Neon Genesis Evangelion is a Japanese anime television series. The story is set in 2015, fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm in the futuristic city of Tokyo-3. It follows Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy who is recruited by his father Gendo Ikari to the mysterious organization Nerv. He is tasked to pilot an Evangelion, a giant mecha, to fight and destroy beings known as Angels. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre. It has had a profound influence on the anime industry and influenced numerous future works.
