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Shinji Ikari (Japanese: 碇 シンジ, Hepburn: Ikari Shinji) is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise created by Gainax. He is the franchise's poster boy and protagonist. In the anime series of the same name, Shinji is a boy abandoned by his estranged father, Gendo, after the mysterious death of Shinji's mother, Yui.
Teenager Shinji Ikari is the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01, one of several giant cyborgs designed to fight hostile supernatural entities called Angels.Shinji is distraught after having had to kill his friend, Kaworu Nagisa, who revealed himself as an Angel in human form.
Thinking that Kaworu will trigger Third Impact by touching Adam, Misato sends Shinji into Unit-01 to destroy him. Kaworu asks Shinji to kill him so that he may be freed from SEELE's control. Shinji does so, but he remains saddened. Kaworu's death marks the end of the Angels, but SEELE launches an invasion of NERV to kill Gendo. 12
Shinji begins school at Tokyo-3 and meets classmates Toji Suzuhara, Kensuke Aida, and Hikari Horaki. Toji resents Shinji because his sister was badly injured in Shinji's first fight against the Angel Sachiel. Another Angel, Shamshel, appears, and Shinji must defeat it. Shinji is pushed to his mental limit during the battle, going berserk during ...
Shinji Ikari Shinji Ikari is invited to Tokyo-3 by his father Gendo Ikari to pilot a mecha known as the Evangelion Unit 01. Shinji reluctantly agrees, and despite a rough start he learns to use Unit 01 to protect the city from creatures known as Angels that threaten to destroy mankind. Unlike in the anime, Shinji's eyes are brown instead of blue.
This narrative choice culminates in the two final episodes, whose narrative pivots on Shinji's streams of consciousness; the finale, however, does not clearly conclude the plot. In Japan, the characters received favorable audience reception, becoming the subjects of merchandise and winning popularity polls.
[9] Rei, who has displayed minimal emotion throughout the series, reveals that she does have one impulse; it is Thanatos, an inclination to death: "I am Happy. Because I want to die, I want to despair, I want to return to nothing." [9] In episode 25, Shinji and Asuka show that they suffered similar pasts and found different ways of dealing with ...
The episode's protagonist is teenage boy Shinji Ikari, who is recruited by his father Gendo to the organization Nerv to pilot a bio-machine mecha named Evangelion against beings called Angels. In the episode, Shinji must annihilate the fifth Angel Ramiel, who is able to destroy every enemy in its vicinity with an accelerated particles cannon. A ...