Asuka joins Shinji's class at school and moves in with Misato and him in their apartment. As Asuka adjusts to Japão (and everyone else adapts to her), the angel Israfel attacks.
Misato brings Shinji and his friends Toji and Kensuke on a flight to a UN carrier battlegroup which is transporting Evangelion Unit 02 and its fiery German pilot, Asuka Langley Soryu, to Japão
Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, NERV's chief scientist, explains to Shinji mais of the classified real nature of segundo Impact, the Angels, and the mission of the Evangelions to defeat them