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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project

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Shinji Ikari Raising Project is a 2004 Windows raising sim and romantic comedy from Gainax where the player, as Misato, schedules Shinji's weekly activities across three branching routes set in the peaceful alternate universe glimpsed in the TV series' 26th episode.

Genre: Raising sim / romantic comedy
Platform: PC (Windows)
Developer: Gainax
Publisher: Gainax
Release Year: 2004
Japan Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Gameplay

Every in game Sunday, the player, acting as Misato, assigns Shinji 12 scheduled activities for the coming week. Choices feed into 11 tracked parameters, including knowledge, physical strength, morality, synchronization rate, and stress, which steer which scenes and endings play out. The cast keeps its original TV series voice actors, but the character designs are entirely new, created by Kengo Yonekura rather than matching the anime's original look.
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Story and Setting

The game plays out across three main routes: Thanatos, a comedic retelling that touches all 26 episodes of the original TV series; Pathos, a lighter route built around recreational activities; and Campus, an alternate slice of life scenario that drops the Evas and Angels entirely in favor of ordinary school life.
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Legacy

Gainax released the game for Windows on September 24, 2004, only officially in Japanese and Korean, though fans later produced English and Russian translation patches. Its cast and setup were popular enough to spawn a manga adaptation that ran in Shonen Ace from 2006 to 2016 across 18 volumes, later published in English by Dark Horse Comics.
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