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There’s a ton of “Evangelion” esoteric with no impact on the mainline anime and is really intended only for those who are already hardcore fans. It would be pointless to make a viewing or reading order for these non-canonical spinoffs unless you wanted to go purely by chronological order of release. We’ve placed this entry after the original series but before the “Rebuild of Evangelion” movies to emphasize just how omnipresent the series was in Japanese pop culture — even before the reboot.
Did you like the scene in Episode 26 where we see an alternate universe where Shinji and the other pilots are just ordinary high schoolers? There are a lot of spinoffs based around that universe, including the manga series “Angelic Days” and “The Shinji Ikari Raising Project,” the latter of which also has a video game. Want your high school antics to be even sillier? There’s the chibi-style “Petit Eva” sub-franchise, which consists of manga, CGI web anime, and a Nintendo DS game.
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For some reason, people like seeing the “Evangelion” characters involved in detective mysteries — thus the manga “The Shinji Ikari Detective Diary” and the “Ace Attorney” rip-off PS2 game “Detective Evangelion.” “Evangelion” video games have taken on many different genres, from rhythm games, dating sims, typing games, and even a virtual pet of Adam. For a reminder that “Evangelion,” despite its extreme content, is still somehow marketed towards children, watch the crossover episode of the kiddy anime “Shinkalion” where Shinji Ikari shows up.
