1. The greatest, most ingenius anime show ever made. This show has it all, drama, a very intriguing philsophical nature, cute characters, awesome mecha and creatures.
Evangelion is the coolest fucking anime ever made.
by Jules Carrozza June 21, 2003
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NEON GENESIS EVANGELION

WARNING: CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS...

Note: If you ever hear of GEHIRN, that is the old name for NERV.

The best, most complex anime ever created. It consists of 26 episodes and two movies ("End of Evangelion" and "Death and Rebirth").
To actually understand the series, you need to have watched The End Of Evangelion before the last two episodes, which are extremely confusing; lots of images and ideas thrown at you all at once, whilst the movie breaks them up and helps you to understand.
In the year 2000 the "Second impact" occured, melting the polar ice caps and putting much of the worlds land under sea. As much as half of the worlds population was killed in this event. The dinosaurs were wiped out in the same way, but the event was much bigger, this was the "First impact".
Now the organisation "NERV" is created, by another, (SEELE), to keep a strange race, which we have named the "angels", from causing a "Third impact". NERV created a huge bio-mech called an Evangelion to protect Earth, as conventional weapons are no use against the Angels.
The "pilots" of Evangelion all have to be born after the second impact, which makes them all 14 years old, these are: Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Sohryu and Rei Ayanami. The pilots sit inside the Evangelion and "Sync" with it, for example, if the Evangelion is hurt, so is the pilot, but this proves to be an effective method of controlling the Eva.
SPOILERS:
Impacts are caused by an Angel joining with the original angel, "Adam". The second impact was only small because Adam was in an embryonic state, deliberatly caused my SEELE.
SPOILER:
The evangelions are a living thing, and must have a soul. This is very confusing, but I believe that Shinji's mother's soul is in Evangelion Unit 01, Asuka's Mother's in Unit 02 and some part of Rei's conciousness in Unit 00.
This basically concludes the story. Everybody should watch this series, it makes a creepy kind of sense.
SPOILER:
We are all seperate because we need each other to live, we reject each other, we use sadness to exist, if we were all dead, harmony would reign, and we would become our original self. You see this original self in the End Of Evangelion Movie.

Note that there are a lot of hidden meanings in this series, see if you can find them all ^_^...

Naoko :)
Damn, it took me 10 rounds of this series to understand this... But... Wow..
by Naoko Karou January 1, 2005
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one fucked up anime. cool, but fucked up
The End of Evangelion is one of the most craziest/fucked up things that i have ever seen
by im crazy August 24, 2003
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1. An anime cartoon that is often made fun of by people who are too stupid to understand anything it is about.
2. A show that combines human drama with mecha (robot) action.
Evangelion is high-quality entertainment.
by Somebody May 19, 2003
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Best anime show ever, consists of drama and robot battles. Evangelion is the best drawn anime ever and has a story far superior to most American movies.
Shin Seiki Evangelion is the best friggin' anime I've ver seen!
by Wolvie May 31, 2003
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An anime that is said to be the archetype for all other anime, but it is extremely fucked up. All the characters are in desperate need of a psychiatrist, and the writers were smoking some very potent weed while creating this anime.

Some real-life guns appear in this series:

G11 carried by troops that were invading NERV
USP used by Misato
Glock 17/19 used by some NERV personell
Uzi used by NERV guards
Giant ACR used by EVA's
Giant Desert Eagle used by EVA's
The word "Evangelion" should be synonomous with "WTF".
by sekiryu July 5, 2006
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