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The design of the Evangelion was conceived and edited by Anno and Ikuto Yamashita, the official mecha designer of the series. [25] The director took inspiration from the demons of Japanese folklore, the oni, and wanted to give them a modern look that differed from other mecha, such as the Gundams of the Mobile Suit Gundam series, giving them a more human-demonic nature than strictly robotic.
As the Angel attacks Unit 01's core, Shinji pleads with the Evangelion to start working again. Unit 01 goes "berserk", re-engages and defeats the Angel, and then tears apart and eats the Angel's corpse, absorbing its S² engine in the process.
According to Comic Book Resources, Evangelion 's fruit of life vaguely implies a relationship with the Fruit of the Holy Spirit, suggesting: "the Angels aren't the villains after all". [99] By eating Zeruel, Unit 01 ascends to a "God status" and the event is "a turning point in the series". [100]
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.
Years later, Gendo asks him to pilot a mecha called Evangelion Unit-01 to protect the city of Tokyo-3 from Angels, creatures that threaten to destroy humanity. Shinji appears in the franchise's feature films and related media, video games , the manga Petit Eva: Evangelion@School , the Rebuild of Evangelion films, and the manga adaptation by ...
The next film in the series, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, was previewed in a post-credits trailer, continuing the story with Shinji and Rei still frozen within Unit-01, Tokyo-3 and the Geofront being abandoned, "NERV personnel [being] held in confinement," "Eva Mark-06 descend[ing] on Dogma," "the quickening Eva Unit-08 and its pilot ...
When Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth was released in 1997, the UCC Ueshima Coffee Co. company marketed coffee cans with the characters of the series, [445] selling 400,000 cases—about twelve million cans; after the release of Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone in 2007, another 300,000 cases containing about nine million cans were ...
Evangelion: 1.11 is 101 minutes long, three minutes longer than the Evangelion: 1.01. The bonus video Rebuild of Evangelion: 1.01, which was already present in the special edition of Evangelion: 1.01, as well as unreleased footage from Evangelion: 2.0, was included in both the DVD and Blu-Ray editions. [222] [223]