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Rei Ayanami (綾波 レイ [ ? ] , "Ayanami Rei") is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. She is the Outset Child, (referred equally the Starting time Children in the Japanese version), the pilot of Evangelion Unit-00 and one of the central characters.

At the beginning of the serial, little is known about Rei and her stoic personality puzzles her peers. As the series progresses, her personality evolves and she becomes more than involved with the people around her, especially her classmate and boyfriend Eva airplane pilot Shinji Ikari. In the concluding events of the storyline, the audition learns that Rei's mysterious origins tie into the story's resolution. Her function in this conclusion is non made clear in the Goggle box serial, only is one of the primary plot points of The End of Evangelion.

Contents

  • 1 Appearance
  • 2 Background
  • 3 Personality
  • four Appearances
    • 4.1 Manga adaptation
    • 4.2 Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA
    • 4.3 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project
    • 4.4 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
    • 4.five Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku
    • iv.6 Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
    • 4.seven In Other Media
  • 5 Character notes
  • 6 Reception
  • 7 See also
  • 8 References

Appearance

Rei has short stake blueish pilus with bangs centered to the middle and has red eyes. At the beginning of the series, she would wear bandages such every bit her arm and her center 1. She wears the aforementioned schoolhouse uniform but wears white loafers instead, and blackness ankle socks.

Background

Rei Ayanami in the anime opening

No specific data is given about Rei'south origin or heritage. Ritsuko Akagi states that Rei was born in a certain room deep in the lower levels of NERV headquarters, only this is all that is explicitly revealed in the series about her creation.[1] The Red Cantankerous Book stated that Rei was created from the "salvaged remains" of Yui Ikari after Yui's absorption into Unit of measurement-01 in 2004. The connection between Rei and Yui is unsaid a few times during the series. Gendo introduces Rei to the NERV staff in 2010 as an "acquaintance'southward child" whom he is temporarily taking intendance of. In episode 21, Naoko Akagi says that Rei physically resembles Yui. The grapheme model used in the 2010 scenes is based on development materials in which her historic period is but 4.

Rei inside Unit of measurement-00 Entry plug

Kaworu Nagisa cryptically mentions in their only conversation that she is "the same" as him.[2] This statement was expanded in the manager's cutting of the episode, in which Kaworu goes on to say that he and Rei are human vessels for the souls of Adam and Lilith, respectively. Later on in the episode, she generates an external A.T. Field which is as strong every bit Kaworu's. In a pseudo-hallucinatory scene in episode 25, Gendo tells Rei that the day of Third Bear on is the day for which she was created. In The Terminate of Evangelion, she plays an important role in the Third Touch, although not in the fashion that was intended by Gendo.

Rei is shown spending unknown lengths of fourth dimension in an LCL-filled tube underneath a construction resembling a giant brain in the Dummy System room, the reasons for which are not revealed. The circular wall of this room is originally depicted as existence covered with Deoxyribonucleic acid sequences, just most the end of the series, information technology is revealed to be an LCL-filled tank in which dozens of soulless clones of Rei are held. The clones are said past Ritsuko to be the cores of the dummy plugs; she also refers to them as "spare parts" and later as "vessels" for Rei. The movie pamphlet and book xi of the manga state that she tin can exist replaced entirely, with her soul being transferred to a new clone body every time she dies, although her retentiveness becomes muddled with each transfer. Other supporting bear witness in the anime includes her earlier line that "if I die, I can be replaced."

Rei I, being introduced to Gehirn personnel by Gendo.

While they are the same character, these unlike incarnations are commonly referred to as "Rei I," "Rei Two," and "Rei 3," after episodes and musical pieces with the aforementioned names, and are denoted as such in the storyboards and script as well.[iii] In episode 23, the controller that Ritsuko uses to destroy the clones lists numbered clones from "Rei 004" and upwards. Rei I was the very get-go incarnation and was murdered past Naoko Akagi in 2010 (as shown in Episode 21). Rei II is introduced in the first episode and appears in the most episodes of the incarnations. She dies when she sacrifices herself and Unit-00 to destroy Armisael in episode 23. Rei III is seen from the second half of episode 23 through to The End of Evangelion.

In the last episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the audience is introduced to a pseudo-hallucinatory alternating reality. Here Rei'southward personality is completely different, and her beliefs is more "normal" (for example, she shows embarrassment and anger when she thinks Shinji looked upwardly her brim, in stark dissimilarity to her emotionless reaction to the incident with Shinji in Episode 05). The Evangelion spin-off manga Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days is ready in this alternating universe, and its version of Rei is a fundamental character.

