There are also three more Rei clones present in the story, as Rei 'No. She looks much more like her genetic donor Yui Ikari. Trois', in reference to her being the third Rei to appear in the series. Asuka is a much more cheerful and happy self, having overcome her childhood trauma, and is now much closer to Shinji, though she maintains some distance from Rei. He has matured a great deal, and is now the de facto leader of the Eva Team.

Shinji is now taller and has long hair which he uses as a ponytail. There are several new variations and upgrades of the Evangelion units fighting for both sides, including a mysterious, monstrously powerful autonomous Evangelion unit called Armaros. It portrays a conflict between a reformed Nerv agency and Seele, now denounced as a rogue organization, still attempting to enact the Human Instrumentality Project.

Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the novels series for an English release from 2019 to 2021.Īnima is set into an alternative future, three years after the events of Neon Genesis Evangelion are cut short by Shinji managing to avert Seele's plans as they'd take place in The End of Evangelion. Set on an alternate timeline, three years after the events of the original Evangelion anime series, it focuses on the events where Shinji Ikari manages to avert the Human Instrumentality Project, the culmination of the plot of the original series. It was later republished into 5 tankōbon volumes from 2017 to 2019. It was originally serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Dengeki Hobby Magazine from January 2008 to January 2013. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Anima ( Japanese: エヴァンゲリオン ANIMA, Hepburn: Evangerion ANIMA), shortened as Evangelion Anima, and formerly Neon Genesis Evangelion (3 Years After) -Anima-, is a Japanese light novel series written by Takuma Kageyama and later by Ikuto Yamashita, based on the Neon Genesis Evangelion series created by Khara.

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