Designated the 1st Angel, Adam is one of two Seeds of Life stranded on Earth and the being whose awakening beneath Antarctica unleashes Second Impact. Reduced afterward to a frozen embryo, it becomes the genetic wellspring of the…
Colossal luminous giants glimpsed at the South Pole during Second Impact, the Adams are the Rebuild film series' reimagining of the first Angel. Their sealed remnants command NERV's warship fleet and Evangelion 13, and bringing them…
A jellyfish given monstrous scale, Adovaquiel belongs to the tabletop game Decisive Battle in Tokyo-3, part of the wider Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG line. It hides its core somewhere within its bell, shields itself behind an A.T. Field,…
Awakened by Kōzō Fuyutsuki in Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, the Advanced Ayanami Series is NERV's next generation of Rei Ayanami clones, pure-souled bodies prepared as offerings to the Vessels of the Adams for the saga's final…
Angel: G-Type is an original creation for the Shin Japan Heroes Universe attraction, debuting in the Shin 765 Operation event of July 2022. Its hulking two-legged frame reads as Godzilla's second form crossed with the Third Angel of the…
A spider among Angels, the black and red Angel: K-Type crawls out of the Shin 765 Operation event on eight ringed legs. It is original to the Shin Japan Heroes Universe attraction, and its name most likely traces back to kumo, the Japanese…
Angel: Z-Type rounds out the trio of Angels invented for the Shin Japan Heroes Universe attraction's Shin 765 Operation event. Observers identify it as the kaiju Zetton of Shin Ultraman fused with the Rebuild films' Tenth Angel, which…
Aoi Mogami keeps the MAGI computer Melchior running in the Shinji Ikari Raising Project game, where she also directs Shinji's studies. The spinoff manga Gakuen Datenroku recasts her as an academy nun whose habit conceals her real employer,…
Arael, the 15th Angel, wages its war from orbit. Rather than descend, it drives a shaft of light into Asuka Langley Sohryu's mind and forces her back through her most painful memories, a violation NERV can only end by hurling the Spear of…
The 16th Angel and the final natural child of Adam, Armisael arrives as a glowing double helix that would rather merge than fight. Its invasion of Unit-00 becomes a conversation with Rei Ayanami about loneliness, and it dies with her in a…
Brash, brilliant, and carrying wounds she refuses to show, Asuka Langley Sohryu arrives from Germany as the Second Child and pilot of Evangelion Unit-02. Her pride powers both her battlefield swagger and her unraveling, making her collapse…
Rebuilt for the film tetralogy, Asuka Shikinami Langley trades a university degree for an air force captaincy and fourteen years of frozen adolescence. The Curse of Eva keeps her body fourteen while she wars against NERV alongside WILLE,…
Atalibu stalks the tabletop game Decisive Battle in Tokyo-3 as one of the Angels invented for the Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG line. Long clawed arms, a lone eye above the chest, and an unguarded core mark its lopsided body, and it chills…
Gravity itself is Azrael's weapon. Invented for the tabletop game Decisive Battle in Tokyo-3 within the Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG line, this Angel carries the symbol of the Angel of Death and a name meaning Help of God, and it swims into…
Ninth in the Angel roster of The NERV White Paper, a tabletop entry in the Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG line, Barachiel rolls through Tokyo-3 as a building-sized bacterium that drinks from Lake Ashinoko and sprays the water back out as…
Bardiel is the thirteenth Angel of Neon Genesis Evangelion, a parasitic infection that swallows Evangelion Unit-03 and turns it against NERV with pilot Toji Suzuhara still trapped inside. Its rampage forces the Dummy System's debut and…
Biollante Asuka is a crossover form of Asuka Shikinami Langley appearing in PACHINKO GODZILLA vs. EVANGELION: Second Impact G. With her mind overrun by cells of the kaiju Biollante, the pilot becomes a thorn-wrapped, ever-growing engine of…
Bumblebee is an Autobot from the Transformers series who crosses into the Evangelion universe in the story Transformers Mode "EVA". Arriving on Earth with his comrades to trace strange energy readings, he ends up running rings around a…
Bunzaemon Horaki is a minor character introduced in Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, the final Rebuild of Evangelion film. Father to Hikari, Kodama, and Nozomi Horaki and grandfather to Tsubame Suzuhara, he appears at a family…
Commander Nikolayev heads NERV's Russian branch in the tabletop game Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG: The NERV White Paper. Outwardly warm yet possibly hiding his real agenda, he waves off help from Tokyo when the Angel Iblis surfaces in…
Crimson A1 is the being born when Asuka Langley Sohryu fuses with Evangelion Unit-02 Type II Allegorica in the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novels. Part pilot, part machine, and mentally reduced to infancy, she later resurfaces as the…
The Diemay Angel is a fan-created Angel that won a GAINAX design contest and was immortalized in a Yoh Yoshinari illustration for the March 1996 issue of Monthly Animage. Designed by Satou "Diemay" Daimei of Tokyo, the winged giant has…
Dr. Katsuragi is Misato Katsuragi's father in Neon Genesis Evangelion, a scientist glimpsed only in flashback whose Super Solenoid theory gives the S² Engine its name. Mortally wounded during Second Impact, he spends his final moments…
The Eighth Angel is the Rebuild of Evangelion counterpart to Sahaquiel, debuting in Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. Nicknamed the Falling Angel by its creators, it plunges from orbit as a shape-shifting mass kilometers across that…
Eri Akizuki is an original pilot created for the stage play Stage Evangelion Beyond. The newest member of the MENSCH team, she is assigned to Evangelion δ, and performer Hirona Murata brings the role to life on stage.
