Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project
A of the same name, by Takahashi Osamu, was serialized in Shōnen Ace and published by Kadokawa between March 2005 and May 2016. It totaled 18 volumes in length. Both the game and manga introduce three new female Nerv technicians: (voiced by Ai Shimizu), (voiced by Maria Yamamoto), and (voiced by Yui Horie). Plot. The game features three main story routes, known as Thanatos, Pathos and Campus, respectively. Each route goes for a different amount of "episodes", which can last between two and eight weeks of in-game time and focus on a  specific segment of the story. Which route the player ends up on is primarily determined by the hidden Independence parameter. The Thanatos route loosely adapts the story of the original show and spans 26 episodes. The first seven episodes of this route are compulsory in every playthrough. Like the original series, this route sees main character, Shinji, summoned to Nerv by his estranged father, Gendo Ikari, and tasked with piloting an Evangelion unit. He is placed under care of Misato Katsuragi, who functions as his guardian and parental figure. He and the other pilots, Rei Ayanami and later, Asuka Langley  Soryu, must fight alien-like beings called Angels in order to prevent a disaster called the "Third Impact" from occurring. While it cuts out and changes certain things from the original series, the Thanatos route does not diverge from Neon Genesis Evangelion's plot in a substantial way. It adapts up to a brief version of ""The Beast That Shouted "I" At The Heart of the World"", and most endings it can culminate in resemble the final scene of "The End of Evangelion" After episode 7, the player will have the ability to move to and from Thanatos and the  Pathos route, a version of events which follows basically the same plot outline but in a more comedic fashion. This route sees Shinji and the other characters doing a number of recreational activities to progress in the story, such as selling ice-cream, camping and synchronized swimming. This route also sees both Toji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida becoming Eva pilots. It culminates in the Third Impact being prevented, as well as a number of additional, optional endings determined by the player's stats. Starting in episode 21, the third route, Campus, which loosely adapts the alternate, slice-of-life-esque  world presented in episode 26 of the original series, may be unlocked by the player. This route sees Shinji attending class in a universe with no Evas or Angels, living a normal life as a teenage boy, where the staff at Nerv are now his teachers and the original "Evangelion" series is a fictional work written by him and Kaworu Nagisa in class. Mana Kirishima, the secondary protagonist of previous Evangelion video game , is also now one of the students of class 2-A, and his mother, Yui Ikari, is alive and away on international work. This path culminates in  one of two ways: either the player chooses to have Shinji end the "Evangelion" story with 'a happy ending in the new world', and the path will continue until episode 26 and give the player one of several Campus-specific ending combinations, or they will choose to end it by returning to the original world, and the path will terminate on episode 24 and return to the Pathos route instead. All three main routes can be identified by the player by looking at the dialogue box shown in each episode. The Thanatos route's dialogue box has a dark grey  border with the words 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' embedded above the character portrait. The Pathos route's dialogue box is a lighter grey with two green stripes on either side of the character portrait. The Campus route's dialogue box is purple with a gold trim around the edges. After episode 21, the player is locked into the route they're on, except in the case of Campus, which allows the player to decide between it and the Pathos route on episode 24. The game also features an additional route, "Kaworu Nagisa Education Project," which is unlocked when the player finishes  a single playthrough of the main game. This route spans a single episode and sees the player take control of both Kaworu and Ritsuko Akagi in the place of Shinji and Misato. Ritsuko is tasked by Seele with educating Kaworu, their goal being for Kaworu to seduce Shinji, to distract him and allow them to use Unit-01 as the helm of the Human Instrumentality Project. This route can culminate in four endings. Gameplay. Every Sunday, the player, as Misato, will be asked to set 12 scheduled activities for Shinji to complete over the course of the following week, one in  the morning and one in the afternoon of each day until Saturday. The player may pick from a set of 12 standard activities and 18 extra activities that rotate depending on where they are in the story. Picking certain activities will impact Shinji's parameters, which in turn influence the story the player sees unfold. Some episodes also contain a battle against an Angel, in which Shinji and the other Evangelion pilots must fight off the enemy. Battles. Angel battles occur in most episodes. These battles will generally conclude one of two ways: in the first, Shinji and any other  pilots involved will defeat the angel using their weaponry, and in the second, Unit-01 will go berserk after taking too much damage and the angel will be destroyed that way instead. New and more powerful weapons for battle can be obtained using the NERV Official Work feature in the Sunday menu. The battle menu contains several options: Endings. Each route in the game has its own set of endings. All routes have endings determined by Shinji's affection parameters, with the owner of the highest affection (or Kaworu, if the others are all low) being the focus of the ending . Some endings also see Shinji taking on a career path and are determined by his other parameters, primarily physical strength, sex appeal and morality; these are found in both the Pathos and Campus routes, and come in combination with a relationship ending. Manga. The "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project" manga is loosely based on the game of the same name's Campus route. The manga diverges from the original "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and shares several plot divergences with "".