Evangelion Episode Summaries

Episode 1: Angel Attack

The year is 2015 the first Angel arrives to start the Third Impact. The U.N. declares a stare of emergency for all residents. A young boy by the name of Shinji waits for a beautiful girl to take him to meet his father. While the battle between the first angel occurs, shinji is almost caught in the battle but is luckily saved by the untimely late Misato. The UN decides that their weapons have no effect on the angel and decide to use the N2 Bomb. The Angel disappears for a brief time but it is later discovered that the bomb had absolutely no effect on the Angel. Misato and Shinji miles away from this battle finally formally introduce themselves to each other, Shinji wonders why his father summoned him. The two eventually show up at the headquarters of Nerv. Shinji learns that his father wants him to pilot a mech called Evangelion Unit 01 at first Shinji refuses his fathers request until a piece of a metal beam comes falling down and Eva moves on its own to protect him. Misato and the others convince Shinji to get into the Eva and the battle for Earth's future begins.

Episode 2: Unknown Ceiling

The battle begins with Shinji actually learning the very basics of piloting Eva. The Angel attacks and waste no time what so ever in ripping parts of the eva apart. Shinji gets severely injured and wakes up in a hospital room. Lucky for him he is not badly injured but does manage to get to see a glimpse of the battered Ayanami Rei. Elsewhere Misato and Ristuko discuss how Shinji has no memories of what happened during the battle thanks to some psychological trauma he sustained during the battle. Misato eventually shows up to pick Shinji up from the hospital. It is soon decided that Shinji is to live by himself, Misato decides to take it upon herself to look after Shinji as his guardian and live with him. Before the two go to Misato's place she decides to show him a special area were he can see all of Tokyo 3, Misato tells him this is his home now that he protects. Eventually the two show up in Misato's place and Shinji begins to familiarize himself in his new home.

Shinji decides to take a bath and thinks about his father, Misato, and Rei. Later on Shinji is laying in bed questioning why he is here and what he is fighting for. Just then we are treated to a flashback sequence in which we learn that Eva lost its power supply and the Eva went Berserk ripping apart the Angel limb from limb. Realizing defeat the Angel decided to blow itself up. Shinji gets a look at whats behind the Eva's armor and starts to scream in horror. The flashback ends with Misato saying he did a good job and should cheer up.

Episode 3: A Transfer

We start with Shinji being trained about the basics of Eva and how Eva gets its power supply from a cable if severed from it the Eva switches to battery power only supply the eva with five minutes of power. Later on Misato learns that Shinji has yet to make any friends at school because he pushes everyone away with his personality. In this episode we are introduce to Aida, Hikaru, and Toji, we also learn that Toji's sister was actually injured during the battle between Eva and the first Angel. Eventually the students learn that Shinji is the pilot of Eva, Toji extracts a bit of revenge against Shinji by punching him in the face. Just then an alarm goes off Rei shows up telling Shinji they are wanted at Nerv. The Second angel and Evangelion do battle, Toji and Aida get caught in this battle and Misato authorizes the two kids to enter the Eva. With battery power being down to almost 30 seconds Shinji goes against Misato's orders and attacks the second Angel with full force killing the angel and depleting all of evangelion's energy. At the end of the episode we learn Shinji hasn't shown up for 3 days to school Aida tries to call Shinji at home but there is no answer.

Episode 4: Hedgehog's Dilemma

Misato awakes to find that Shinji has run away from home. Toji and Aida show up at Misato door and she is forced to make up a white lie to get the two to go away. Meanwhile Shinji goes all over Tokyo 3 acting like a bum with no place to go or person to turn to his self pity has finally affected him. Eventually Shinji comes across Aida and the two have a long talk about Eva and then go to sleep. The next morning Shinji is taken by Nerv officials he meets with his father and tells him he will not pilot eva anymore. The two agents escort Shinji to the train station not giving him anytime to say good-bye eventually Aida and Toji show up and plead for him not to go but he refuses to listen. The train starts to take off Misato shows up thinking she is too late but then we learn Shinji did not get on that train. Shinji says he is home Misato welcomes him home thus the episode ends.