“Shinji joins classmates Rei and Kaworu to battle Angels using his manifested EVA weapon at NERV Academy.”
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 学園堕天録
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Synopsis
Shinji joins classmates Rei and Kaworu to battle Angels using his manifested EVA weapon at NERV Academy.
Shinji Ikari yearns for excitement to transform his boring day-to-day life as a student at the NERV Foundation Academy. His wish is granted when he witnesses an explosive battle between two teenagers and an older man with great wings extending from his back. Shinji recognizes these two teenagers as his classmates: his crush Rei Ayanami and new transfer student Kaworu Nagisa. During the encounter, Shinji unwittingly releases a power that appears to vanquish the winged man; in future instances, his power takes the form of a gun-like EVA, a weapon manifested from his will to survive. He learns that the beings his classmates combat are known as Angels, transient forms of consciousness that take possession of human bodies because they lack physical forms of their own. Cooperating with his two classmates—and later joined by foreign transfer student Asuka Langley Souryuu—Shinji agrees to fight against the Angels who plague his town.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
What 6 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.13 · split reception
3.8 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 3.7
↓ 2.67
Running avg · Jul 2010 → May 2025
- 7 “Story: For 22 chaps (which is short of me) the story does well. It seems to end abruptly, but there's enough closure for a spin to a series to like, but you'd have to be familiar with the main...”
- 8 “Nobody has written a review for Neon Genesis Gakuen Datenroku yet???? What the heaaallll...... Story All right, for the people who has already watched the original N.G.E, I have to tell you, the...”
- 6 “Remember reading this a year ago and feeling empty due to how disappointing it is I actually like the concept and up for a reimagining of the anime's story but the way they did it was lack luster...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 22 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 56m approx
- Published Aug 2007 – Aug 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M4164 catalog