In the year 2015, half of the human race is dead, and the survivors face extinction at the hands of giant biotechnology experiments called Angels.
Within the headquarters of the secretive organization called NERV, a special United Nations agency located in Tokyo-3, a handful of teenagers are trained to pilot the colossal super-entities known as Evangelions and battle the Angels on their own terms... whatever the cost to their minds and souls.
公元2000年,南极发生了大爆炸,冰封的大陆在一瞬间融化,引起世界海洋水位上涨甚至海啸,淹没了地球上的很大一部分陆地,随后,内战、民族纷争、自然灾害接踵而来,人类因此灭亡了一半。这次灾难被称为“第二次冲击”(The Second Impact)。