The series explores the experiences and emotions of the Evangelion pilots and Nerv's members as they fight to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms. T. Field Control Experiment] was developed by Ritsuko Akagi for an exclusive use by the Evangelion Unit-01 (although parts of it would later be used on a repaired Unit-00 and Unit-02). Neon Genesis Evangelion June Tokuhon: Zankoku-Na Tenshi no These ("The Neon Genesis Evangelion JUNE Reader: Zankoku na Tenshi no These"). The Mainichi Times wrote that broadcast of the penultimate episode, "nearly all viewers felt betrayed .

When commentator Eiji Ōtsuka sent a letter to the Yomiuri Shimbun, complaining about the end of the Evangelion series, the debate went nationwide. In 2015, Evangelion:Another Impact, a 3D-rendered short film collaboration between the Khara studio and the media company Dwango was directed by Shinji Aramaki, released and streamed as the twelfth anime short from the Japan Animator Expo on February 8. The initial cuts of the first two episodes were screened at the second Gainax festival in July 1995, only three months before they were aired on television. My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion".Miyakawa compared "Angel Attack" and "Decisive Battle" to the compositions of Japanese special effects tokusatsu films, such as Godzilla; "Angel Attack", in particular, has been compared to the soundtrack of Ryūichi Sakamoto's The Last Emperor (1987) and the song " Kyūchi ni tatsu Gandamu" ( 窮地に立つガンダム, lit.

in D Major [33] [34] and Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, [35] [36] Johann Pachelbel's Canon, [37] [38] Georg Friedrich Händel's Messiah, [39] Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem [40] and Ludwig van Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

Neon Genesis Evangelion II was released by Starchild on 16 February 1996, [156] [157] and re-released in a second edition on 22 December 2004.