Free Neon Genesis Evangelion Coloring Pages: 60+ printable PDF pages featuring Asuka Langley Sohryu, Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, Kaworu Nagisa, Mari Makinami, Misato Katsuragi, Evangelion Unit 01, Unit 02, chibi pages, group pages, and Rei in a ruined city. All free, download PDF to print, or color online.
This set divides cleanly into two coloring worlds. The character pages, pilots in plugsuits, portraits, and scene pages, are centered on human figures in color-coded form-fitting suits, where the palette of the suit tells you who the pilot is before anything else. The Eva unit pages are something different: large-scale biomechanical machines with complex surface textures, deep shadow areas, and the challenge of making an alien mechanical form feel both industrial and alive. Getting either type right requires a different approach, and the set has enough of both to practice each thoroughly.
The pages are divided into two types. Portrait and pilot pages, Asuka in her red plugsuit, Rei in white-blue, Shinji and Kaworu together, reward careful attention to each pilot’s palette. Eva unit and action pages, Unit 01 in dark purple and green, Unit 02 in vivid red, Rei in a ruined city, shift the focus to scale, surface texture, and the darkness that makes the units imposing. Simpler chibi and portrait pages suit younger fans; the detailed Eva unit and scene pages give older fans more to work through.
These pages work well at home or as anime fan art. These are fan-made coloring pages and are not official, licensed, or endorsed by the creators or rights holders of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion coloring pages are a free set of 60+ printable PDFs and online coloring sheets covering Asuka Langley Sohryu, Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, Kaworu Nagisa, Mari Makinami, Eva Unit 01, Unit 02, and many group and scene pages. Each pilot’s plugsuit color is their visual identity code, and the Eva units bring a separate and more demanding coloring challenge.
Best for: NGE fans, anime fans, mecha fans, teens and adults, and anyone who enjoys both character portrait and mechanical/biomechanical coloring
Formats: printable PDF and online coloring
Popular characters: Asuka Langley Sohryu, Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, Eva Unit 01, and Unit 02
Creative uses: fan art practice, pilot plugsuit color studies, Eva unit surface texture work, Rei in ruined city atmospheric coloring, and group pilot displays
What’s Inside Neon Genesis Evangelion Coloring Pages
Asuka Langley Sohryu Coloring Pages
Asuka has the largest share of pages in the set: Asuka Langley, Asuka Langley Sohryu, Sohryu Asuka Langley, Sohryu Asuka Langley with long hair, Sohryu Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion Asuka Langley, Neon Genesis Evangelion Asuka Langley Sohryu, Neon Genesis Evangelion Sohryu Asuka Langley, Beautiful Asuka Langley Sohryu, Cute Asuka Langley Sohryu, Lovely Asuka Langley Sohryu, Asuka Langley sitting, Asuka Langley Sohryu with Candy, Asuka Langley with weapons, Asuka Langley driving a car robot, Asuka Langley 02, Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion 1, Asuka Langley Evangelion Unit 02, and duo and group pages.
Coloring Asuka: Asuka’s defining features are her long auburn-red hair and her red plug suit with its yellow-orange trim and the number 02 marking. Her eyes are a vivid blue. On portrait pages, the hair is the primary identifier: a warm, saturated reddish-auburn that reads as vivid against any background. Her plaid suit is a deep, slightly orange-tinted red, darker and richer than fire-engine red. On the candy and sitting pages, she wears more casual clothing, but her hair color remains the same. On the weapons and Unit 02 action pages, she carries the same vivid presence: bold, saturated, and uncompromising throughout.
Rei Ayanami Coloring Pages
Rei Ayanami appears across many pages: Rei Ayanami, Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rei Ayanami Neon Genesis Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion Rei Ayanami, Sad Rei Ayanami, Cute Rei Ayanami, Rei Ayanami in a ruined city, and Rei Ayanami Evangelion Unit 00.
