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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 .
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 碇シンジ育成計画, Shin Seiki Evangerion: Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku) is a life simulation computer game based on the anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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.
Shinji's temporary resignation from Nerv is a tribute to the television series The Prisoner, [71] [72] Junichi Sato compared the third and the fourth episode of Evangelion to Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, [73] while critic Mario Pasqualini likened the scene in which Shinji stops near a Jizō statue to a similar sequence in the film My Neighbor ...
There, Gendo demands Shinji pilot Evangelion Unit 01, a giant, humanoid bio-machine, against the Angel. Shinji concedes when Gendo has Rei Ayanami, a wounded Evangelion pilot, prepared to be sent out instead. Shinji loses consciousness during the fight due to injuries inflicted by the Angel on Unit 01, as Evangelion units sympathetically ...
In another scene, Kaji takes Shinji to his melon field; Evangelion Chronicle noted that the melons' shape resembles that of the Angel Leliel. [118] According to Redmond, Kaji's field indicates that Nerv's geofront "is also the symbolic global ecology of Tokyo-3's multinational city". [119]
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Hepburn: Shinseiki Evangerion, lit. ' New Century Evangelion ' in Japanese and lit. ' New Beginning Gospel ' in Greek), also known as Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax, animated by Tatsunoko, and directed by Hideaki Anno.
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.