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Eva Pilots
Rei Ayanami
Rei is the First Children and pilot of Eva Unit 00. She is socially withdrawn and hardly interacts with anyone, except for Commander Ikari, whom she (Rei II) cherishes. Rei's cool and apparently emotionless personality - if it can be called that - garnered the scorn of her schoolmates; indeed, Asuka regards her a 'doll'. Although she previously only communed with Gendo, her interaction with Shinji has led her to question her relationship with Gendo, and eventually reviles Gendo's lack of sensitivity towards his own son. Technically speaking, Rei is not Gendo's biological daughter, even though he wished, if he had a daughter, to call her Rei. She is in fact genetically engineered, where part of her DNA is made up of Yui's genes and so looks a lot like her. Whenever Rei ever dies, her soul can be transferred to one of her 'spare' bodies, thus her relationships with people are not forgotten, but she loses some of her memories every time she 'dies'. Rei is the pilot of Eva Unit 00. Her synchronization ratios are generally average, but not nearly as high as Asuka's or Shinji's. On some occasions, Unit 00 rejected Rei, because Unit 00's soul is in fact Naoko Akagi, who murdered the first Rei clone.
Asuka Langley Soryu
Asuka is the Second Children and pilots Eva Unit 02. She is from Germany, but with an American father and a half German, half Japanese mother. Her mother was the head pilot of NERV Germany's Evangelion project, she went mentally insane after a test and she pretended that Asuka's doll was really her daughter. She hangs herself and the doll, and from that day, Asuka promised to herself to never cry again.
Like the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu, her namesake, Asuka is proud, strong, and has a high opinion of herself, which could be characterized as a superiority complex. She is often violent and offensive of other people's space, especially Shinji. Her feelings for him are violently suppressed by bossing him around and battering his ego. Asuka does this because she needs to feed her voracious yet unstable ego. This is also her way of shutting others out of her life, often using her blustering character as an offensive AT Field. Her best friend is her classmate and class representative, Hikari Horaki. Asuka is an exceptional Evangelion pilot. Unlike Shinji, she is proud of being an Eva pilot. She has a strong synchronisation score, although never exceeding the Berserk climax like Shinji's Eva Unit 01. She has a huge crush on Kaji.
Note: In artbooks done by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Asuka is typically drawn with blonde hair, not red.
Shinji Ikari
Shinji Ikari is the Third Children, who pilots Evangelion Unit 01. He is the son of Gendo and Yui Ikari. Abandoned by his father, Gendo, when he was a toddler, Shinji is socially inept. Forced to be self reliant, he did not mingle with individuals of his age group. People always pitied him, scorning his father for abandoning him in order to focus on using Shinji's mother as an experiment for Project 'E'. As a result, Shinji is a reclusive character, who often runs away from difficult situations, using it as a shield; in that way, he contrasts indefinitely from Asuka Soryu. Yet, they are the same, because they are both trying to escape from those that surround them. He became involved in NERV's war against the Angels when he met Captain Misato Katsuragi, the commander of the Evangelion team. She led him unwittingly into joining the battle in Eva Unit One, which has enclosed in it his mother's soul. Thus, Shinji's relationship with his father became downright frigid over the coming months. Fortunately, Shinji managed to build a social life when he created inseperable bonds with classmates Toji Suzahara and Kensuke Aida, and, if you can call it a friendship, with Asuka, as well. As an Eva pilot, Shinji is very reluctant, but he is given strength by his mother, who's soul is in Unit 01. As a result, the Eva reaches Berserk mode, when the Eva is activated without an apparent energy source, helping him in his times of need. Shinji had once reached a 400% sync ratio with his Eva, and thus was basically absorbed within it where he met his mother, briefly.
Toji Suzuhara
Toji is the Fourth Children. He is seen as a bully towards the beginning, but later revealed to be sweet and very caring for his sister. In the same day he becomes a pilot, his Evangelion, Unit 03 is taken over by Bardiel (13th Angel) and destroyed by Unit 01's Dummy Plug. He is severely injured, losing an arm and a leg (he dies in the manga). He only chose to pilot the Evangelion to get his sister better hospital care (in the NERV hospital).
Kaworu Nagisa
Kaworu is the Fifth Children, and the 17th Angel. He is sent to NERV by SEELE as a replacement pilot for Unit 02 after Asuka's Synchronization Ratio falls below usability.