Coloring Rei: Rei’s palette is the quietest in the set. Her hair is short and a pale blue-grey, her eyes are a muted red or dark pink, and her skin is very pale. Her plaid suit is white with light blue accents. Everything about her design is reduced and still. On standard portrait pages, keep the hair a genuinely pale blue-grey, not vivid blue: the coolness and softness are the point. On the ruined city page, the desolate setting, grey rubble, and a dark or orange-sunset sky, is the most atmospheric page in the set, and suits a limited, desaturated palette with the sunset as the only warm element.
Shinji Ikari and Kaworu Nagisa Pages
Shinji Ikari appears in solo and group pages: Shinji Ikari Evangelion Unit 01, Shinji Ikari and Misato Katsuragi, Shinji Ikari and Kaworu Nagisa, Unit 01 Shinji Ikari, and group pages including Shinji Ikari, Rei Ayanami, and Shinji Ikari Asuka Langley. Kaworu Nagisa appears in Nagisa Kaworu from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji Ikari and Kaworu Nagisa, and group pages.
Coloring Shinji and Kaworu: Shinji’s plug suit is white with purple accents, matching Unit 01’s dark purple palette. His hair is dark brown, and his eyes are blue. Kaworu has white or pale silver hair, rose-red eyes, and wears a white SEELE suit rather than a standard plug suit. His overall palette is pale and cool, similar to Rei’s in quietness but with a warmer undertone. On the Shinji and Kaworu duo page, the contrast between Shinji’s dark hair and Kaworu’s pale hair is the visual anchor: keep both clearly distinct while holding both in the cool, restrained register that defines this pairing.
Mari Makinami Pages
Mari Makinami appears in three pages: Mari Makinami, Mari Makinami Neon Genesis Evangelion, and group pages including Mari Makinami, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Langley, and Asuka Langley Rei Ayanami Mari Makinami.
Coloring Mari: Mari has dark brown hair worn in twin pigtails, green eyes behind round glasses, and a pink-and-white plaid suit. Her design is more playful and casual than Rei or Asuka, and the pink suit sets her apart from the series’s heavier palette. On group pages with Asuka and Rei, the three suits, red, white-blue, and pink, make each pilot immediately identifiable: keep all three suit colors clearly differentiated.
Eva Unit Pages
The Evangelion units appear across many pages: Unit 01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Unit 02 from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Unit 01 Neon Genesis Evangelion, Evangelion Unit 01, Shinji Ikari Evangelion Unit 01, Rei Ayanami Evangelion Unit 00, Asuka Langley Evangelion Unit 02, Robot from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Robot from Anime, Robot Eva, Neon Genesis Evangelion Robot, Robots run to fight, and Chibi Robot Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Coloring the Eva units: each unit has a specific color code that is also its pilot’s identity. Unit 01 is dark purple with green highlights and yellow-green eyes: the most complex palette of the three, where the purple and green need to read as distinct despite both being dark. Unit 02 is vivid red-orange with yellow trim and a darker red for the deeper shadow areas: the most immediately striking unit. Unit 00 is light blue-white, clinical, and restrained like its pilot. On all unit pages, the surface texture matters: the units are biomechanical, partly organic and partly mechanical, and using slightly warmer shadow tones in the recessed areas gives the surface a biological quality that makes them feel more unsettling than a purely mechanical robot would.
Group and Scene Pages
Several pages show multiple characters together: Shinji Ikari Rei Ayanami Kaworu Nagisa, Shinji Ikari Asuka Langley Rei Ayanami, Asuka Langley Rei Ayanami Shinji Ikari Kaworu Nagisa, Mari Makinami Rei Ayanami Asuka Langley, Asuka Langley Rei Ayanami Mari Makinami, and Chibi Shinji Ikari Asuka Langley.
Coloring group pages: the plug suits are the solution to any group page. Each pilot’s suit is a different color: red for Asuka, white-blue for Rei, white-purple for Shinji, pink-white for Mari, and those colors do the work of differentiating the figures before any facial detail is needed. On the full-cast page, assigning each suit color before starting prevents any confusion between the closely posed figures.
