Neon Genesis Evangelion (Season 1)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, 1995) — watch online the landmark anime series from Studio Gainax on iFILM. Director Hideaki Anno delivered 26 episodes that redrew what science fiction animation could do, and three decades later the series still provokes arguments about its final two episodes.

The year is 2015. Fifteen years earlier, the First Angel's arrival killed half the world's population — an event recorded as the Second Impact. Now new Angels are descending on Tokyo-3, each one more impossible to destroy than the last. Fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari (voiced by Megumi Ogata) is summoned by his estranged father, commander of the shadow agency Nerv, and handed a single option: pilot the bio-mechanical giant called Unit-01. His fellow pilots are the quiet, unsettling Rei Ayanami (Megumi Hayashibara) and the aggressive ace Asuka Langley Soryu (Yuko Miyamura).

Anno launched the show as a mecha action series and steered it into psychological collapse — trauma, religious iconography and the question of whether human connection is even possible. The final episodes and companion film The End of Evangelion remain among the most dissected works in animation history. Stream all episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) online on iFILM.