In The End of Evangelion, a shining figure of Rei is shown for a few frames looking downward at Misato and Ritsuko moments before they dice. These spectral images also appear over the corpses of the slain NERV personnel. During Third Affect, multiple Reis appear in the NERV command room, seemingly apparitions created by Lilith. She likewise briefly watches over Shinji and Asuka in the concluding scene of the pic.[4]

Personality

"Any else, she needs to be painted in as a bitterly unhappy young girl with little sense of presence." Hideaki Anno, to Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on Rei's character blueprint[5]

At the outset of the series, Rei is socially withdrawn, seemingly emotionless, and rarely interacts with anyone, except for Gendo, to whom she initially displays loyalty but with whom she has a generally distant relationship. She lives by herself in a dull sparsely-furnished flat in Tokyo-3. Toward the end of the series, Shinji comments that her apartment is very similar to the place where Ritsuko says Rei was born.[half dozen] Rei is likewise shown to take an interest in psychology and genetics, including reading a book in German on the latter discipline in Episode 09.[7]

"An emotional change causes certain muscles in the face to tense, producing an "expression". Rei is expressionless but is it that she doesn't feel emotion, or that she is merely unable to limited it?" Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on Rei [accent in original].[8]

Rei's outset smiling.

As the series progresses, she begins to develop relationships with others and to prove moments of genuine emotion,[9] to fifty-fifty go pitiful and weep.[10] Her English vocalism actor, Amanda Winn-Lee describes her proverb, '"Rei is not totally devoid of personality, otherwise she would non exist interesting." At that place is a small spark of humanity, but it is "clouded by this huge sense of negative self-worth and the realization that she is expendable." The joy of playing Rei is exploring that minor spark.'[11] And likewise said: "I got into a weird way - I can't depict it. It's a good matter I'm in a little padded room when I'yard doing it because that'south where she belongs. She knows she's expendable, but the thing is, she's still homo so yous can't exercise her totally catatonic."[12]

Appearances

Manga adaptation

Principal article: Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga)

Rei in the manga adaptation.

In the manga adaptation, Rei appears to respond more readily to homo contact than her anime version. Shinji's interactions with her are implied as the master reason of her change; by the time of the boxing with the Angel Armisael, it is strongly hinted that Rei is in love with Shinji. Shinji reciprocates this affection to some degree, simply is unsure of what he feels for Rei and where their relationship is going. In volume 9, he acknowledges that the gap betwixt them has been considerably reduced since they first met; still, he hopes that this gap can be reduced further. Her desire to be recognized as a person, rather than as a "doll," puts her in some awkward, even dangerous situations. At one point, Ritsuko tries to strangle her when she talks back to the md.

In the battle against Armisael, when the Affections communicates with Rei, information technology attempts to make Rei believe that her soul is evil; that she does desire Shinji for herself and is angry at Asuka for drawing Shinji's attention away. As in the anime, she cocky-destructs Unit-00 to destroy the Angel. However, information technology's hinted that the "new" Rei still has some residual memories as she wonders to herself why she is alive again afterward returning to her quarters.

Sadamoto claims, however, that no graphic symbol was able to connect fully with Shinji.[13] Sadamoto as well claims Asuka would be Shinji's symbol for his longing for the opposite sex, differently from Rei'south "motherly" existence.[14] Every bit such, he decided to give Rei more room in the manga, emphasizing Rei'due south maternal office.[15]

Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA

Rei in ANIMA.

In Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA, the tertiary Rei from the anime is present. She is likewise sometimes called "Rei Trois" ("trois" being French for "three") and is able to link to the other Reis, Quatre, Cinq and Half dozen, via mental link. This still put a lot of strain on her and therefore, her vital data has to be regularly analyzed by Magi.

Now that she is 17, she more and more resembles Yui Ikari. Because of that, she tries to stay distant with Shinji: she fears that she may go Yui herself. This fearfulness is accentuated by the fact that she lost Gendo when the Instrumentality Project was interrupted. The 2d Rei is also mentioned, designated equally "Deux" ("deux" existence French for "two").