Printable PDF and Online NGE Coloring Pages
Every design comes in two ways: a printable PDF for paper, or the same artwork colored on screen.
Using both formats: print the PDF when you want a clean sheet for pencils, markers, or fine-liners, and use the on-screen version when there is no printer nearby. The PDF holds the series’ complex linework, including the Eva unit surface detail and the ruined city environment, cleanly on standard letter or A4 paper.
What These Pages Do
Neon Genesis Evangelion is the only series in this set that asks you to color both a human figure and a biomechanical machine as part of the same character concept: Asuka is her red plug suit and Unit 02 simultaneously. Working through the pilot pages and then the unit pages for the same character is a study in how the same color identity reads at two different scales: a saturated red that works for a plug suit must carry shadow depth, highlight, and texture on the curved organic panels of Unit 02 without becoming muddy. That skill, adapting a consistent color across forms and scales, applies to any illustration work involving characters and their associated objects.
The American Art Therapy Association describes everyday coloring as recreation and self-care rather than clinical therapy. For an NGE fan, working through an Asuka portrait or a Unit 01 page is a focused, screen-free activity built around one of anime’s most complex and influential series. The American Academy of Pediatrics points to creative, imaginative activities as a recognized part of healthy development, and the range here, from the simple chibi pages to the detailed Eva unit surface work, gives fans of different skill levels something genuinely suited to where they are.
How to Color Neon Genesis Evangelion Coloring Pages
These steps work for any page in the set, from a pilot portrait to a full Eva unit scene.
Use plug suit colors as the first color placed on any pilot page. The plug suits are color-coded identifiers: red for Asuka, white-blue for Rei, white-purple for Shinji, pink-white for Mari. Placing the suit color first establishes the character’s visual identity before the facial features are even filled in, and it prevents any confusion on group pages with multiple pilots.
On Eva unit pages, build the surface with three tones: base, shadow, and a warm recessed tone. Unit 01’s dark purple needs a slightly lighter purple for the raised panels and a near-black for the deepest recesses. Unit 02’s red needs a vivid mid-red for the main surface and a deep burgundy-red in the shadow areas. That warmer tone in the recesses gives the surface a biological quality that distinguishes these machines from purely mechanical robots.
On the Rei in ruined city page, use a desaturated palette with one warm accent. The grey rubble and broken environment suit cool greys and muted tones throughout. A single warm element, an amber or orange-red sunset in the upper portion of the page, provides the atmospheric contrast that makes the desolation readable. Everything else stays cool and muted, so the warm sky reads as the only source of warmth in the scene.
On Asuka portrait pages, keep the hair a warm, saturated auburn, not red. Asuka’s hair is often described as red but reads more accurately as a warm reddish-auburn: deeper and more orange-brown than a true red, with warm golden highlights in the lighter areas. This distinction matters because her plaid suit is already the red in her palette: the hair needs to read as a different, warmer tone so the two elements do not compete.
On Kaworu pages, match the pale cool palette to Rei’s register, not Shinji’s. Kaworu’s white hair and pale skin sit in the same cool, restrained register as Rei. On the Shinji and Kaworu duo page, the contrast between Shinji’s warmer dark hair and Kaworu’s pale cool palette creates the visual difference between the two. Do not warm up Kaworu’s palette to bring it closer to Shinji’s: the cool distance is part of the character.
5 Creative Craft Ideas with Neon Genesis Evangelion Coloring Pages
Pilot and Unit Color Pair
Color a solo Asuka portrait page and the Unit 02 page using the same red palette at two different scales, showing how the same color identity reads on a human figure and on a massive mechanical form.
Mount both side by side with the labels “Pilot” and “Unit” for a character study that takes about thirty-five minutes.
Rei in Ruined City Display
Color the Rei Ayanami in a ruined city page using a desaturated, cool-grey palette for the environment and a single warm amber-orange accent for the sky.
