Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 学園堕天録) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ming Ming based on the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. It was serialized in the shōjo manga magazine Monthly Asuka between 2007 and 2009, published by Kadokawa Shoten, and is also available in the PlayStation Store. It has been collected in four volumes. Many of the main characters from Neon Genesis Evangelion return, including Shinji Ikari, Rei Ayanami, Kaworu Nagisa, Asuka Langley Soryu, Toji Suzuhara, Misato Katsuragi, and Kensuke Aida. Despite using the same characters, story, and setting, it differs from the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga. Since August 2010, an official English translation of the series has been published by Dark Horse Comics.

Plot

Shinji Ikari is a boy who attends the NERV Foundation Academy and lives a relatively boring but peaceful life. During a typical outing at night to a nearby vending machine, he witnesses Rei Ayanami and another boy he has never seen before fleeing from the scene of a violent explosion. While startled by the incident, he finds an unusual gem. The next day, he meets Kaworu Nagisa, a transfer student to the NERV Foundation Academy who is the boy Shinji had seen the previous night. When Shinji tries to discover the truth behind Rei's relationship with Kaworu, he soon finds himself forcibly recruited to assist them and Asuka Langley Soryu in fighting against Angels. The Angels are beings who wish to destroy humanity by obtaining "Cores", one of which is the gem that Shinji found. Shinji soon receives an "EVA", the manifestation of the most powerful form of his will, to combat the Angels. While accompanying the group on their nightly city patrols and investigating strange phenomena, Shinji must protect civilians who are disappearing, though in reality have been killed by Angels and used as vessels, and conceal the truth from his friends.

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