Is it just an optical illusion, or are Rei and Shinji actually getting closer to one another? Asuka isn't too sure--but one thing you can be sure of is that she'll be giving this perception test a hard stare And on that note, is Asuka falling victim to the same baka-tivity that afflicts her childhood friend, as she decides to use some of Shinji's "techniques" to help bring Toji and Hikari closer together?

The famous final episode of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV show imagined the show's main characters in an alternate world where friendship and romance could be as important as their task to pilot the Evangelion. That premise forms the storyline of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Stunning, hot-headed Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always sort of assumed they'd stay together--until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami showed up in class When Shinji starts to get curious about Rei,...

Book Two introduces Mana Kirishima, the mysterious transfer student who might be more capable than even Rei and Asuka...and who's definitely more capable when it comes to making moves on Shinji The four of them will get a chance to show their elders what they can do (and hopefully not kill each other in the process) when Yui takes them all on a field trip to a facility run by her greatest rival from school¬--to see Japan's newest, nuclear-powered giant robot What could possibly go wrong?

Don't say "crazy" The campus culture festival is coming up for the students of Class 2-A, and in manga that means not only cosplay, but starting an all-girl band But what are they supposed to do about the fact that the keyboardist, Shinji, isn't, um, a girl? Well, that's when it's time for a little crossplay

Contains bonus color pages
Evangelion 3.33 movie now available from Funimation
The Shinji Ikari Raising Project ran for 18 volumes in Japan--more than the original series