Mount on a dark card as a standalone atmospheric display. The project takes about twenty-five minutes and is the most visually distinctive page in the set.
Pilot Plugsuit Strip
Color one pilot page each for Asuka (red), Rei (white-blue), Shinji (white-purple), and Mari (pink-white).
Cut all four to the same height and mount in a row on a card with each pilot’s name below for a four-pilot color-code display. Takes about forty minutes.
Asuka and Rei Contrast Pair
Color a solo Asuka page in warm, saturated auburn and red, and a solo Rei page in cool, pale blue-grey and white.
Mount both side by side for a warm-versus-cool pilot contrast pair that takes about twenty-five minutes.
Eva Unit 01 Surface Study
Color the Evangelion Unit 01 page using three tones of purple: a mid-purple for the main surface panels, a lighter purple-grey for the raised highlights, and a deep near-black for the recessed shadow areas.
Mount as a standalone mechanical surface study. Takes about twenty-five minutes.
FAQ About Neon Genesis Evangelion Coloring Pages
Are these Neon Genesis Evangelion coloring pages free, and can I color them online?
Yes. Every page is free, with no account, email, or payment required. Download the PDF to print at home, or color the design on screen in the browser.
Which characters are included?
The set covers Asuka Langley Sohryu, Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, Kaworu Nagisa, Mari Makinami, and Misato Katsuragi, along with Eva Unit 01, Unit 02, and general unit pages across solo, duo, group, and scene pages.
What is Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Neon Genesis Evangelion is a Japanese anime series created by Hideaki Anno and produced by Gainax, broadcast from 1995 to 1996. It follows 14-year-old Shinji Ikari and other young pilots who operate giant biomechanical weapons called Evangelion units to defend against beings known as Angels.
What colors should I use for Asuka Langley Sohryu?
Asuka has warm reddish-auburn hair and blue eyes. Her plaid suit is a vivid red with yellow-orange trim and the number 02. The hair is a warm reddish-auburn, deeper and more orange-brown than a true red, so it does not compete visually with the red plaid suit. Both elements need to read as red-range but at clearly different tones.
What colors should I use for Rei Ayanami?
Rei has short pale blue-grey hair, muted dark-pink or red eyes, and very pale skin. Her suit is white with light blue-grey accents. Keep the hair a genuinely pale, cool blue-grey rather than vivid blue: Rei’s palette is about quietness and restraint, not saturation.
How do I color the Eva units?
Each unit is color-coded: Unit 01 is dark purple with green highlights; Unit 02 is vivid red-orange; Unit 00 is light blue-white. Build each unit surface with three tones: a base color, a lighter raised-panel tone, and a darker shadow tone, and add a slightly warm recessed tone to give the surface a biological rather than purely metallic quality.
What makes the Rei in the ruined city page distinctive?
The ruined city page is the most atmospheric in the set. It works best with a largely desaturated, cool grey palette for the rubble and environment, with a single warm amber or orange-red accent for the sky. Everything stays muted, so the warm sky reads as the only source of light and warmth in the scene.
Are the chibi pages suitable for younger fans?
Yes. The chibi pages and simpler pilot portrait pages suit younger fans well. The detailed Eva unit pages and the ruined city scene are better suited to older fans who want more technically demanding coloring work.
Are these official Neon Genesis Evangelion coloring pages?
No. They are fan-made coloring sheets created by fans for personal use. They are not affiliated with, licensed by, or endorsed by the creators or rights holders of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
What crafts can I make with these pages?
Popular options include a pilot and unit color pair, a Rei in ruined city display, a pilot plugsuit strip, an Asuka and Rei contrast pair, and an Eva Unit 01 surface study.
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For the final pass: use plug suit colors as the first element on any pilot page, build Eva unit surfaces with three tones, including a warm recessed tone for biological depth, and on the ruined city page, keep everything desaturated except one warm sky accent. Those three habits cover the most demanding coloring decisions in the set.
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