Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a 1995 anime series directed by Hideaki Anno.

Plot
It's 2015, decades after a cataclysm called Second Impact almost destroyed humanity, and beings called Angels are returning to attack Earth. An agency called NERV, commanded by Gendo Ikari, has created mechas called "Evangelion" to defeat these Angels.

14 year old Shinji Ikari is chosen by his father to pilot Evangelion Unit 01. Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley Soryu are also chosen to pilot these machines. Shinji and his friends must try to save humanity. As the series progresses, many secrets about the Evangelions, Angels and NERV are revealed.

Characters

 * Asuka Langley Soryu
 * Gendo Ikari
 * Hikari Horaki
 * Kaworu Nagisa
 * Kensuke Aida
 * Mari Makinami Illustrious
 * Maya Ibuki
 * Misato Katsuragi
 * Rei Ayanami
 * Ritsuko Akagi
 * Ryoji Kaji
 * Shinji Ikari
 * Toji Suzuhara

Het

 * AsuShin — the ship between Asuka Langley Soryu and Shinji Ikari
 * HikaToji — the ship between Hikari Horaki and Toji Suzuhara
 * KawoAsu — the ship between Kaworu Nagisa and Asuka Langley Soryu
 * KawoRei — the ship between Kaworu Nagisa and Rei Ayanami
 * MariShin — the ship between Mari Makinami Illustrious and Shinji Ikari
 * MisaKaji — the ship between Misato Katsuragi and Ryoji Kaiji
 * MisaShin — the ship between Misato Katsuragi and Shinji Ikari
 * ReiShin — the ship between Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari

Slash

 * KawoShin — the ship between Kaworu Nagisa and Shinji Ikari
 * TojiShin — the ship between Shinji Ikari and Toji Suzuhara

Femslash

 * AsuMari — the ship between Asuka Langley Soryu and Mari Makinami Illustrious
 * AsuRei — the ship between Asuka Langley Soryu and Rei Ayanami
 * MisaRitsu — the ship between Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi
 * RitsuMaya — the ship between Maya Ibuki and Ritsuko Akagi

Poly

 * AsuKawoShin — the ship between Asuka Langley Soryu, Kaworu Nagisa and Shinji Ikari
 * AsuMariShin - the ship between Asuka Shikinami Langley, Mari Illustrious Makinami and Shinji Ikari
 * AsuReiShin — the ship between Asuka Langley Soryu, Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari
 * KawoReiShin — the ship between Kaworu Nagisa, Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari

Fandom
FAN FICTION


 * Evangelion tag on Fanfiction.net

PIXIV



TUMBLR



WIKIS


 * Evangelion Wiki
 * EvaWiki

COMMUNITIES


 * r/evangelion
 * Evageeks

Trivia
The Evangelion franchise is composed of these three main continuities:


 * The original TV series (1995-1996), which shares the same continuity with the End of Evangelion movie (1997)
 * The Neon Genesis Evangelion manga adaptation (1995-2014), by character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
 * The Rebuild of Evangelion movie series (2007, 2009, 2012, 2021)

There are dozens of video games and spin-off manga that are not considered canon.

Lists

 * cross-overs are included separately. FFN has over 9.2K Eva fics in total, versus under 3000 in AO3 as of December 2021, and a significant portion don't have characters tagged - assume real FFN shipping fic numbers are significanly higher. 1.0K numbers and higher are rounded up.