In the three years since SEELE's failed invasion, Rei Trois has opened up to others, even becoming friends with Asuka. However, she all the same has many doubts regarding her nature and her feelings, not helped by the fact that Shinji is unconsciously seeing her as a replacement for his mother, something that Trois detests. These doubts but get worse after the psychic backlash caused by the other three Reis gaining independence. At the terminate of Volume 2, Rei Trois loses herself then much that she becomes heed-controlled past the SEELE-possessed Kaji. Fortunately, Shinji manages to gratuitous her, and Rei Trois cries for the starting time fourth dimension in years, letting all of her emotions flow costless.

The other Reis are clones created to pilot the three new Evangelion Units 0.0, since Misato refuses to utilize real kids. Originally, the three clones are semi-mindless, with Trois having the ability to control them from Earth's surface. They spend near of their time floating in orbit, prepare to strike any Angel-type threat that might be detected. However, after Rei Quatre is infected past Armaros' scales, the connection with Trois is severed, and the clones develop their ain individual personalities.

Rei Quatre becomes a rogue amanuensis, originally acting co-ordinate to Armaros' program merely eventually shifting her allegiance to SEELE. Trois identifies Quatre every bit the fears of Rei Ayanami made flesh, and she is the ane most bothered by the fact that Shinji sees her as a mother. She seems to have a sort of romantic attraction towards Shinji, since she kisses him a couple of times; but he doesn't reciprocate the feelings.

Rei Cinq, the tallest clone, dies at the finish of Volume 1, while helping Asuka to achieve the moon. Rei Six was deliberately made to look like a picayune girl, believing that she'd take a much easier time piloting the Eva if she had a younger body. While she's every bit intelligent and fight-capable as the other Reis, Six oft behaves like a child. She likes water ice-cream and dogs

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project

Main article: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project

In this series, Rei is a afar relative of Shinji's (from Yui's side of the family, in homage to the original). She's the kickoff person the reader sees as she comes to Tokyo-3.

Here, she's portrayed every bit an intelligent daughter (on par with Asuka in the series) and expresses emotions, as opposed to her original counterpart, smiling a few times and even becoming confused when Shinji becomes flustered after she asks him whether she looked good in a swimsuit. She even laughs in one instance at Shinji and Asuka'south constant bickering and defended herself with "It just seemed amusing". However, due to her unhappy babyhood, she's also somewhat cold to others. In some other homage to the series, Shinji over again sees her stepping out of the shower naked. This time, however, she smiled coldly at Shinji earlier slapping him which sent him to the floor.

Subsequently, her relationship with Shinji gradually warmed, which Asuka felt was a "threat" of sorts. Interestingly, she fifty-fifty invited the boy to shop for a swimsuit with her (for a beach outing), much to his embarrassment and fifty-fifty blushes slightly at the idea of him massaging oil onto her at the embankment. She'southward also the showtime person shown in this series to wear a plug-suit.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days

Master article: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days

In Celestial Days, Rei is a transfer student to Shinji'southward school. Her personality is notably very different from her incarnations in the anime, Sadamoto's adaption, and Shinji Ikari Raising Projection, and mirrors the one she has in Girlfriend of Steel 2 and the alternate reality from the final episode of the original series. She is an hands excitable extrovert, but socially inept and unaware of everyday social conventions. She takes a liking to Shinji and confides her feelings in Asuka.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku

Rei in Gakuen Datenroku

Main article: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku

This version of Rei, while still afar, seems more expressive than other versions. She is a student at Shinji's school and is evidently his dearest interest. She leads a secret life, working equally a "Shamash Guardian" for a group hidden in the school and dedicated to fighting against Angels. Rei wields the Lance of Longinus in gainsay. She has shown more emotion than most other versions of the character, such as stupor at the discovery of Shinji'south powers and boredom while reading a textbook. She is known in her class as being bonny merely gloomy, and is too plain very eccentric. She is very fond of a equus caballus's head mask she had to vesture for a Christmas pageant and was quite happy (in contrast to her usual personality) when she was immune to keep information technology. In the concluding volume, Rei is revealed to be a clone of Yui Ikari, meant to take her place in the Tree of Yggdrasil, an artifact that keeps reality from collapsing. After befriending Shinji, she chooses non to go along with Gendo's plans, resulting in him angrily shooting her. In the final affiliate, she is revealed to have survived her wounds and is at present shown attention school aslope Shinji and Asuka, who take returned to normal lives following Gendo's decease and the defeat of the Angels. She gets forth with Asuka much amend than in other versions, the latter office of Angelic Days notwithstanding.

