Parents guide

Most of the nudity is not detailed. However, later releases saw a "Director's Cut" version of certain episodes. This version added nipples to certain nude characters. Genitalia were still left not shown.

A teen girl is in love with an older man (her guardian) and sometimes makes subtle sexual advances to him, which he always declines.

Sexuality is a common theme in the show, especially the sexuality that is being developed by teenagers. It is explored in a psychological way though, and it not meant to sexualise any of the characters.

An adult woman jokes about being attracted to a teen boy.

Characters are sometimes shown bathing or getting dressed, but any nudity is obscured by clothing, water or other such objects.

One of the main male characters has an uncomfortably close relationship with a teen girl. Some viewers may interpret as sexual in nature.

In the Netflix version, Rei's nipple is shown briefly.

In the intro female characters naked outlines can be seen. No nipple is shown but the out line of their genitalia is seen.

A boy accidentally looks up a girls skirt before she slaps him. As revenge he pushes his pants down (his butt is briefly seen) before she slaps him again.

Some scenes where a female character is getting dressed shows the ring around their nipple.

The majority of violence in the show is between cybernetic machines. In many fight scenes involving these mechs a red liquid that is clearly meant to resemble blood can be seen. There are also aliens called angels which will often spray a large amount of red, blood-like liquid when killed.

A character's body is shown hanging, but it is not very detailed. This is shown multiple times throughout the show.

A man is shot, but the screen cuts to black before we can see the bullet hit him.

A character is decapitated, but it is seen from very far away so it lacks a lot of detail.

The Eva's and Angels seem to have blood, guts and organs just like a human, we see them being ripped apart and destroyed with lots of blood and some gore multiple times throughout the second half of the series

Severe violence, with lots of violent moments (weapons, explosions, etc.), which leads to injuries and deaths.

Most of the early episodes are less bloody, but the later ones can get pretty graphic.

We see battles between the protagonist Evas and antagonist Angels (both biological beings), with blood spraying frequently.

An Eva is shot through the face with an Angel's weapon, spraying massive amounts of "blood".

An Angel's face is destroyed by a punch from a Eva, briefly splattering blood everywhere. Blood is then shown on the surroundings.

In one episode in the Netflix English dub, Toji tells Shinji he used to think he was a real "S. O. B". Aside from that (which can be highly debated as the word isn't fully used), the Netflix dub lacks profanity.

A child calls an older woman a "hag". This is in no way played for laughs; rather it is intended to disgust the viewer.

Occasional uses of 'bastard', 'damn', 'goddamn', and 'hell' in the subtitles. 'Bitch' is used more rarely. There is a single F-bomb.

The ADV Films dub has around the same amount of profanity, though with the occasionally added use of "shit". Asuka, a main character, will often say "scheiße", the German equivalent to it, also in one episode she says "Dummkopf" which means 'idiot'/'dumbhead' in English.

A major character, Ritsuko, smokes and is shown smoking. This is never glorified or glamorized. She is an adult.

The adult characters go out drinking, and the effects of alcohol on a woman to feel more comfortable with a partner of hers are depicted.

There is a scene where an adult female major character gets heavily intoxicated. She opens up to a man she is in a strained relationship with, and says "it's just the alcohol talking" (in the original subs). She vomits. It is not shown on-camera. She reflects that she is too old to be going out and throwing up from intoxication.

An older female character is an alcoholic. Focus is shifted away from this almost entirely later on in the series, and there are very little scenes that show her dependence.

4 or 5 instances of casual beer drinking from a female character, as her house is cluttered with beer cans. We see her drink heavily a couple of times later on. It is implied she is an alcoholic. This is mostly played for laughs though.

Occasional scenes of smoking and a few shots of ashtrays. These are never relevant to the story.

The show overall is very psychologically dense and surreal. It starts off normal yet bizarre, but it becomes more and more confusing as it progresses, with some episodes having very long abstract sequences, and dealing with heavy themes such as family abuse, suicide, mental illness (trauma, depression, anxiety), religious imagery/symbolism and existentialism.

Some scene involve flashing images.

The final episodes can be extremely emotional

We briefly see part of EVA Unit 01's head with none of the metal restraints, it is quite disturbing to look at as it has human teeth. The EVA units themselves when going berserk are frightening, as they make strange noises and have human teeth that are almost permanently smiling (in a similar vain to the xenomorphs from the Alien series)

One of the character's mind gets attacked, and goes insane, leading for them to go into a coma. It can be very intense and hard to watch.

Since the show is very abstract and psychological, it's quite hard to understand what is going on and it's all very confusing.

The series becomes unpleasant and/or disturbing in the later episodes, and it contains intense violence.

Grotesque imagery is shown infrequently, with most of it being in the final episodes.

The last few episodes could be mentally distressing.

Characters can be dysfunctional/disturbed and some go through mental trauma in a handful of episodes.