Volume 6 (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Volume 6
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン Shin Seiki Evangelion
Author:	Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Publish date:	JP: December 15, 2000 US: August 31, 2004
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Volume 6 is the sixth edition of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's manga adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It is comprised of 7 stages.

Stage Overview

Stage 34: The Fourth Child

Kaji in the aqaurium instructs Shinji to think for himself, and to not just take the easy road and do what people tell him to do. Shinji believes that it's easier to look away, since the truth is often such a large burden that it is unshoulderable.

At Nerv, the personnel are discussing the vanishing of the Nerv-02 branch in Nevada. It was due to them trying to install an S2 engine into an Evangelion unit. The U.S. sent Nerv Unit-03 to be tested in Japan, but the pilot has yet to be found.

Shinji, Kensuke Aida, and Toji Suzuhara are walking home from school when Toji leaves them to see his sister in the hospital. Shinji asks Kensuke if he should go see Toji's sister just once. Kensuke tells him that Toji would have asked him to go, and that he hates it when people put sympathy on him. Shinji tells him that he understands Toji really well. Shinji then thinks that he doesn't understand anyone, not Rei, Misato, or Asuka, or his father.

At Nerv, Ritsuko Akagi and Gendo are discussing the Dummy Plug System. Ritsuko tells him that Rei's thinking patterns were digitized, but a human soul is incapable of that treatment. Gendo says that the Dummy Plug just makes an Eva believe it has a pilot, and it syncs with that signal from the Dummy Plug. He orders the Dummy Plug System to be put into Unit-01 and Unit-02, despite what Ritsuko says about there being problems with the system. About Unit-03, there will be a sync test at the Matsushiro base, and the Fourth Child will be selected. Ritsuko says there is one person that can pilot if "physiologically enhanced."

Shinji thinks back to the time when his mother disapeared into the Eva. He says that the memories are slipping through into his consciousness, but in pieces too small to put together. He wonders what truth is to him.

At school, Shinji and Toji are on cleanup duty. Toji hatches a plan to look up girl's skirts, but ends up being caught by Hikari Horaki, who causes Shinji and Toji to fall down the stairs.

Hikari apologizes and takes Shinji to clean up his scrape. She asks him if Toji ever talks about her, and if he likes Asuka. Shinji replies that he'd like a more "old fashioned" girl, to which Hikari smiles cheerfully in response.

Shinji tells Asuka later while they're at home that Hikari questioned him about Toji, and Asuka tells says to a surprised Shinji that that was because she likes Toji.

Misato finds out that the Fourth Child is Toji Suzuhara. She also thinks Ritsuko is hiding things from her since she didn't get a report from the Marduk Institute.

Stage 35: Light, Then Shadow

Toji is called to the principal's office where he meets Ritsuko, who gives him her card.

Asuka brings Shinji along to confront Hikari. She says that Hikari should confess because she might lose the opportunity. Shinji says that Hikari should make Toji a lunch, which would be a great icebreaker.

Misato meets Kaji in a Nerv breakroom, and she questions him about the Marduk Institute. He tells her that it doesn't exist, and that Nerv is pulling the strings.

Kensuke talks to Shinji about the Nerv branch in Nevada exploding, and about the startup test to take place in Matsushiro. Shinji is a little bothered that he was never told about these things, and then admits to having a bad feeling, that "...Something is stirring, somewhere...ominous..."

Kensuke leaves to go home and Shinji meets Toji, who was waiting for him. Toji says to Shinji, "Wanna come...back ta my house? Sometin' I gotta ask."

Stage 36: Confession

Asuka finds Kaji at Nerv working. She removes her shirt to prove she is not a child, and tells him her feelings for him. Kaji says that as an adult he cannot return her feelings, and that she only sees the exterior of him. Angered, Asuka questions him about his relationship with Misato. She accidently sees the sync data for the pilots, and finds out that the Fourth Child is Toji.

Shinji finished eating at Toji's house, and they start to clean the dishes. Shinji tells Toji that he's a good cook thinking that that was what Toji wanted to ask him. Toji says that he forgot what he wanted to ask him. He sees Shinji to the door, but stops him at the last minute.

Toji confesses to Shinji that he was chosen to pilot an Evangelion, and that he is afraid to do so. He only agreed to pilot so his sister could be transfered to the hospital at Nerv, where she'd recieve better care. Shinji tries to comfort him, saying you're safer in the Evangelion, but Toji breaks down and says, "I-I'm so sorry. I...I didn't even know how you felt...an' I hit you like I understood...anything."

At home, Shinji shows anger to Misato that Toji was chosen as a pilot, saying, "Why...did it have to be Toji?"

Misato says she'll be gone for four days. Also, it will just be the start-up test, so she says there will be no risk.

Eva Unit-03 is shown being transported by plane to Japan.

Stage 37: The Gift

Hikari waited to give Toji a lunch, but she was unable to give it to him. Toji said that when he returns back to school he'll tell her about his circumstances. He also says that they should try to be friends when he comes back.

Abnormally gloomy and pensive, Toji heads to the Matsushiro base.

Hikari finds Shinji on the rooftop of the school and gives him the lunch she made for Toji, saying she couldn't give it to him but "something good happened anyway."

The startup test has begun, but Unit-03 was infected by an Angel. The energy from the Angel causes a huge explosion to occur, and Shinji is called by Nerv. He is informed that there has been a problem and that he needs to get Asuka and Rei to Nerv immediately.

Stage 38: Ambush

Shinji, Asuka, and Rei are deployed in their Evas at Mt. Nobe to intercept Unit-03, which is now classified as the 13th Angel.

Units 00 and 02 are defeated by the Angel, leaving Shinji to contend with the infected Evangelion.

Stage 39: The Dummy System

Shinji expresses fear, and is hesitant to fight. The Angel begins to strangle Unit-01, with Shinji feeling the strangle as well. Gendo instructs him to fight, but Shinji refuses. He says, "...Can't fight...m'friend...m'friend is n' there..." Gendo replies with, "Then you'll die." Shinji says, "Better than...killing my friend!"

Gendo instructs Maya to cut the sync between Shinji and Unit-01, then has the sync circuit switched to the Dummy Plug. Shinji can no longer control the Eva Unit-01, which at this time has begun to strangle Unit-03.

Stage 40: Staining the Twilight Black

Shinji witnesses Unit-01, controlled by the Dummy Plug, crush Unit-03's entry plug.

Toji was pronounced dead when he was pulled from the entry plug. It was a death that Shinji sat by and watched.

Hikari that night prepares a lunch for Toji. She envisions herself sharing it with him on the rooftop of the school.

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