The story is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm in the futuristic city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy recruited by his father Gendo to the mysterious organization Nerv. He must pilot an Evangelion, a giant mecha, to fight beings known as Angels. The psychoanalytic accounts of human behavior put forward by Freud and Jung are prominently featured. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre.
