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In Petit Eva: Evangelion@School, Shinji is portrayed as a boy "frightened by the idea of growing up" but popular among the students of Tokyo-3's Municipal Nerv High School. [94] In Evangelion: Detective Shinji Ikari, Kaji and Kaworu are portrayed as private investigators whom Shinji asks for help and investigates a mysterious case. [95]
The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy who is recruited by his father Gendo to the organization Nerv to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. During the episode, Shinji faces the Angel Sachiel but freezes with fear and fails to defend his Eva-01, which is left damaged and inoperable.
From Asuka's arrival onward, however, Evangelion features several elements of boys' manga, named shōnen, such as effort, friendship, and victory over enemies. [75] All three of these themes are present in the installment: Asuka and Shinji strive together on synchronicity, solidarity is created between the two, and they win against the Angel.
The three Evangelion mecha pilots, Shinji, Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley Soryu, join forces to take down the ninth Angel, Matarael. The episode, part of the series' action arc, blends comedy and action together and is markedly positive in its portrayal of the characters' relationships, particularly those of the three main characters.
In the video game Detective Evangelion (名探偵エヴァンゲリオン, Meitantei Evangerion) (2007), which was released for PlayStation 2 by Broccoli and is based on the spin-off manga Detective Shinji Ikari, three Nerv operators who do not appear in the original series appear; each of them oversees one of the computers of the Magi System ...
According to the academic Fabio Bartoli, "Ambivalence" and "Introjection" have the most-shocking scenes of Evangelion, in which the hedgehog's dilemma mentioned in the fourth episode shows "its most dramatic consequences". [97] Comic Book Resources described the episode as a "turning point", after which Evangelion becomes darker and more dramatic.
The Evangelion 1.11 Blu-Ray remained among the best-selling anime releases into mid-2010. [276] [277] Evangelion: 1.01 was then broadcast on NTV's Friday Road Show on July 3, 2009, attracting 12.7% of the share of television viewers that night. [278] [279] The official website of the Friday Road Show also had the highest number of hits in its ...
Elsewhere, Shinji and Misato in a car train descend deep underground into a Geofront. Shinji is taken to the hangar of a giant mecha named Evangelion, where he is shown Unit 01, the first test type of the Eva series, as Gendo appears above. Shinji learns he has been summoned to pilot Unit 01 into battle against the Angel.