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Plot

Shinji Ikari tries to adjust to his new life in Tokyo-3. He is now the official
pilot of the giant mecha Evangelion 01 for the special agency Nerv and lives with
Nerv's captain Misato Katsuragi, though their relationship is still distant. As the
episode opens, he is lethargically going through the motions of training. The next
morning he departs for school; Nerv's Dr. Ritsuko Akagi calls Misato to check on
Shinji and is told that Shinji seems to have made no friends at school. There,
Shinji's classmates Kensuke Aida, Toji Suzuhara, and Hikari Horaki are first
introduced. They begin to discuss the battle between a mecha and an enemy named
Sachiel, the third of a series of beings called Angels, which took place in the
previous episode. Toji has only just returned to class for the first time since the
battle, explaining that he had to care for his sister, who was injured in the
battle with Sachiel. When his classmates discover his identity as a pilot, Toji,
who blames Shinji for his sister's injuries, gives Shinji a beating in retaliation,
and Shinji's protestations that he was piloting involuntarily make Toji angrier.

The fourth Angel, Shamshel, attacks Tokyo-3 and Shinji is mobilized in Eva-01 to
defend the city. Kensuke convinces Toji to sneak out of their shelter to watch the
battle from nearby. Shinji loses his nerve to fight and is tossed into the air by
Shamshel, almost killing Toji and Kensuke as he lands. This also severs Eva-01's
Umbilical Cable, leaving her with just five minutes of reserve power. Shinji then
begins fighting a defensive battle, attempting to protect Toji and Kensuke rather
than defeat the Angel. To protect them from the battle, Misato orders Toji and
Kensuke to take refuge in the Evangelion's cockpit. Inside, Toji sees Shinji's
great anguish and pain as he fights the Angel, and is beset by remorse. Misato
orders Shinji to retreat, but he loses his temper and charges Shamshel with his
knife, defeating the Angel as his power runs out. Days later, Kensuke gives Toji
the number of Shinji's phone so he can apologize; Toji attempts to call but stops.

Production
Neon Genesis Evangelion director Hideaki Anno and Akio Satsukawa wrote the script
for "A Transfer". Assistant director Kazuya Tsurumaki and Hiroyuki Ishido composed
the storyboards. Ishido also served as director, while Nobuhiro Hosoi took the role
of chief animator, and Tsurumaki and Yoshitoh Asari served as assistant character
designers.[1][2] Animator Yō Yoshinari contributed to the depiction of the battle
against Eva-01 and the Angel Shamshel.[3] Initially, the staff called the episode
"The first telephone call" (初めての TEL, Hajimete no TEL).[4][5] After the battle,
Shinji would have become friends with Toji and Kensuke, receiving a call from them;
[6] the staff, however, changed the planned scenario and moved the beginning of the
friendship to the following episode, "Hedgehog's Dilemma".[7] The title was later
changed to "The Silent Phone",[8] with the English title "A Transfer".[9] According
to the schedule, Anno had already worked on the fifth and sixth episodes of the
series and tried to focus on Shinji's psychology. He felt he had to go beyond
regular anime in developing realistic characters for "A Transfer" and "Hedgehog's
Dilemma".[10]

For writer Dani Cavallaro, the first scene where Shinji engages in a simulation
with a virtual image of the Angel Sachiel intended to refine his skills, is a
"characteristic example of Evangelion's self-referential use of computer
technology, insofar as the video game-style images of the Eva-01 of Sachiel
employed by the Nerv personnel in the exercise are indeed computer-generated to a
substantial extent".[11] Specific technical terminology was used for the simulated
battle, including terms such as "gain" and "induction mode".[12] In the episode, an
image of a crater generated by the battle in the previous episode, "The Beast", was
introduced, in which a mountain named Mount Takanosu was depicted.[13] Tokyo-3 is
shown in a battle for the first time in "A Transfer";[14] for the landscapes of the
city, Anno took inspiration from Tracy Island from the Thunderbirds series and the
headquarters of UFO's SHADO organization.[15] An imperfect three-dimensional
representation of the Entry Plug was also added at the end of the episode, produced
by Kensuke on his laptop according to his memories.[16] Several voice actors were
used again to portray Shinji's classmates; the female companions, in particular,
are voiced by Yūko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi, and Megumi Hayashibara, who also
voices the characters Asuka Langley Soryu, Misato Katsuragi, and Rei Ayanami.[17]
At the beginning of the episode, a radio program with two female speakers talking
about Matsuzaki city[18] was included, to reveal details of the geography of the
world of Evangelion.[19] Eiji Maruyama (who worked on Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman and
other anime series) also voiced Shinji's math teacher.[17]

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