Petit Eva: Evangelion@Schoolhouse

Principal article: Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

In Petit Eva: Evangelion@Schoolhouse, 3 dissimilar versions of Rei exist, and all live together as sisters. The three Rei sisters apply a unlike numbering system. Rei I is the 'normal' Rei, shown in her standard school uniform. Rei II is the 'alternate reality' Rei, from Shinji'southward imagined world where Rei was a normal girl, shown in a unlike schoolhouse uniform. Rei Iii is the 'child' Rei, basically the first Rei from the normal Evangelion universe prior to her death, who carries various toys and dolls. Rei I's personality is fairly distant, but responds more readily to everyone, particularly Shinji. Rei II'southward personality is very excitable. Rei Three is childlike, and cries when she does not get her style or is bullied.

In Other Media

  • In the 2007 anime Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Rei, alongside Asuka, as well other female person characters from other Gainax works, appear in episode six, dressed in bunny outfits working in a bathhouse. All the same, it is revealed past the end of the episode that those girls were instead beastmen in disguise.
    • Other characters include Mahoro from Mahoromatic, Nono, and Lal'c from Diebuster.
  • Rei makes a cameo appearance alongside Asuka, Kaworu and Shinji in the fifth effect of Marvel's Edge of Spider-Verse storyline.

Character notes

Like many of Evangelion'southward characters, Ayanami's surname comes from a Japanese World War 2 naval vessel, the Fubuki-form destroyer Ayanami. Her first proper name comes from the character Rei Hino of the anime and manga serial Sailor Moon. This was done to become i of Sailor Moon's directors, Kunihiko Ikuhara, to piece of work on Evangelion. Written in kanji, Rei (零) can too mean "goose egg", "nix" and is a pun on her Evangelion 00. The ring Kinniku Shōjo Tai's theme song Doko e demo ikeru kitte and its line "hotai de masshiro na shojo" (lit. "the white daughter with bandages") inspired Sadamoto to draw Rei.[16] [17] [18] The same band produced a vocal named Fumimi no kodomo (福耳の子供), in which a female monologue is aural, and Sadamoto tried to portray a daughter with a similar vox.[19] [20] Ukina, a character from Sadamoto's previous work Koto, served as Rei's model, giving her "shaggy, bobbed, wolf-like hair".[21] Some other source of inspiration was The Snow Goose, a novella written by Paul Gallico; the story describes a painting portraying the protagonist, a thin and stake daughter in an empty room.[22]

Yui Ichigo, one of Rei's early on designs

Anno requested a ""cool character with curt hair" and designed Rei originally as a brunette with dark eyes; still, information technology was necessary to distinguish her from the other female protagonist Asuka Langley Soryu, and then Sadamoto designed her with centre and pilus colors opposite to Asuka's.[22] Initially, Anno requested her as "gloomy".[23] Rei's room, originally outlied past Anno as just a "bleak room", was formulated by scriptwriter Akio Satsukawa based on a existent-life apartment on which he had once exchanged packing while working office-fourth dimension as a plumber.[24] 

While Asuka was conceived as "an idol-similar effigy" in Neon Genesis Evangelion and a symbol of "heterosexual want", Sadamoto designed Rei as a "mother effigy",[25]          thinking of her as "the Yin opposed to Asuka".[26]          [27]          As such, he decided to give Rei more than room in the manga, emphasizing Rei's maternal role.[15]          One of Sadamoto'southward early designs include a black-haired girl called "Yui Ichigo", though this might be an early on version of Yui Ikari, too alternating between green and teal hair.[28]          Anno also suggested that Rei's heart color be red, a feature he believed would give her more personality and distinguish her pattern from those of the other characters. Her hair color changed to blue, similarly to the main character from          Aoki Uru, the never-made sequel to          The Wings of Honneamise.[nineteen]          Sadamoto also gave her black socks, inspired by a women's handball team he saw playing when he was still in middle schoolhouse.[29]          Blackness immune him to differentiate her from the characters of the serial released in the aforementioned flow and go against their trend.[30]

