Evangelion is a Japanese cartoon about a satanic government organization that manipulates orphan children into doing battle with a faction of mysterious, angelic entities. The angels attempt to stop mankind's transition to a New World Order.
How many angels are sent? They send 17.
The show was released in 1995.
Not entirely accurate, but there ARE a lot of weird coincidences there. It's less the shadow government wanted to create a new world order, more they were hiding all kinds of secrets from the rest of humanity. For example, you're missing the part where there are two "seed angels" Adam and Lilith. One of them, I believe adam, is the one from which humans are created. Lilith on the other hand is the progenitor or the angels. The two species are at constant odds because they weren't met to be on the same planet. They were meant for different planets but an accident caused both of them to get dumped on earth. Hence the fight over the planet.
But have you seen mega64s eva in 5 minutes tho.
Get in the robot, Shinji!