: his crush Rei Ayanami and new transfer student Kaworu Nagisa.During the encounter, Shinji unwittingly releases a power that appears to vanquish the winged man; in future instances, his power takes the form of a gun-like EVA, a weapon manifested from his will to survive. He learns that the beings his classmates combat are known as Angels, transient forms of consciousness that take possession of human bodies because they lack physical forms of their own. Cooperating with his two classmates—and later joined by foreign transfer student Asuka Langley Souryuu—Shinji agrees to fight against the Angels who plague his town.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
A spin-off of the landmark anime Neon Genesis Evangelion that reimagines Shinji and his companions as vigilante students who spend their nights patrolling for zombie-like versions of the Angels from the original series. The plot remains mostly true to the source material. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse was published in English by Dark Horse from September 14, 2010 to July 5, 2011, and in a complete omnibus on April 26, 2016.
Evangelion Movie 1: Jo ↗ ↖
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序
Summary
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.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
1.01: An additional 266 enhancements from 1.0. 1.11: 2 minutes longer than 1.0 and 1.01 and created by processing the master digital data instead of the 35mm film. In 2007, the film was awarded the DCAJ Chairperson Award during the 22nd Digital Contents Grand Prix. In 2008, the film won the Tokyo International Anime Fair award for anime of the year (with Hideaki Anno receiving the best director award for it), the Toukaimura Genpachi Award at the 7th Annual Japanese Otaku Awards and the Theatrical Film Award at the 13th Animation Kobe Awards.
Petit Eva Bokura Tanken Doukoukai ↗ ↖
Summary
Alternative version of Petit Eva.
Evangelion: ANIMA ↗ ↖
エヴァンゲリオン ANIMA
Summary
Three years after Shinji Ikari prevented Third Impact during the Battle at NERV HQ, the Earth is at peace once more. NERV has been reorganized under the command of Misato Katsuragi, and Shinji leads the EVA team with the help of his friends Asuka Langley Souryuu and Rei Ayanami. Advancements in technology have led the organization to upgrade its Evangelions, and three Series-0.0 units have been placed into low Earth orbit to watch over the planet.Just as NERV is on the verge of upgrading Shinji’s Unit-01 Type-F, one of the Unit-0.0s goes out of control and crashes near Tokyo-3. Soon after, NERV is attacked by a mysterious Angel Carrier—an oddly modified Mass Production Evangelion. It is now up to Shinji, Asuka, and Rei to stop this attack and identify their mysterious new enemy.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Evangelion: ANIMA, written by Evangelion mecha designer Ikuto Yamashita, presents an alternate universe look at the world of Neon Genesis Evangelion if Shinji had stopped Third Impact during End of Evangelion. The series was published digitally in English as Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA by Seven Seas Entertainment under the Airship imprint from August 22, 2019 to June 24, 2021, and in print from October 29, 2019 to August 3, 2021.
Evangelion Movie 2: Ha ↗ ↖
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破
Summary
When the threat of the Angel menace escalates, mankind's defense force is pushed to its limits, with NERV at the forefront of the struggle. Shinji Ikari and his partner Rei Ayanami are assisted by two new pilots: the fiery Asuka Langley Shikinami and the mysterious Mari Illustrious Makinami.With the aid of their mechanized Evangelion units, equipped with weapons perfect for engaging their monstrous opponents, the four young souls fight desperately to protect their loved ones and prevent an impending apocalypse. But when startling secrets are brought to light, will the heroes’ greatest challenge prove to be the monsters…or humanity itself?
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Evangelion Movie 2: Ha won first place in the animation category of the French Lyon Asian Film Festival, narrowly beating Symphony in August in an audience vote. It also won the Award of Excellence in the animation category at the 33rd Japan Academy Awards and, consequently, nominated for Animation of the Year at the same event in 2010.
Shinseiki Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Tantei Nikki ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 碇シンジ探偵日記
Summary
When even a tough dude like his school pal Toji is getting menaced by gangsters, a nice guy like Shinji Ikari feels obliged to seek out the local private eye, Ryoji Kaji, and his striking young assistant, Kaworu Nagisa. Somehow, though, Shinji gets drafted into solving the case himself, with Kaworu's help—although Kaworu quickly proves to be a mystery of his own...(Source: Dark Horse)
Background
Shinseiki Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Tantei Nikki was published in English as Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Detective Diary by Dark Horse from September 17, 2013 to May 27, 2014.
Tony Takezaki no Evangelion ↗ ↖
トニーたけざきのエヴァンゲリオン
Summary
Neon Genesis Evangelion's official parody manga.Background
Tony Takezaki no Evangelion was published in English as Tony Takezaki's Neon Genesis Evangelion by Dark Horse on June 9, 2015.
Evangelion Movie 3: Q ↗ ↖
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q
Summary
Fourteen years after the Third Impact, the Earth is a post-apocalyptic wasteland, human civilization is in ruins, and the people Shinji Ikari knows are almost unrecognizable. Trapped inside Evangelion Unit-01, he is recovered from space by Asuka Langley Shikinami and Mari Illustrious Makinami, only to find himself a prisoner of WILLE, a military faction led by his former guardian Misato Katsuragi. Cold and bitter, his former allies view him with suspicion and refuse to support him as he comes to terms with the consequences of his actions.A hurt and confused Shinji is rescued from WILLE by Rei Ayanami and returned to NERV headquarters. There, he meets and quickly befriends the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa, who offers him warmth and insight into the state of NERV’s war with the Angels. But Shinji and Kaworu’s brief respite lies on the eve of a new battle, one in which Shinji finds that his enemies are no longer Angels but former comrades. In this bitter confrontation to determine the future of the world, Shinji will learn first-hand that the past truly cannot be undone.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Evangelion Movie 3: Q earned Japan's second-highest weekend box office of 2012 with 1,1 billion yen. The film subsequently grossed the equivalent of over 6 billion yen at box office. The film won the Award of Excellence in the animation category at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival.
Shinseiki Evangelion: Pikopiko Chuugakusei Densetsu ↗ ↖
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン ピコピコ中学生伝説
Summary
Mysterious invaders are threatening Earth...so recruit a group of elite schoolkids to play video games that secretly train them for the real fight that lies ahead! Does this plan sound familiar? Well, they'd better get a new plan, because the elite schoolkids are Shinji, Rei, Asuka, and Kaworu, and they're too busy playing games to ever get in the fricking robot!(Source: Dark Horse Comics)
Background
Shinseiki Evangelion: Pikopiko Chuugakusei Densetsu has been published in English as Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko Piko Middle School Students by Dark Horse Comics since May 23, 2017.
Shin Evangelion Movie:|| ↗ ↖
シン・エヴァンゲリオン劇場版𝄇
Summary
Following NERV's failed attempt to retrieve the Spears of Longinus and carry out the Human Instrumentality Project, the destruction caused by the Fourth Impact has been largely averted. In a state of disarray, Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Shikinami, and Rei Ayanami travel to Village 3—a survivor settlement free from Earth's ruination. There, Shinji slowly comes to terms with his past, developing an entirely different life from his days as an Evangelion pilot.Meanwhile, NERV makes preparations to continue the Instrumentality Project by means of a new Impact. When WILLE’s main aerial battleship arrives at the village, Shinji decides to board, believing that he can help by piloting an Evangelion. As new secrets are uncovered and a battle between WILLE and NERV approaches, the future of Earth hangs in the balance. Can Shinji save humanity and the rest of the world one last time?
[Written by MAL Rewrite]