Neon Genesis Evangelion Characters

With over 20 years of animation behind them, the big solid of Neon Genesis Evangelion is splendidly complicated but enticingly mysterious. Whether or not it’s begrudgingly working collectively to avoid wasting the world or studying methods to dwell in the identical residence collectively, the community of friendships and rivalries connecting everybody propels Evangelion ahead. Under are the central figures, in case you need to brush up in your Eva lore earlier than Thrice Upon a Time or discover some new trivia about your favourite pilot.

Gentle spoilers Neon Genesis Evangelion and Rebuild of Evangelion.

Shinji Ikari

The Third Youngster, pilot of Eva Unit-01, Shinji is the Evangelion’s protagonist. Rising up after the apocalypse has already occurred, with one other seeming imminent, the attraction of the character’s struggles with melancholy, powerlessness, and gender-feels lives on right now. Love him or hate him, Shinji can’t appear to cease bending the world.

Misato Katsuragi

The operations director of Nerv HQ, colonel Misato Katsuragi is the primary millennial. That’s not some title given by Nerv, however as a substitute a part of what has made Evangelion so enduring is its prescient illustration of younger adults and children dwelling by way of the tip of the world. There are some fairly clear parallels right here to the world we dwell in now. Regardless of being answerable for defending all of humanity, Misato is humorously and relatably burdened by automobile funds, her small however extremely trendy wardrobe, and taking good care of her boss’s child.

Rei Ayanami

The First Youngster and pilot of Eva Unit-00. Along with her haunting blue hair Rei is maybe probably the most recognizable character from Evangelion. Greater than anybody else, our understanding of Rei — and Rei’s understanding of herself — have developed dramatically all through the sequence and into the Rebuild movies. 

Asuka Langley Soryu

The Second Youngster and pilot of Eva Unit-02. At all times discovering the tallest floor to monologue from, Asuka is a dominating determine on the display and battlefield. However beneath her braggadocious exterior lies a deep sense of loss and eager for affection.

Asuka Shikinami Langley

Whereas each character undergoes dramatic transformation within the Rebuild of Evangelion, Asuka enters the sequence considerably altered. Symbolized by her new surname, the character departs from her unique in necessary methods. She virtually looks as if the perfect of Asuka the unique pilot held, one which was adept and impartial in her mech and her coronary heart.

Ritsuko Akagi

The chief scientist at NERV, Ritsuko oversees the event and restore of the Eva’s. Rising up in NERV, she quickly befriended the orphaned Misato who now acts as her operational counterpart. Collectively the duo know simply methods to annoy the opposite whereas saving the world.

Ryoji Kaji

Amongst a solid of duplicitous brokers with their very own agendas, Kaji stands out as a triple agent working for the Japanese Authorities, Nerv, and Seele. An previous flame of Misato’s earlier than his work took him to Europe (the place he met Asuka) and America (the place he knew Mari in Rebuild), Kaji and Misato’s relationship when he returns to Nerv is a central subplot within the unique anime. His present whereabouts in Rebuild are unclear.

Gendo Ikari

Each the last word spouse man and the worst dad, there’s one thing deeply private we will all hate about Gendo. In his single-minded obsession to reconnect along with his late spouse, Gendo distorted Yui’s intentions for the Evangelion program and made mankind into the enemy of Nerv. But regardless of the … of his intentions, he’s a devilish mastermind and appears one step forward of everybody else, even the plot itself. 

Kozo Fuyutsuki

Gendo’s right-hand man, Vice Commander Fuyutski is a way more sympathetic character. Although we get little or no in approach of dialogue from the older man, we find out about his life because it revolved round Yui Ikari and the inception of Nerv after her dying. Initially a professor of Yui, Fuyutski was roped into the shadow organisation by Gendo and his foremost pupil after the second affect. 

Toji Suzuhara

As certainly one of Shinji’s few buddies, Toji is a pawn of Gendo and Nerv’s machinations. Destined to grow to be the ill-fated Fourth Youngster within the unique anime, Toji is pointedly changed by Asuka within the Rebuild of Evangelion as he guarantees Shinji that ‘issues are beginning to search for.’ Reader, issues didn’t get higher from there.

Mari Makinami Illustrious

As a completely new character in Rebuild, Mari’s origins and her position within the movies are nonetheless mysterious. She appears to have labored with an American equal to Nerv, and effortlessly infiltrates Nerv in Evangelion 2.0 to steal Unit-02. Changing Asuka (injured after she changed Toj in Unit-03), she fights within the geo-front and pushes Shinji to get within the robotic — all in time for the Third Influence.

Kaworu Nagisa

Kaworu, Tabris, the seventeenth Angel, the Fifth Youngster. You possibly can presumably add “Shinji’s love curiosity” to that record, if he didn’t maintain dying in entrance of the child. Kaworu rapidly will get nearer to Shinji than another character within the sequence. Whereas he does appear to actually take care of him, the Angel clearly has different motivations for being so near the Third Youngster.