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“Post-apocalyptic 2015: teen Shinji pilots giant Eva to battle mysterious Angels, uncovering dark truths.”
Neon Genesis Evangelion
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
8.6
125 rank · 128,789 readers · 8,418 favorites
Seinen
Shounen
Mecha
Psychological
Action
Drama
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Suspense
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Synopsis
Post-apocalyptic 2015: teen Shinji pilots giant Eva to battle mysterious Angels, uncovering dark truths.
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.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 31 sampled reviews
8.8
/10
What 31 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 1.37
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.37 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.16
Running avg · Nov 2009 → Nov 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “It has slight changes that gradually make it different from the anime, and I must say that personally I liked this manga more than the anime. I swear that things are much better here. It's one of...”
- 10 “Well, I wanted to make my first reviews for anime and manga on probably my favorite series of all time, the Evangelion franchise. Well what else can is say besides, its the goat. The characters...”
- 8 “At first I didn't know if this was worth reading, as it fairly closely follows the events of the anime. However the translator's notes at the end of every volume provided interesting facts and...”
Verbosity
Short · 16%
Medium · 48%
Long · 35%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 97 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 12h 56m approx
- Published Dec 1994 – Jun 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0659 catalog