Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Omnibus Series

SEELE’s frustrations with Gendo’s plans leads their agent inside the school to abduct Shinji and place him under their mental control…which means Rei and Asuka must put aside their own rivalry long enough to join forces and rescue him!

In Book Three, Shinji, Rei, and Asuka at last begin to train as a team for real combat, weapons in hand…stalking a giant gelatinous creature with a spherical “core” they must take out. If this kind of mission sounds strangely familiar, you’re right–but if things go as usual, it’s poor Shinji who’ll get called the slimeball! And even as the lab deals with the fallout of the Jet Alone affair, can they stand the stress of a relaxing game of company baseball with Gendo…?

Book Two introduces Mana Kirishima, the mysterious transfer student who might be more capable than even Rei and Asuka…and who’s definitely more capable when it comes to making moves on Shinji! The four of them will get a chance to show their elders what they can do (and hopefully not kill each other in the process) when Yui takes them all on a field trip to a facility run by her greatest rival from school¬–to see Japan’s newest, nuclear-powered giant robot! What could possibly go wrong?

The famous final episode of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV show imagined the show’s main characters in an alternate world where friendship and romance could be as important as their task to pilot the Evangelion. That premise forms the storyline of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project! Stunning, hot-headed Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always sort of assumed they’d stay together–until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami showed up in class! When Shinji starts to get curious about Rei, Asuka needs to figure out if she wants to be just friends with Shinji, or something more. But why are so many people keeping an eye on these relationships–people like homeroom teacher Misato, school nurse Ritsuko, and Shinji’s mother–NERV’s chief scientist, Yui Ikari…?