just as in the anime, seele begin to have serious doubts about both gendo's motives and loyalty after unit 01 absorbs zeruel's s² engine. this results in them sending kaworu nagisa in order to keep an eye on him. during shinji's time in evangelion unit 01, he imagines himself killing gendo. afterwards, gendo once again continues to follow the anime adaption, through his defiances of seele, while he continues to further his plan to take control of the human instrumentality project. he later swallows adam instead having it grafted to his hand. additionally, adam later appears on his left hand, not the right.