Sketches of Rei'south early plugsuit design

As with many other Evangelion characters, Anno transposed some aspects of his life into her character, including the selection to not eat meat and maintain a vegetarian nutrition.[31] [32] He also took inspiration from Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic concepts and the Oedipus complex in item, since "at that place was this replacement by a robot, so the original mother is the robot, but so there is a female parent of the same age, Rei Ayanami, by [Shinji's] side, who's also by the side of the real father".[33] In a discarded draft of Rei's grapheme background, Rei was a more sensual character than her final version. Sadamoto, unlike the more frank and explicit Hideaki Anno, decided to give her a much more than "enigmatic" and bland eros.[34] According to Sadamoto and assistant director Kazuya Tsurumaki, she was conceived as an conflicting entity, only Gainax later went on to make her at least genetically human; Rei should take had both the human genes of Yui Ikari and the First Angel, Adam, associating her condition to a Devilman, a hybrid from Go Nagai's manga.[35]

During Evangelion'due south product and first circulate, Anno encountered difficulties writing the character, not feeling "particularly interested" or relating to her, but he thought of her as a representation of his unconscious mind likening her to Kaworu in that regard, in contrast to Shinji, Asuka and Misato as his witting parts.[36] [37] [38] She is also likened to Kaworu by staff in many other instances.[39] [40] He also conceived her as "the unconscious Shinji".[41] For a long fourth dimension he forgot to "explore Rei's personality".[42] In Episode 08 she does not announced in whatsoever scene, while in Episode 07 he "finally remembered her" giving Rei a brief appearance in 1 shot. After many episodes, he decided to focus on her and "explore her emotion", adding Rei'south stream of consciousness-like monologue in Episode 14. While working on the monologue, he wanted to develop her in a "schizophrenic" direction and wondered how to portray a kind of madness. He was loaned a magazine-like book entitled Bessatsu Takarajima (別冊宝島) on mental affliction that contained a poem by someone who suffered from a mental disorder, and that triggered his imagination.[43] In Episode 21, the first Rei clone, killed by Naoko Akagi in the concluding version of the script, would eventually survive later being strangled and having lost consciousness momentarily, awakening in an empty command room without Dr. Akagi.[44]

Anno acted instinctively, without following a well-defined plan for the development of the characters, merely from the beginning he had the idea of Rei's expiry, then presented in the twenty-third episode.[45] Compared to most other characters, Rei received relatively few changes compared to her earlier ideas, with the notable exception that in Episode:01 she would have still defeated the Angel on her own, piloting Unit of measurement-00, though not impale it.[46] During production, Ikuhara, annoyed past the idealized paradigm and the fetishism that some fans built around the character, proposed to Anno that they "betray" fans and evidence her every bit a real girl who gets married and "gets significant in the last episode", but Anno rejected the suggestion.[47] In the original finale wanted by Anno, the giant Rei added in the flick EoE was not foreseen, since it was conceived at a afterwards time.[41] Anno himself alleged he considered her character "already finished" in the episode six smiling scene: "In short, if she and Shinji completely 'communicated' in that location, and so isn't she over with? At that moment, Rei, for me, was finished.[42]

Reception

Frenchy Lunning has described Rei equally being Shinji's anima.[48] Rei Ayanami's success as a character, according to Hiroki Azuma, became a catalyst in the anime manufacture to shift away from storytelling and towards depicting characters with moe-inspiring traits.[49] [50] As Rei became a more prominent character among fans, she "inverse the rules" governing what people regarded as moe-inspiring. The industry then created many characters which share her traits of pale skin, shortish bluish pilus, and a "quiet personality". Azuma regards Ruri Hoshino of Martian Successor Nadesico as being directly influenced by Rei.[51] IGN ranked Rei 10th in "Pinnacle 25 Anime Characters of All Time" with author Chris Mackenzie noting Rei to exist one of the most influential characters in anime series, but he still commented that she was different from like characters since "She'southward a mystery we never really solve, when you lot remember about it."[52] She had the aforementioned place in Mania Entertainment'southward 10 Iconic Anime Heroines written by Thomas Zoth who commented on the large number of merchandising based on her and that she started "the moe boom in anime."[53] In the survey "friendship" developed by rankingjapan.com in which people had to cull what anime character they would like to accept as a friend, Rei ranked ninth.[54] While reviewing the films Rebuild of Evangelion, writers from Anime News Network commented on Rei; while in the first title, Carlo Santos criticized that Rei's personality is the aforementioned as the one from the Boob tube series, Justin Sevakis praised Rei'due south response to Shinji'due south kindness.[55] [56]

Sadamoto's blueprint of the three female leads created extremely high sales of trade. Figurines of a bandaged Rei "were the most popular, outselling all else".[57] Due to her popularity driving sales of merchandise, Rei was chosen the "Premium Daughter" past media.[58] The June 2010 outcome of Newtype Magazine ranked Rei #5 in its monthly top 10 graphic symbol survey. In a Newtype poll from March 2010, Rei was voted as the most popular female anime character from the 1990s.

