Neon Genesis Evangelion [Volume 1] (English Language Version)

Gendo denies that an Angel ever invaded headquarters. At NERV, compatibility tests are being conducted between pilots and their machines. However, EVA- 00 begins polluting Shinji’s mind and goes berserk. It pounds away at the monitoring room as if unleashing a deep hatred. Is its target Rei, or…

As Misato struggles with unprocessed feelings towards her father and her ex, Ryoji, he treats her with kindness. However, Misato knows that while Ryoji is working for NERV, he is also spying on it. Ryoji leads Misato to Central Dogma. There, Misato witnesses...

The Twelfth Angel Leliel contains a complex space called a Dirac Sea within itself. Shinji lets his guard down and is sucked into the Angel along with EVA-01. Misato and the others plan his rescue from the outside. Will Shinji survive?

The second NERV branch in America and EVA-04 are destroyed during an S² Engine experiment. The activation experiment for EVA-03 will be performed at NERV headquarters in Japan. A newly specialized pilot has been chosen as Fourth Children. And the pilot is revealed to be…

EVA-03 arrives in Japan from the US, and Misato and the others head to Matsushiro to perform an activation experiment. After they begin the experiment EVA-03 goes berserk, an Angel has parasitized it. Gendo identifies EVA-03 as the Thirteenth Angel and directs Shinji and the others to destroy it.

Shinji decides to step down as an EVA pilot after becoming angry at his father. Just as he is leaving Tokyo-3, the Fourteenth Angel attacks. It overwhelms NERV headquarters with its incredible power and destroys EVA-02 and EVA- 00. Amongst the explosions and screams, Shinji meets a certain man.

Having reached a synchronization of 400% with EVA-01, Shinji does not emerge after the fighting. His body has fused with the LCL. What is it that “he” wants as he continues the conversation with himself? Ritsuko and the others plan a salvage operation to save Shinji.

SEELE, disturbed by Gendo’s arbitrary lead, kidnaps Fuyutsuki and interrogates him. Trapped in a state of confinement, Fuyutsuki remembers Yui and Gendo’s meeting in 1999 that could be called the catalyst of the Second Impact in 2000, and the birth of NERV

Asuka takes the shock of the unprecedented decrease in her synch rate harder than anyone else. Cruel memories of her childhood haunt her. With her own meaning for existing on the line, she attacks the encroaching Angel. However, her pride is completely shattered when EVA-02 remains silent.

Rei moves to intercept a newly encroaching Angel, but her body and mind are eroded. In order to save her, Gendo breaks the committee’s freeze order and activates EVA-01. However, Shinji is soon also infiltrated by the Angel. At that moment, Rei comes to her own decision.

A young man, Kaworu Nagisa, appears as the Fifth Children. He shows an affinity for Shinji. Shinji hesitates, but he senses that Kaworu is the only person he can truly talk to. However, Kaworu was an agent sent by SEELE. Shinji has to make a harsh choice.

Betrayed by those he believed in, Shinji looks into the depths of his own soul and questions his reason for existing. Is there any salvation for a young man who has rejected everything? Reality and the world are quickly shut away in the darkness of his heart...

Is filling in the gaps in one’s own heart the truth of the Human Instrumentality Project? Shinji floats in his own ego space and faces his fears. Wishing to find comfort for himself, he discovers the existence of a world of possibilities. What did Shinji see at the end of his soul journey?