Inside Unit 02, Asuka overcomes her trauma and re-activates the unit. Casper, a computer core modeled on Ritsuko's mother, overrides her command and Gendo kills her. Attempting to stop him, Nerv scientist Ritsuko Akagi sends a computer command to destroy Nerv. Gendo has had the Angel Adam surgically implanted in his right hand if he merges Adam and Lilith it will begin the Third Impact. Gendo retrieves Evangelion pilot Rei Ayanami, who carries the soul of the Angel Lilith. Shinji discovers Unit 01 is immobilized in bakelite. Before her death, Misato implores Shinji to pilot Unit 01, kisses him, and forces him into an elevator. Misato, who wants Shinji to defend Nerv, takes him to Unit 01's bay doors but is shot in the process. Nerv major Misato Katsuragi orders Asuka to be moved to Evangelion Unit 02 and placed at the bottom of a lake, then rescues Shinji from Self-Defense Force troops. Seele dispatches the Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Force to seize control of Nerv, killing most of the staff. Seele discovers Shinji's father Gendo Ikari intends to use Nerv, a paramilitary organization that deploys the Evangelion units, to create his version of the Third Impact to reunite with his deceased wife Yui, whose soul resides in Unit 01. Trying to shake her awake, he accidentally reveals her chest and masturbates in front of her, chastising himself afterward.Ī secretive committee called Seele has been planning to initiate an event called the Third Impact, which will wipe out life on Earth and achieve Human Instrumentality. Shinji is distraught over the death of his friend Kaworu Nagisa, who had revealed himself as an Angel in human form, and visits fellow pilot Asuka Langley Soryu in a hospital where she lies comatose. Teenager Shinji Ikari is the pilot of Evangelion Unit 01, one of several giant cyborgs that were designed to fight hostile supernatural entities called Angels.
Shinji ultimately accepts himself and rejects Instrumentality, preferring to live as an individual alongside others. Shinji is a young pilot of a mecha called Evangelion who is subjected to the Human Instrumentality Project, in which human souls are merged into a single, divine entity. The story centers on Shinji Ikari and his colleague Asuka Langley Soryu.
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The film serves as a parallel ending to the anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was aired from 1995-1996 and ended with two episodes that became controversial. The End of Evangelion ( Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版Air/まごころを、君に, Hepburn: Shin Seiki Evangerion Gekijō-ban: Ea/Magokoro o, Kimi ni) is a 1997 Japanese animated apocalyptic psychological drama film that was written and co-directed by Hideaki Anno, and animated by Gainax and Production I.G.