Very Brief, Non-Spoiler Summary of Evangelion
At the beginning we meet Shinji Ikari. A young boy who seems very ignorant of everything around him. Soon he learns he must pilot one of the giant Evangelions. Mankind's fate rests on his hands. At the beginning we meet Shinji Ikari. A young boy who seems very ignorant of everything around him. Soon he learns he must pilot one of the giant Evangelions. Mankind's fate rests on his hands.
After defeating the third angel and getting out of the hospital, Lieutenant Misato Katsuragi is assigned as Shinji's guardian.
 
Shinji starts going to school where a boy named Toji Suzahara decides to get even at him for accidentally injuring his sister in the fight with Satchiel. Later they become friends after Shinji saves his life.
Shinji runs away from Tokyo-3 and Katsuragi only to return after a school mate and friend Aida Kensuke runs into him while on vacation.
 
Soon Shinji begins to ponder about what the other pilot, Rei Ayanami, is like. He learns about her prototype Evangelion (EVA-00) goning beserk. He and Ayanami then team up to defeat the fifth angel.
The earth's military defense force announce a prototype EVA that they believe can replace the current EVAs by using a nuclear reactor but after it goes out of control because of sabotage. Lukily the day is saved and Shinji, Misato, and Ritsuko return home.
The second child comes into picture and her name is Asuka Langley from Germany. She is spontaneous and upbeat. Along with Ryoji Kaji and not to her knowledge ADAM, they travel to Tokyo-3 only to be intercepted by an angel but with the combined help of the UN fleet Asuka and Shinji, inside of EVA-02 are able to defeat the angel.
The two of them are forced to bond after a humiliating defeat and must use a choreographed attack pattern based on music to defeat the angel only after having to dress alike in front of Toji, Kensuke, and Asuka's new friend Hikari.
NERV locates an angel inside a volcano and Gendo tells his second in command, Kozo Fuyutski, that this is the time to go on the offensive and attack an angel. Asuka tries to capture it only to be attacked by it and saved at the last minute by Shinji.
A power outage occurs in Tokyo-3 and NERV is included. After a hard effort by everyone including Gendo himself. The three children defeat a rather weak angel despite the complications.
Katsuragi starts to remember why she joined NERV meanwhile an angel attacks Tokyo-3 and almost destroys the city only to be thwaterd because of the great teamwork of the children.
The MAGI is being hacked by an angel only this time it is defeated nt by the EVAs but by Maya Ibuki and Ritsuko Akagi.

 


Rei and Shinji try each other's EVAs but when Shinji enter's Rei's the EVA beserks and it appears as though Rei's EVA tried to kill her.


 


Shinji and Gendo visit the grave of Yui Ikari. Meanwhile Misato gets royally drunk at a wedding and professes her love for Kaji and later he reveals that NERV has ADAM.
 
A shadow/black hole angel attacks Tokyo-3 and Shinji gets sucked in but the EVA beserks just as life support runs out and the angel is destroyed from the inside.

 


The fourth child is chosen and its Touji. Unfortunately the 13th angel takes control of EVA-03 and EVA-01 with the dummy plug destroys it and nearly kills Touji.

 


The fourteenth angel comes very close to destroying NERV and Shinji reaches 400% sync ratio. He is absorbed by the LCL but then returns.

 


Commander Fuyutski is kidnapped by Kaji and the events of the past about Gendo and Yui, Kozo and Dr. Nyako Akagi come to surface.

 
 


We finally get to get a view in Asuka's past after she is mentally raped by the fifteenth angel.

 


Rei sacrifices her life to save Shinji from being destroyed by the sixteenth angel.

 


We finally meet everyone's favorite minor character, Nagisa Kaworu, the seventeenth angel who alot of people think is gay. Is he coming out of the closet like Ellen?

 
 


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