Extracanonical Mecha

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Extracanonical Mecha

Evangelions, Angels, and more traditional "mecha" (i.e., robots) located outside of the main series canon and not considered to warrant their own pages.

Evangelions

	Evangelion Type β (エヴァンゲリオン乙型, Evangerion Otsugata) Appearances: Evangelion Detective (debut), Battle Orchestra Alternate Designation: Evangelion Unit-β (エヴァンゲリオン乙号機, Evangerion Otsugouki) Pilot: Kaworu Nagisa.
	Evangelion Unit-α (エヴァンゲリオン甲号機, Evangerion Kougouki) Appearance: Battle Orchestra Sister unit of Eva-β, produced in secrecy by Seele.

Angels

Unnamed Angel

Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion (Sega Saturn). Designed by Ikuto Yamashita.

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Insubstantial Angel

Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Second Impression (Sega Saturn) Design: Mahiro Maeda An Angel whose design concept seems to take what Ritsuko said about Sandalphon's "chrysalis" to heart, by having the entity go through larval and pupal (chrysalis) stages before reaching adulthood ("imago"). It has no known name, although its Bandai Carddass cards refer to it as "Insubstantial Angel". Its core is contained within the body of Mayumi Yamagishi.

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"Diemay Angel"

Appearance: Illustration by Yo Yoshinari from Animage 3/96 During NGE's original airing in Japan, a contest took place wherein original Angel designs were submitted to Gainax by viewers. The favored submission would appear in an original illustration by one of the Gainax artists. The results were published in the March 1996 issue of Animage, with the winner being Satou "Diemay" Daimei of Tokyo. His Angel was drawn by Yo Yoshinari in a face-off against Eva-01 in an image entitled "Eva's Final Battle" ("Eva Saishû Kessen"), with the note that the image had nothing to do with the actual ending that would eventually air. Diemay's sketch includes the following notes: Angel's height: 100 m The core is on its forehead. The projection on the forehead is the Angel's "Charm Point". The first pair of arms contain "Deutron Rifles", which are, according to Diemay, "more powerful than the Positron Rifles of the Evas". The second pair bear claws of some sort.

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Iblis (イブリース) Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG: The Nerv White Paper

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Barakijal (バラキエル) Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG: The Nerv White Paper

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(no known image)

Raziel （ラジエル) Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion Proposal A "metallic giant", and the first Angel (or "Apostolo", rather) to attack Tokyo-3 in an earlier draft of the story.

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	Shateiel （シャテイエル) Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion Proposal Unused Angel concept. The "Angel of Silence", an "optical combat weapon" enshrouded by a rotating, crystal-like, multifaceted plate. It absorbs and stores (electro)magnetic energy, which it can then convert and use in attacks. The converted energy is apparently released through the core-like orbs on either end of its symmetrical body.
	Turel （テゥレル) Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion Proposal Unused Angel concept. "Angel of the Rock of God", a floating white "monolith" with an appearance like a face crowned by four spikes and wearing a very tall, steep miter adorned with a blue gem. It is extremely powerful, seems impervious to all attack, and steadfastly seeks out its target(s) with the aim of self-destruction.

Robots

T-RIDEN-T Land Cruiser

Appearance: Girlfriend of Steel
Design: Ikuto Yamashita

Color scheme concept for Shinden

Eva-02 with the wrecked Raiden

A series of large combat robots developed by the JSSDF. As they were intended for use in a future conflict, their designated pilots began training young, and at the time of the game's events are the same age as the Eva pilots. Only two T-RIDEN-Ts are known to have been produced, designated Shinden and Raiden, piloted by Musashi Lee Strasberg and Keita Asari respectively. The exact status of the third child soldier, Mana Kirishima, requires further confirmation.

Both Keita and Musashi escape from the JSSDF with the mecha in tow to the Hakone region, getting Nerv involved in the incident. Raiden is totaled, and its pilot seriously injured, after falling over the edge of a waterfall. Shinden initially escapes detection by hiding in Ashinoko during the day, but it is lured out when Mana is used as bait. After being taken down by the Evas in a joint operation between the JSSDF and Nerv, it is annihilated with an N2 bomb.

Nearly all information on the T-RIDEN-Ts derives from the Shinden model. [Notes on modes of locomotion, weaponry, etc., go here.]

Name

Production drawing of Shinden

Yamashita comments on the mecha's name: Since the creation process was completely finished, I was finally given notification of the official names: "Shinden" and "Raiden". Because I had wanted a class designation in the original name, the "mu" [矛] of "Gamu" [臥矛, the mecha's temp name] was added onto "Raiden" as "T-RIDEN-T Class Land Cruiser".

To elaborate on the Japanese wordplay here: The second character in "Gamu" (臥矛), pronounced either mu or hoko (depending on context), means "halberd" or "pike", and "sansa no hoko" (三叉の矛, literally "three-pronged halberd") means "trident". Additionally, the English word "trident" converts into Japanese syllables as toraidento, which, coincidentally, contains "raiden": to-raiden-to. Converted back into Roman letters with emphasis on this "container effect", it becomes "T-riden-t".

JA′

Japanese Designation: JA 改 (JA Kai)
Appearance: Neon Genesis Evangelion 2
Design: Ikuto Yamashita

A variant of the Jet Alone produced by the same organization, Japan Heavy Chemical Industries. It carries an onboard N2 reactor, as opposed to the original JA's nuclear reactor. It constantly vents stream from the wavy exhaust pipes emerging from its back, and maintains a large tank of coolant (water), attached to its hindquarters. During extended periods of operation, the tank must be replenished with fresh coolant from a nearby water body via the supply tube emerging from the tank. Other changes include more robust limbs as opposed to the seemingly flimsy ones of the first Jet Alone, and the large hammer with a central disc which it wields as a weapon. It appears during the battle with the Mass Production Eva and is forced to retreat along with Shiro Tokita when it runs out of power.

JA′ was designed by Ikuto Yamashita at the behest of the game's producer, Yoshihiro Okamoto. Of the design itself, Yamashita said, "If I made it too cool, it wouldn't be JA, so I tried hard [to keep it dorky]."

Other Sources

• Neon Genesis Evangelion Proposal
• Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG: The Nerv White Paper

Evangelions

Evangelions (general)

Failed Evangelion Prototypes | Simulation Bodies

Eva-00 | Eva-01 | Eva-02 | Eva-03 | Eva-04 | Mass Production Evangelions (Evas 05~13)

Rebuild of Evangelion: Mark.04 | Eva-05 | Mark.06 | Eva-08 | Mark.09 | Eva-13

Eva 8+2 | Mass Production Evangelions | Failures of Infinity

Other: Extracanonical Evas

Angels

Angels (general)

First and Second Angels (Seeds of Life): Adam | Lilith

Third to Seventeenth Angels (Adam's Children):

Sachiel | Shamshel | Ramiel | Gaghiel | Israfel | Sandalphon | Matarael | Sahaquiel

Ireul | Leliel | Bardiel | Zeruel | Arael | Armisael | Tabris

Eighteenth Angel: Lilin

Rebuild of Evangelion: ?Adams? | Lilith | 3rd Angel | 4th Angel | 5th Angel | 6th Angel | 7th Angel | 8th Angel | 9th Angel | 10th Angel | 11th Angel | 12th Angel | 1st/13th Angel

Other: Extracanonical Angels