Forced without warning by Gendo into piloting Eva Unit-01, an untrained and terrified Shinji is beaten unconscious in his first sortie, only to have the Eva defeat the Angel on its own! Recovering from an encounter he neither understand or remembers, Shinji is disregarded yet again by the father from whom he desperately seeks approval. Moving in with his commanding officer, Capt. Katsuragi, Shinji sets out to school to try and start a normal life?

Is This Backwards?
No, this really is back cover (not the front cover)! The Special collector's Edition of the Neon Genesis Evangelion graphic novel preserves the original right-to-left orientation of the artwork, just as it was drawn and printed in Japan. To begin reading, Please turn this book around and open it from the other side.