See also

  • Ayanami Series

References

  1. ↑ Episode 23 ("Rei 3", March 6, 1996)
  2. ↑ Episode 24 ("The Beginning and the Finish, or 'Knockin' on Heaven'southward Door'", March 13, 1996)
  3. ↑ In "The 3rd Character – In the case of Rei Ayanami" part, three Rei Ayanamis ask and answer their own questions. In the storyboards and the recording script, the child is denoted as Rei 1, the one in the plug accommodate every bit Rei two, and the i in the school uniform as Rei 3, and they appear to represent to the three generations of Rei Ayanamis. Rei 1 is heartless and Rei 3 appears to have a shallower awareness of "cocky" compared to the other two. The one who said she existed because Gendo needed her is Rei ii, who knew Gendo for the longest. - Platinum Episode Commentaries
  4. ↑ When Shinji comes to New Tokyo-3, he sees a girl that seems to exist Rei Ayanami for just an instant. Considering how she is injured and wrapped up in bandages, when he afterward meets her in NERV Headquarters, the natural assumption would exist to think that this was a phantom vision. But in Episode 26, "My True Heart For You," [from Finish of Evangelion] a different possibility is suggested. The girl that appeared for just one cut in this scene may be the Rei Ayanami who is "the existence that gazes upon homo." - Platinum Episode Commentaries
  5. ↑ pg 97 of Fujie 2004
  6. ↑ Shinji/Asuka: Colleague-Complicated Feelings;Colleague-Dearest/Hate
    Rei/Shinji: Colleague-Favorable;
    Kaworu/Shinji: Colleague-Favorable - The Essential Evangelion Chronicle, Side B
  7. ↑ There are numerous advertisements left stuck in her door, and the entrance has endless tracks where she has gone inside without taking her shoes off. Co-ordinate to the premise, on the breast in the room are medical books on such topics as psychology and genetics. Rei apparently reads these attentively, and they are marked with tags. Platinum Episode Commentaries
  8. ↑ pg 165, afterword, of Neon Genesis Evangelion, volume 3
  9. ↑ "It began when the director told me, "It'southward not that she doesn't have emotion, but that she doesn't know what it is." His technical asking was that I should read my lines as apartment every bit possible. But she's obviously non a auto; she'south a human being, flesh and blood." It's a huge divergence between "not having emotion" and "not knowing emotion." After all, she could develop feelings, once she learned..." Quote from Megumi Hayashibara, in her "What I learned from meeting a girl who didn't know", 1996. Translated in Neon Genesis Evangelion, volume three
  10. ↑ "No; Rei'due south dazzler comes from the truth that she has feelings. When she cried, information technology meant the waters of the pool were coming out at last. The struggle to draw your feelings along, the reconciliation between your surface and your decease - that, I believe, is where nosotros truly become alive, truly become man begins." Hayashibara, "What I learned from meeting a girl who didn't know." Ibid.
  11. ↑ Encounter the Voice of AD Vision: Amanda Winn from Ex.org.
  12. ↑ http://web.annal.org/web/20080617215942/www.fansview.com/080798h.htm
  13. ↑ All About Kaworu Nagisa interview with Sadamoto
  14. ↑ Sadamoto interview, Newtype 1997
  15. ↑ fifteen.0 xv.1 Asuka and her human relationship with Shinji have a central function in the series, while in the manga she is kept in the background compared to Rei. What is the reason for this difference?(laughs) Anno and I take a different bespeak of view on this. The manga is less spectacular than the anime, there's less action, and then I preferred to focus on the human relationship betwixt Shinji and his mother, which is the core of my work. The anime, on the other hand, precisely considering it's more spectacular, has some other point of view. Of grade, the relationship betwixt me and my female parent is different (laughs). A manga that influenced me a lot was Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu, by Kazuo Umezuo, which talks about the relationship between female parent and son. Any mother in the world wants the best for her child, and my manga is nigh that. - Sadamoto Days – i fan meet e l'intervista
  16. ↑ One of my favorite bands is called the Buff Girl Team and in 1 of their songs, there's this line a white girl in bandages. I had an image of her even before I started Evangelion. Similar a girl with a dark past. I thought it'll be interesting to accept a daughter in bandages. And maybe she'll accept the antibacterial smell like hospitals. If I had known her when I was 14, I would have hesitated to get shut to her. She'south beautiful, but her globe'due south the farthest away from mine. Only I end up admiring her. In the anime, I designed her as kind of an idol effigy. - Sadamoto, Genesis 0:0 - In The Starting time, translation
