When most people think of anime, they think of large eyed adolescents fighting fearsome monsters. While this is partly the case for Neon Genesis Evangelion, this is only a surface understanding of the show. he experiences the young adolescents face and the amount of secrecy that large organizations maintain makes Neon Genesis Evangelion writhe with philosophical themes, spanning areas such as existentialism, politics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, religion, and psychology.