Evangelion mouse pads for the desk

Our Evangelion mouse pads and desk mats carry art inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Rebuild of Evangelion films, printed edge to edge on a 3 mm neoprene pad with a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. Sizes go from 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm), a mousepad for one hand, up to 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), a desk mat for the whole setup, with eight options in all, each printed to order.

Evangelion is unusually well suited to a computer desk. Much of the series happens in front of screens: operators in NERV headquarters watching readouts, the MAGI supercomputers voting on decisions, warning panels flashing orange as an Angel approaches. Put an EVA mouse pad under your keyboard and the desk starts to look like a command station of its own.

Character pages

When you want a single pilot rather than the whole series, go to the character pages listed under Evangelion:

• Asuka Langley Soryu, pilot of the red Unit-02, all fire and confidence.
• Rei Ayanami, pilot of Unit-00, pale blue hair, red eyes and a white plugsuit.

This page covers everything else: the Evangelion Units, NERV and its screens, the title cards, the Angels and the rest of the cast, from Shinji and Misato to Kaworu and Mari.

Unit-01 and the colors of the Units

Each Evangelion has a color scheme strong enough to build a desk around, and that is the easiest way to choose a design.

• Unit-01, purple and green: Shinji's Unit is the series' signature, and its purple armor with neon green accents suits a black keyboard and green or purple RGB lighting.
• Unit-02, red and orange: Asuka's Unit brings bright red armor, a warm, aggressive palette for a dark setup lit in red.
• Unit-00, yellow or blue: Rei's Unit first appears in yellow and is later repainted blue, so it suits either a warm desk or a cool white one.
• Unit-08, pink and green: Mari's Unit from the Rebuild films is the lightest and most playful option, for pastel peripherals.

If you only remember one combination from the series, it is probably Unit-01's purple and green. It is unusual enough on a desk to look deliberate, and it pairs with almost any black hardware.

NERV screens on your desk

The interface graphics are one of Evangelion's most distinctive looks: black backgrounds, orange and red warning panels, hexagonal grids, stacked Japanese and English text and the words that every fan knows, such as "Pattern Blue" when an Angel is detected. The three MAGI computers, Melchior, Balthasar and Casper, appear as simple blocks of text that light up as each one votes.

On a desk mat, that style does something no character art can. It turns the area around your keyboard into the kind of panel the operators watch in the command center, with readouts at the edges and a grid running underneath. It also suits an office desk, because from a distance it reads as an abstract black-and-orange graphic rather than an anime picture.

Title cards and type

Every episode of the original series is introduced by a title card: large white serif letters on black, set in the condensed Matisse typeface and often squeezed or stretched to fit the screen. The style became shorthand for the series itself, and plenty of other shows and games have borrowed it since.

A title-card design is the most minimal way to put Evangelion on a desk. Black and white, with no characters at all, it suits a monochrome setup, a white keyboard on a black mat, or a work desk where you want a nod to the series that only fans will recognize.

The original series, The End and the Rebuild

Evangelion has had several lives, each with its own look. The original TV series, directed by Hideaki Anno and made by Gainax, aired in 1995 and 1996, set in the city of Tokyo-3 in the year 2015. The film The End of Evangelion followed in 1997, with some of the most intense imagery in anime. The four Rebuild of Evangelion films, made by Anno's Studio Khara between 2007 and 2021, retold and then changed the story, with sharper digital color and new designs.

The original series has the soft, slightly muted color of hand-painted cels, which suits a retro or calm desk. The Rebuild films are brighter and more saturated, better for a gaming setup with strong RGB. The whole series arrived on Netflix in 2019, so it is easy to rewatch either version before you choose.

The pilots and the people around them

Beyond the character pages, the cast offers plenty of single-figure designs. Shinji Ikari, the reluctant pilot of Unit-01, usually appears in his school shirt or his blue and white plugsuit. Misato Katsuragi, with her red jacket and cross pendant, brings a warmer palette. Kaworu Nagisa, pale and gray-haired, suits a cool, quiet desk, and Mari Makinami from the Rebuild films brings pink and green.

A single figure suits the small 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, placed toward the top so your hand doesn't hide the face. On larger mats, a pilot works best at one end, beside the mouse or at the far left, with the keyboard covering the middle of the scene rather than the character.

Tall Units on a wide mat

The Evangelions are tall, thin figures, built to tower over a city, and a desk mat is wide and short. Designs that work well take that into account: a Unit kneeling, seen from an angle or shown as a head and shoulders across the mat, rather than a full standing figure squeezed into a strip. A lineup of Units side by side also fits the wide format naturally.

The XXL size, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm), is the deepest standard option and gives a Unit the most height, while the 4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), suits a lineup or a city skyline with an Evangelion rising out of it.

Angels, hexagons and Tokyo-3

The Angels are some of the strangest designs in anime: Ramiel, a floating blue octahedron, Sachiel with its bird-like mask, and others that are little more than shapes or patterns. Their AT Fields appear as glowing orange hexagons, a graphic so clear that a field of hexagons alone reads as Evangelion. Tokyo-3, the fortified city where the buildings retract into the ground, adds a skyline of towers and power lines at sunset.

These designs are more abstract than character art, which makes them easy to live with every day. A hexagon pattern works like any all-over pattern on a desk mat: the keyboard covers a few cells, and the rest still looks complete.

For gaming and for work

An Evangelion pad performs like any other pad from us. The fabric top gives the mouse an even, controlled glide, the non-slip base holds during fast movements, and the stitched edges stop the fabric from fraying where your wrist rests. For low-sensitivity aiming, XL or larger gives you room to sweep.

For a work desk, the abstract designs, NERV interfaces, title cards and hexagons, are the quiet choice. They look intentional on a video call and still mean something to anyone who recognizes them.

Sizes for Evangelion desks

Sizes are shown on each design's product page. These are the ones that suit Evangelion art.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	One pilot, the NERV logo or a title card
Laptop desk	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	A small interface panel beside a laptop
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	A strip of hexagons or a row of title text
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	A Unit lineup or a NERV command screen
A deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	The most height for a single Unit
The whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	Tokyo-3 at sunset with a Unit rising

For desks that are long but not deep, there is also the L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), and the 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm).

Gifts for Evangelion fans

Evangelion fans tend to have strong opinions about which version, which ending and which pilot is best, which makes a gift easier than it sounds: ask, or choose a design built around the Units, NERV or the title cards, which every fan shares. XL is the safest pick for an unknown desk, with space for a full keyboard and a mouse beside it.

Pads are printed to order and made within 1–3 business days; from Turkey, delivery to the US usually takes another 2–5 business days.

Keeping the colors sharp

Most Evangelion designs sit on dark backgrounds, which hide skin oil well but show dust and hair. Wipe the pad with a damp cloth or run a lint roller over it every week. For a deeper clean, hand wash it in lukewarm water with a little mild soap, rinse it, press the water out with a towel and let it dry flat. Skip the washing machine, the dryer and the iron, and the fade-resistant print keeps Unit-01's green as bright as the day it arrived.

A note on names

Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion, NERV and the names of characters and Units are used here to describe what our designs are inspired by. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Studio Khara, Gainax or any other rights holder of the series.