Neon Genesis Evangelion is a tV series anime that premiered in fall 1995, produced by GAINAX.

About the production: the story comes from an original script, there are 26 episodes of about 24 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, drama, mecha, mystery, psychological and sci-fi, with themes such as Philosophy, Super Robot, Coming of Age and Dystopian.

On AniList, Neon Genesis Evangelion has an average score of 83%, a very good score, and appears on 504,928 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Shin Seiki Evangelion Movie: Air / Magokoro wo, Kimi ni.

In the year 2015, the Angels, huge, tremendously powerful, alien war machines, appear in Tokyo for the second time. The only hope for Mankind's survival lies in the Evangelion, a humanoid fighting machine developed by NERV, a special United Nations agency. Capable of withstanding anything the Angels can dish out, the Evangelion's one drawback lies in the limited number of people able to pilot them. Only a handful of teenagers, all born fourteen years ago, nine months after the Angels first appeared, are able to interface with the Evangelion. One such teenager is Shinji Ikari, whose father heads the NERV team that developed and maintains the Evangelion. Thrust into a maelstrom of battle and events that he does not understand, Shinji is forced to plumb the depths of his own inner resources for the courage and strength to not only fight, but to survive, or risk losing everything. (Source: AniDB) Note: Later releases include edited versions of Episodes 21-24 called the "Director's Cut" with some visual editing and adding extra scenes that previously appeared in the theatrical recap 'Death'.

Official synopsis from AniList.