The nymphs are departed. For case in point, Nerv can be regarded as the exact same as the Solo Ship combating a lonely struggle from each humankind and the Buff Clan, and then there are the incomprehensible robots that can only talk with small children and tend to go berserk, and so on. It may possibly not be an exaggeration to say that if you include "Ideon" and "Devilman" alongside one another and divide by two, you get "Evangelion".