paragraph_text: Serija spada u japanski žanr mecha, tj. animirane filmove o divovskim robotima. Ima 26 epizoda, 2 posebna anime filma (Death & Rebirth i The End of Evangelion) i istoimenu manga adaptaciju Yoshiyukija Sadamota. Naslov ima i latinsku inačicu, Neon Genesis Evangelion, što znači "Evanđelje novog postanka". Kasnije epizode skreću pozornost na psihoanalizu likova koji iskazuju razne emotivne probleme i naznake mentalne bolesti.,<ref>"I didn't have any interest in studying human psychology in the past. I only took a course about it in University, but I suppose I always had something in my mind to analyse human psyche. I thought I wasn't interested in humans very much, but then when I started talking about myself, I needed words to explain. So I started reading books on psychology. From Episode #16, EVANGELION'S story went into the direction to ask just what the human mind is all about inside. I wrote about myself. My friend lent me a book on human psychological illness and this gave me a shock, as if I finally found what I needed to say." Anno, Protoculture Addicts 43 priroda egzistencije i stvarnosti se preispituju zbog čega bi se serija mogla karakterizirati kao "postmoderna fantazija".<ref>"The narratives, the characters, and the mise en scene of these works evoke the disturbing postmodern fantasy...Sconce suggests that, "where there were once whole human subjects, there are now only fragmented and decentered subjectivities, metaphors of 'simulation and 'schizophrenia'" and he finds that, "in postmodernism's fascination with the evacuation of the reference and an ungrounded play of signification and surface, we can see another vision of beings who, like ghosts and psychotics, are no longer anchored in reality instead wander through a hallucinatory world where the material real is forever lost"". (Sconce quote from Jeffrey Sconce's Haunted Media). pg 419 of Napier 2002 Kroz zaplet u kojem tajna organizacija kani pokrenuti "proces instrumentalizacije" kako bi uzvisila čovječanstvo na novu razinu postojanja, priča se dotiče tema transhumanizma i eugenike.