(ALL CREDIT GOES TO THE AMAGI FOR GIVING ME THIS IDEA)

(Throughout the entirety of the anime multiverse gigantic rifts have been opening up throughout the multiverse but for some reason they are all drawn to the Neon Genesis universe protagonist and side characters are now temporarily stranded in the Neon Genesis universe people, monsters, robots, and even deities are stranded)

Ino: looking around So how did you all end up here?

Levi: Same way you did. Through the thing they call rifts.