After the catastrophe "Second Impact" that struck the world, the world was rebuilt on the ruins. 14-year-old boy Shinji Ikari was called to the third new Tokyo by his father Ikari Gento. He thought he would be greeted by his father, but he saw a giant creature called "Angel" exchanging fire with the army. In a critical situation, Misato Katsunari of the secret agency NERV rescued Shinji and took him to the NERV headquarters led by Ikari Gento. But what greeted Shinji was his father's cold order: drive a giant humanoid robot called "EVA" to fight the Angel. Shinji, who had already refused, decided to obey his father's order after seeing the seriously injured substitute pilot Rei Ayanami. In this way, Shinji, who had never received combat training, prepared to drive EVA Unit-01 to fight the Angel. The fate of the world was entrusted to a 14-year-old boy, and the "Human Instrumentality Project" hidden in the "Second Impact" seemed to have begun to act. Ikari Gento, who had all the answers, just observed calmly, as if everything had been written into the script.