A major point of contention among some fans - usually male - is his somewhat ambigious relationship with Shinji (they appear in a few unusually intimate scenes) likely the latter's only experience with unbiased tenderness. While this tends to only result in long discussions to the nature of Kaworu's 'humanity' and instinct, later installments of the series such as in games, manga, and CD dramas, use it as a point of light humor. He is an extremely popular character considering he was only in a single episode, and treated accordingly in later merchadise.
Gainax renders his name in Romaji as "Kaworu", not "Kaoru" as would be given by most romanization schemes. "Kaworu" can be clearly seen on display screens in the series and on the mass-production Dummy Plugs in End of Evangelion.
NERV Staff
Gendo Ikari
Gendo is head commander of NERV, and responsible for the research done on the Evas and the Human Complementation Project. He is the father of Shinji Ikari. At the start of the series, he is the only person having an affective connection to Rei Ayanami.
Although Gendo pretends to follow SEELE's Orders without questioning, he has his own agenda and tries to outmanipulate the committee. His final outspoken rebellion towards SEELE is due to his desire to initiate Third Impact having its complete control. He implants Adam's embryo in his hand (only shown on Evangelion Death and Rebirth, and the Director's Cut Edition) and tries to merge with Rei to achieve this purpose.
Gendo is a brilliant scientist and politician (the master of puppets in the series), but an extremely cold and distant father towards his son. His last lines on End of Evangelion indicate his regret and the true motivations for his ruthless behavior.
Kouzou Fuyutsuki
Once a professor of meta-biology at Kyoto University, Kouzou is now Deputy Commander of NERV under Gendo. He taught the talented Yui Ikari and bailed Gendo out of jail once during college. He was originally in opposition to Gendo, once calling him a "disagreeable fellow". Yui, however, referred to Gendo as a "cute/sweet person". Apparently, Fuyutsuki holds not just good feelings towards Ikari Yui.
After Fuyutsuki threatened Gendo to expose to the public the massive deception, concerning Second Impact, in 2003 (through his own research), Gendo led him into Central Dogma and revealed to him the incomplete Unit-00. He tempted Fuyutsuki to join him and "create a new future for humankind, together with me". Fuyutsuki accepted this, and started to help Gendo.
Misato Katsuragi
Misato is the head operations officer at NERV. She chose to have Shinji move in with her rather than letting him live alone. She has a scar on her chest from the trauma she suffered during the Second Impact, in which her father sealed her inside a capsule to save her. She becomes mute and non-social for a long time after that event, but apparently tries to make up for that in college when she meets Ritsuko. At the time of the series, she is very extroverted (and some would say slightly alcoholic).
Ritsuko Akagi
Ritsuko is NERV's head scientist. She is a lonely, cool and hyperlogical woman who has great affinity for cats and is completely devoted to her work. Along with Gendo and Fuyutzuki, she's the only person at NERV fully aware of the Evas' true nature and the purpose of the Instrumentality Project.
She attended college with Misato and Kaji, and made a close friendship with both of them. Despite their personal connection, Ritsuko hides an enormous amount of information from Misato.
Like her mother, Naoko, she had a lover/puppet relationship with Gendo Ikari. She came to despise Rei due to Gendo's attachment and destroyed all her clones after the appearance of Rei III.
Maya Ibuki
Maya is a technician at NERV who works very closely with Ritsuko Akagi. Her complementation scene at the End of Evangelion reveals the fact that she is a lesbian and secretly in love with Ritsuko. When Maya's Instrumentality occurs, Ritsuko-Rei-Lilith types "I need you" into Maya's laptop and embraces her. Maya's reversion to LCL comes after an ecstatic gasp of "Senpai!"
Makoto Hyuga
Makoto is First Lieutenant at NERV and a computer technician. He also secretly loves Misato. In his completion sequence, he is in ecstasy over Misato-Rei-Lilith.
Shigeru Aoba
A Lieutanant at NERV. He is a nihilist, and plays guitar. In his completion sequence, he cowers in fright from Rei-Lilith, because he does not want completion.
Ryoji Kaji
Officially employed as special inspector at NERV, Kaji secretly works for SEELE investigating NERV's true intentions. He has always been called by his last name, Kaji, rather than his first throughout the series and movies. He is also referred to as "the useless bell that doesn't ring" by SEELE. He once seriously dated Misato, but they had long broken up. After he came to NERV, they slowly got back together out of desperation despite Misato's dislike of him.
