[1999]
Kouzou Fuyutsuki, an instructor at Kyoto University, meets Yui Ikari, a student there.
When Gendo Rokubungi is taken into custody at the local police department for violent
behavior, he specifies Fuyutsuki to be the one he is released to. Fuyutsuki's first
impression of Gendo is that of distaste.
In autumn, Fuyutsuki is told by Yui that she is romantically involved with Gendo. She says
that he is a sweet person.
[2000]
September 13, the Second Impact occurs at the South Pole. The great icy continent melts in
no time at all, and the rising water level washes away all sorts of organisms from the
land. The twisted axis of the Earth drastically changes the Ecosystem. Furthermore, the
civil wars, that ensue, lead to the death of half the total human population. Sights like
that of an apocalypse blanket the Earth.
The Katsuragi Research Team visiting the South Pole is wiped out except for Dr.
Katsuragi's daughter, Misato. Gendo, who had been part of the same research team, had left
the day before the unfortunate event and escapes the calamity.
[2001]
Yui and Gendo's first child, Shinji, is born. Gendo had intended to name the child
"Rei" if it had turned out to be a girl.
[2002]
Fuyutsuki had been working as an unlicensed doctor, but at the U.N.'s request, he heads
for the South Pole to conduct a formal investigation into the Second Impact. Fuyutsuki
meets Gendo there again and learns that he and Yui are now married and have a child.
Fuyutsuki confirms his suspicions that SEELE, the organization that Gendo belongs to, is
covering up some vital facts regarding how the Second Impact occurred.
[2003]
Fuyutsuki continues to investigate on his own, and it leads him to Gendo Ikari, the
director of the Artificial Evolution Laboratory (AEL). Fuyutsuki visits the laboratory and
threatens to go public with the truth, but Gendo leads him to a giant space - Central
Dogma - sprawling beneath the laboratory. There, he finds Dr. Naoko Akagi, a leading
authority on bio-computers, and learns that they call themselves GEHIRN. Furthermore, the
half-built Evangelion Unit-00 could be seen there as well. Gendo says to Fuyutsuki,
"Work with me to create a new era in the history of mankind." After carefully
thinking it over, Fuyutsuki accepts the invitation.
[2004]
During an experiment in Underground Laboratory #2 in Hakone, Yui Ikari vanishes. It is an
accident that occurs right before her son, Shinji. Immediately afterwards, Gendo goes
missing, and Fuyutsuki becomes gravely concerned at the week-long absence of the
commander. What happened during this time is obscured and unclear, but when Gendo returns,
he informs Fuyutsuki that he is endorsing the "Human Instrumentality Project"
and the "Adam Regeneration Project." Later, Naoko Akagi says that Gendo changed
after this time period.
At around the same time, Gendo places Shinji in the care of an acquaintance. After that,
Shinji would live apart from his father until the year of 2015.
[2005]
Five years has found Misato recovered (though not completely) from her aphasia. At Tokyo-2
University in New Tokyo-2, she makes the acquaintance of two people. One is Ritsuko Akagi,
daughter of the distinguished Dr. Naoko Akagi. The other is Ryoji Kaji, a man who has
something of her father in him. Kaji and Misato eventually move in together.
Asuka Langley Sohryu is chosen as the Second Child. On the same day, her mother, Kyoko
Zepplin Sohryu, who had previously already been in a mentally broken state, hangs herself
in the hospital.
[2007]
Misato and Kaji break up. The reason is within her heart. Kaji was too much like Misato's
father.
[2008]
The fundamental theory for the bio-computer Magi is completed by Dr. Naoko Akagi. The
procurement of the Magi represents further progress in Gendo's plans.
Ritsuko Akagi joins Gehirn after graduating from her university. She is assigned to
Project E, placing her in the same department as her mother. However, due to this, she
finds that her mother and Gendo are involved with one another.
[2009]
Misato Katsuragi joins Gehirn. Her post is Germany's Branch 3.
[2010]
Rei Ayanami (the first) arrives at Gehirn. Gendo, who accompanies her, explains that she
is a friends daughter.
Dr. Naoko Akagi's efforts bring the Magi to completion. The same night, Naoko learns from
young Rei that she is nothing more than a tool to Gendo to realize his plans. In a
passionate outburst, she strangles Rei to death, then throws herself from the command
center to her death as well. The next day, SEELE decides to dissolve Gehirn, which had
been the Human Instrumentality Project's research organization. All members of the
organization are transferred to the special duty organization NERV, which would carry out
all projects. SEELS's plans enter a new phase.
[2012]
The 8th anniversary of Yui Ikari's death. Shinji visits the grave with his father, Gendo,
but he runs away from the bodiless grave and disappears.
[2014]
Rei Ayanami (the second) transfers to New Tokyo-3 Public Middle School 1.
[2015]
Summoned by his father, Gendo, Shinji Ikari comes to New Tokyo-3. On the same day, an
Angel attacks for the first time in 15 years. To mankind, it is the third they have
encountered - the Third Angel. For the sake of New Tokyo-3's defense, Shinji is hastily
put on board the artificial human Evangelion. He narrowly manages to intercept the Angel
and demonstrates his talents in his first battle.
From then on, there is a rash of Angel attacks. NERV also responds by sending first
Unit-00 (First Child - Rei Ayanami), then Unit-02 (Second Child - Asuka Langley Sohryu) to
battle.
At the same time as Unit-02's addition, Ryoji Kaji of NERV's Special Inspections
Department comes to Japan. He brings "Adam" with him to NERV Headquarters.
Branch 2 of NERV in America vanishes. It is surmised that it is due to an accident that
occurred driung the experimental installation of a S2 engine onto Eva Unit-04. Horrified
by this incident, America decides to fly Eva Unit-03 over to Japan from America's Branch
1. As for the pilot of that unit, the Fourth Child = Toji Suzuhara is newly selected.
However, Unit-03 is infiltrated by an Angel during the transport and goes out of control
during the activation test. It is dispatched as an Angel by Eva Unit-01. After this
operation, the Unit-01 pilot, Shinji Ikari, voices his objections regarding how the
operation was conducted and rebels against his father.
Through private appropriation of Unit-01, he tries to threaten his father but ends in
failure. The Third Child's entry is erased for a time, but he returns to the front line
when the Fourteenth Angel invades NERV Headquarters. He successfully intercepts the Angel.
Furthermore, Unit-01 goes berserk during the battle, preys upon the Fourteenth Angel, and
acquires the S2 engine.
Kaji, who had been making private inquiries into NERV under order from SEELE, is shot and
dies.
In the fight against the Fifteenth Angel, Gendo orders the use of the Spear of Longinus.
Unit-00's attack with the Spear successfully brings down the Angel, but the Spear goes as
far as the moon and becomes unrecoverable.
Eva Unit-00 blows itself up in order to defeat the Sixteenth Angel. The pilot of said
unit, Rei Ayanami (the second), perishes. Rei Ayanami (the third) goes into action.
The person in charge of Project E, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, defects. She destroys all of the
dummy plug Rei Ayanami individuals, except for those that were in operation. The true
reason behind this is her complicated love-hate relationship with Gendo Ikari.
Asuka runs away. She is secured without incident, but she was no longer in any condition
to pilot the Eva.
As a replacement pilot for Asuka for Unit-02, the Fifth Child = Kaworu Nagisa arrives via
the Human Instrumentality Committee. However, his true identity is a humanoid Angel. This
Angel successfully enters Terminal Dogma, but the Third Impact that people had feared
would happen did not occur. He is throttled to death by Unit-01 which came after him.