What time does Neon Genesis Evangelion take place?

2015
The TV Show: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Set in the year 2015 — a decade and a half after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact — the story of Neon Genesis Evangelion follows Ikari Shinji (Ogata Megumi), a lonely, depressed fifteen-year-old living in the rebuilt city New Tokyo-3.

When did Neon Genesis Evangelion come out?

1995
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Hepburn: Shinseiki Evangerion, lit. “New Century Gospel”) is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and animated by Tatsunoko, directed by Hideaki Anno and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996.

Is Neon Genesis Evangelion popular in Japan?

But because Evangelion was so popular in Japan, it was one of the few anime series to get an official English-language release fairly quickly, starting in 1997. The DVD release of all 26 episodes, as well as End of Evangelion, hit the shelves in 2002, right in the middle of the internet’s early anime fandom boom.

When was Shinji Ikari born?

June 6, 2001
Shinji was born on June 6, 2001 to Gendo Ikari and Yui Ikari, a year after the Second Impact occurred on September 13, 2000. In 2004, when he was only 3 years old, he witness his mother’s “death” during the first EVA contact experiment.

How many timelines are there in Evangelion?

37
But what if we told you there were actually 37 separate timelines across the Eva multiverse? Crunchyroll’s own Tim Lyu took on the monumental task of tracing the connections between Evangelion’s many timelines… but he doesn’t stop with the anime and films.

How long is Neon Genesis Evangelion?

The good news is that each episode of has a 23-minute runtime. Watching the entire series will take a little less than 10 hours. If that’s still not enough Eva for you, Netflix has two additional Eva movies up its sleeve: The End of Evangelion and Evangelion: DEATH (TRUE)².

What race is Shinji?