He is eventually shot and killed by an unknown assailant. The anime series never makes it clear, but a common speculation holds that it was either Misato or some generic security agent of NERV/SEELE. (Evidence for Misato is that after Kaji's shooting scene in the anime, the next thing that is shown is Misato's door, and that she was handed back her gun later. Evidence against Misato is that she has no real motive to kill Kaji and nor does Commander Gendo have any reason to give the order to her instead of another agent. Note that in the manga it is made clear that Misato was not the killer, as the gun used to kill Kaji is clearly of a different type from Misato's.) He remarks that his last assignment, to kidnap the Sub-Commander, was colored red, the color of blood. The Sub-Commander even remarks that this will cost him his life. He is probably Gendo or Gendo's agent, since he commonly meets with Gendo after assignments. He is killed because he finally betrayed SEELE and NERV enough to have them both want him dead.
Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu
Asuka's mother was head of the German Evangelion Project. She developed Unit 02, the first production type (of which three were produced, 02-German, 03-American, 04-American). She was mentally unstable, which was why her husband left her, and committed suicide. Her soul is entrapped in Eva Unit 02.
GEHIRN Staff
Yui Ikari
Yui is Shinji's mother. Proclaimed dead in 2004, after she disappeared during an experiment known as Project E (the project to resurrect the original Adam). There was no body to be recovered so her grave contains nothing. Her soul is contained inside Eva-01.
She invited her son Shinji to NERV for the first time on the day she died. Considering this coincidence and the fact that the two other souls in Eva-00 and Eva-02 are both from mothers that committed suicide, it is possible that Yui's death was intentional. It is known that she cared a great deal about the project and believed it was for the good of the world --- perhaps enough to sacrifice her own life.
Naoko Akagi
Naoko is Ritsuko's mother. Creator of MAGI computer system and former GEHIRN head technician. The MAGI computer is built on three opposing principles from the life of its creator: Naoko as a scientist (Melchior), Naoko as a mother (Balthasar), and Naoko as a woman (Casper). These three aspects are in constant conflict, and together they delegate to form the MAGI's answer. After Rei I called her an "old hag", and said that her lover, the widowed Gendo Ikari, called her that, Naoko murdered Rei I and then killed herself, at the GeoFront control station, atop the primary MAGI system by plunging to her death. Some evidence indicates that her soul is contained inside Eva-00 (notably the mental instability of the unit).
Other Characters
Keel Lorenz
Keel Lorenz is the leader of SEELE.
Kensuke Aida
Kensuke Aida is a military geek and Toji's best friend. Kensuke became Shinji's friend after he picked up Kensuke and Toji up in his Eva during the fight against the Fourth Angel, Shamshel. Kensuke constantly dreams of becoming an Eva pilot. He ceaslessly begs Shinji to pull strings in NERV to be commissioned as a pilot, but Shinji usually sidesteps the matter. Nevertheless, Kensuke enjoys the privileges of being the friend of an EVA pilot; he has fun on the Eva pilot's excursion to the UN combined naval fleet during the transportation of Eva Unit 02. And, like Toji, Kensuke has a crush on the beautiful Captain Misato Katsuragi.
Hikari Horaki
Hikari is the president of the class Shinji and the rest attend. She is in love with Toji Suzuhara and is a friend of Asuka's.
Papa Langley
Asuka's father, divorced Kyoko, and later remarried.
Mama Langley
Asuka's father remarried to the woman Asuka refers to as Mama after divorcing Kyoko. Asuka feels no affection towards her.
Sister Suzuhara
Toji's kid sister, was injured in the battle between Sachiel and Unit 01, piloted by Shinji Ikari.
Dr. Katsuragi
Misato's father was leader of the Katsuragi Expedition to Antarctica. He was killed during the Second Impact, but not before saving 14 year old Misato by placing her in a protective capsule (which looks like an Entry Plug).
Pen Pen
The result of a genetics experiment by Misato in her earlier years. After the experiment's conclusion, Misato adopted it as a pet. Pen Pen is a warm water penguin and has a relatively high intelligence. He lives in a custom refrigerator in her apartment, and enjoys taking warm baths and going to hot springs.
Its official name was Pen2.
ja:新世紀エヴァンゲリオンの登場人物
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