Does Neon Genesis Evangelion Have Any Fillers?

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a Japanese mecha-type anime that was produced by Gainax and was broadcast from 1995 to 1996. The series is set in the future, fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, in a world terrorized by beings known as Angels.

The protagonist of the story, Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy is called by his estranged father, Gendo Ikari, into Nerv, a United Nations special organization that uses Evangelions, giant bio-machine mechas to battle the angels and get rid of them.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a Japanese mecha-type anime that was produced by Gainax and was broadcast from 1995 to 1996. The series is set in the future, fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, in a world terrorized by beings known as Angels.

The protagonist of the story, Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy is called by his estranged father, Gendo Ikari, into Nerv, a United Nations special organization that uses Evangelions, giant bio-machine mechas to battle the angels and get rid of them.

The series has been known to have a profound effect on the mecha genre and received critical acclaim as well as stirred up some controversy. It touches on religious symbols, and cosmology and ventures deep into the human psyche challenging life through the analysis of the problems of the series characters. It is believed to be based on the director, Hideaki Anno’s own psychiatric depression.

Neon Genesis Evangelion changed the anime industry, expanding the medium’s boundaries and widening the audience’s expectations, effectively changing the way anime was seen.

The collection released titles include the Neon Genesis Evangelion Series (1995-1996) and the movies; End of Evangelion (1997), Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone (2007), Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (2009), Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo (2012), Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021).

With the exception of End of Evangelion, the other movies serve as a retelling of the original story, however in different ways and contain spoilers if the viewer has not seen the original series. Hence one should watch those as well as the End of Evangelion movie, before embarking on the other 4 movies.

The main series has a total of 26 episodes, with some episodes commonly considered fillers. However, these episodes still hold vital information to the series’ plot and as a result, should not be skipped. Below is the list of episodes and the ones considered as fillers:

EPISODE LIST