Gendo Ikari Friends

The leader of the Seele organization and head of the Human Instrumentality Comittee

Misato Katsuragi is the chief tactical officer at NERV's Japan Branch in Tokyo-3, and Shinji Ikari's self-appointed guardian. She's the only survivor of the Second Impact. She aims to defeat the Angels and save humanity.

Ritsuko's mother and creator of the MAGI computer system. She was in love with Gendo but discovered she was being used by him. She died after killing Rei 1 but her cause of death was never revealed.

Rei Ayanami is the enigmatic first child and the pilot of Eva Unit 00. She also shares a small relationship with Shinji

Although estranged, Shinji reluctantly agrees to help his father rid of the Angels.

Shinji Ikari's late mother and the wife of Gendo Ikari. Yui died in 2004 as a result of her Contact Experiment with Eva-01, but lives as a soul within the Eva as eternal proof of humanity's existence.