Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese新世紀エヴァンゲリオンHepburnShinseiki Evangerion, lit. “New Century Gospel“) is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and animated by Tatsunoko, directed by Hideaki Anno and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. The cast included Megumi Ogata as Shinji IkariKotono Mitsuishi as Misato KatsuragiMegumi Hayashibara as Rei Ayanami, and Yūko Miyamura as Asuka Langley SoryuMusic for the series was composed by Shirō Sagisu.

Evangelion is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, particularly in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji, a teenage boy who was recruited by his father Gendo to the shadowy organization Nerv to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha named “Evangelion” into combat against beings known as “Angels“. The series explores the experiences and emotions of Evangelion pilots and members of Nerv as they try to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms. In the process, they are called upon to understand the ultimate causes of events and the motives for human action. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre and it features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology as well as Jewish and Christian mystical traditions, including Midrashic tales and Kabbalah. The psychoanalytic accounts of human behavior put forward by Freud and Jung are also prominently featured.

 

Neon Genesis Evangelion
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新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
(Shin Seiki Evangerion)
Genre
Manga

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