Erisa Nozaki is an original NERV character introduced in the game EVANGELION:Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS. Described as an elite blessed with unusually acute hearing and a perceptive nature, she is voiced by Manaka Iwami.
Etsuko Sakurai is an original character from the stage play Stage Evangelion Beyond. She heads the Technology Development Department under MENSCH, with a hand in both Evangelion operations and the programs built around the pilots. Kyoko…
The Fifth Angel is the fifth of the Angels to strike in the Rebuild of Evangelion films, debuting in Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. It is the big-screen counterpart of Shamshel from the original series, rebuilt as a 3D CG creature…
The Fourth Angel is the first Angel fought on screen in the Rebuild of Evangelion films, storming Tokyo-3 in Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. A gaunt giant with a bird-like skull and bone lances in its arms, it reprises the role…
Gabriel is an Angel created exclusively for the stage play Stage Evangelion Beyond, where it carries the title of Angel of Water. Designed for the theater by Sho-ichiro Matsuoka, it has no counterpart in the anime or films and exists only…
Gaghiel is the sixth Angel of Neon Genesis Evangelion, a shark-like leviathan that fights entirely at sea. It ambushes the UN Pacific fleet ferrying Unit-02 to Japan, forcing Asuka and Shinji into their first shared battle. Its Hebrew name…
Galvatron is the Decepticon leader from the Transformers series, the rebuilt form of Megatron. He crosses into Evangelion territory only by mention: in the crossover story Transformers Mode "EVA", Starscream briefly considers turning his…
Gendo Ikari commands NERV and stands as the chief antagonist of the Evangelion saga. Father to Shinji and widower of Yui, he steers the Evangelion program and the Human Instrumentality Project toward a single private goal: engineering a…
Ghidorah Rei is a crossover character born from the Godzilla vs. Evangelion pachinko games, debuting in P Godzilla vs. Evangelion ~G Cell Awakening~. She is Rei Ayanami with her body seized by King Ghidorah's aura, a six-winged force that…
Toho's atomic kaiju crosses into Evangelion territory through a run of joint projects, from a theme park battle in The Real 4-D to a string of pachinko machines, and stands alongside other Shin heroes within the Shin Japan Heroes Universe.…
Hajime Aida is a minor figure in the Rebuild of Evangelion films, known as the father of Kensuke Aida. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time reveals that he lived through the Near Third Impact only to lose his life in an accident…
An original figure from the game Secret of Evangelion, Hajime Suruga works as an engineer inside NERV's Technology Development Department, where he heads a faction of employees unhappy with their treatment and quietly manages the…
Haruki Utsumi belongs to the original cast of EVANGELION:Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS. Blessed with real athletic talent yet branded a slacker by those around him, he has been made to repeat a school year, a setback that shadows his reputation…
Hawk is a codename rather than a birth name, worn by an agent of NERV's Security Intelligence Department in the game Secret of Evangelion. Serving under Kyoya Kenzaki, he carries out assignments with quiet competence, though certain story…
Among WILLE's crew in the Rebuild of Evangelion films, Hideki Tama handles engineering duties aboard the AAA Wunder. Studious and soft-spoken, he boards the warship still learning how it works, hauling stacks of reference books through its…
Hikari Horaki keeps order over Class 2-A, the Tokyo-3 homeroom that counts the Evangelion pilots among its students. Behind her strict enforcement of school rules sit a devoted cook raising two sisters, the closest friend Asuka has, and a…
Hinata La Fayette Kojo pilots the Evangelion β in Stage Evangelion Beyond, the franchise's theatrical production. A transfer from the organization's Euro branch, she arrives already locked into a heated rivalry with her fellow pilot Toma…
Hitomi Amagi greets new players of Evangelion Battlefields, guiding them through the game's opening as its tutorial character. Within the story she supervises the virtual arena where the pilots train and doubles as a counselor, a calling…
Holding a doctorate in metaphysics, Hitomi Kaga joins NERV's Project E in the game Secret of Evangelion, where her work advances the Evangelion units and their dummy plug technology. Brilliant in the lab yet hopelessly clumsy outside it,…
A turtle of impossible scale, Iblis lumbers through The NERV White Paper, a tabletop scenario built for the Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG. Its one yellow eye rides the tip of its tongue, its core hides at the far end of its tail, and the…
An Angel created for the video game Neon Genesis Evangelion: Second Impression, this unnamed entity matures the way an insect does, advancing from larva through chrysalis to a winged imago. Because its core rests inside the girl Mayumi…
Iori Kiryu directs MENSCH's Strategic Operations Section in the theatrical production Stage Evangelion Beyond. Battlefield command against the Angels falls to her, yet her responsibilities reach past tactics into the day-to-day welfare of…
Ireul, eleventh of the Angels, never shows a monstrous silhouette; it exists at the scale of a virus. Invading the Pribnow Box beneath NERV headquarters in the TV series, it evolves past every countermeasure and infiltrates the MAGI,…
Cutting Israfel in half only doubles the problem: the seventh Angel divides into twins that mend one another unless both cores shatter in the same instant. Its defeat demands something absurd and iconic, with Shinji and Asuka drilling a…
A NERV technician invented for the Shinji Ikari Raising Project game, Kaede Agano keeps the Magi computer Balthasar running and directs Shinji's mental conditioning, all while hiding a warm domestic streak. The Gakuen Datenroku manga…
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