Neon Genesis Evangelion (television series)

Neon Genesis Evangelion. TV Tokyo October 1995-March 1996. Hideaki Anno, main director, script. Gainax, Tatsunoko Production (production) / Netflix (worldwide streaming license).[1]

Wikipedia entry summarizes

Evangelion is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, particularly in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist [...] was recruited by his father [...] to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha called an "Evangelion" into combat with beings called "Angels". The series explores the experiences and emotions of Evangelion pilots and [... others] as they try to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms. In the process, they are called upon to understand the ultimate causes of events and the motives for human action. It recast the saintly inventor/father as a sinister figure, and the enthusiastic teenage protagonist as a vacillating introvert, a deconstruction of classic mecha anime tropes. The series features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology as well as Jewish and Christian mystical traditions, including Midrashic tales, Kabbalah and Gnosticism. The psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung also feature prominently.

For more extensive plot summary, see here.[2]

Discussed in "When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain."

RDE, finishing, 20Jan21