  17. ↑ Sadamoto, Japan Expo 2008
  18. ↑ "Interview with Sadamoto Yoshiyuki", Der Mond
  19. ↑ xix.0 19.1 Schizo, pp. 164-165
  20. ↑ In creating Rei Ayanami, both from a character and physical point of view, were you inspired by someone who really exists, such as models or actresses?Information technology'due south a question I'm oftentimes asked, the question of inspiration, only every bit we said before there is no single answer...for example, in the case of Rei, the director gave me as an indication "a cool character with short hair" and from there I had to figure out what to create. The main inspiration came to me by hearing a song, and the voice singing it. From that vocalization, I envisioned the grapheme. I took the vocal to the managing director and said "I see her like this, Rei, a girl who has this vocalization". Sadamoto Days – i fan meet e fifty'intervista
  21. ↑ Q: What about Rei?
    A: I played effectually with a grapheme, Ukina, in a story I wrote a long fourth dimension ago in NEWTYPE called Koto ("The Ogre on the Desert Isle").  You take her, give her shaggy, bobbed, wolf-like pilus, and you lot've got Rei.  Actually, I simply played with her a chip-the way the eyes are drawn, the basic character is the same.  Her character was locked in equally translucent, like a shadow or the air.  The kind of girl yous tin't touch.  The daughter you lot long for, merely there is nothing about her that you can grab a concord onto
    Q: The same type of stance that Kensuke and Toji experience  about Rei?
    "A: Even more distant.  The first time you see Rei, she is all bandaged upwards.  The group Kinniku Shojo Tai has a vocal called "Hotai de Masshiro na Shojo" ("The Girl White with Bandages").  When I heard that song, an image popped into my mind, and I drew Rei co-ordinate to that.  I thought, "I'd similar to draw a girl like that."  This daughter who is fated to pilot a robot.  I wanted to describe her even earlier I heard of Shinji.  There were 2 things that went into the decision to make her eyes red: one is the fact that she didn't have plenty outstanding features, and the second is from a buisness standpoint, the makers of the game wanted her differentiated from the other characters, but personnally I think it turned out to have a smashing consequence.  She's so quiet y'all can only tell her character from her gaze and her facial expressions, and so she leaves the impression of having a potent stare." - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto - "My Thoughts At The Moment"
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.i Sadamoto, Milano Manga Days 2014
  23. ↑ Q: Did Hideaki Anno exert tight control over your blueprint process while working on animations where he was the director? A: For the by few works that I have done, I have worked with a number of directors (including Tsurumaki and Anno) and I would oft be asked to be involved. The most "uncomplicated" managing director I've Ever worked with was Anno, who would typically work with exactly what Sadamoto gave him. The merely information Anno told him about Rei was her age, blood type and that she was "gloomy".
    [...]A: In the instance of FLCL, the music inspired the story rather than the characters. Haruko was inspired by JPOP music. A ring Sadamoto used to listen to supposedly inspired Rei from Evangelion. [this is confirmed in the Milano Manga Days interview] - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Panel at FanimeCon 2003
  24. ↑ [...] For case, the just clarification of Ayanami'south room in Mr. Anno'south memo was simple 'dour room.' So I wrote down her room based on my feel of seeing such a room when I was working part-time.
    Interviewer: You lot really saw a room similar that?
    Satsukawa: Yes. That was when I worked equally a function-fourth dimension plumber. I went to exchange packing, and I remember going to an apartment that looked exactly like Ayanami's room. - [[Statements by Evangelion Staff#Akio Satsukawa: Honey & Popular Theatrical Booklet (1998)|Love & Pop Theatrical Booklet (1998)]
  25. ↑ Sadamoto: "The Other Side of the Story"
  26. ↑ "Interview with Sadamoto Yoshiyuki", Der Mond
  27. ↑ Asuka and her relationship with Shinji accept a primal function in the series, while in the manga she is kept in the background compared to Rei. What is the reason for this difference?(laughs) Anno and I have a different signal of view on this. The manga is less spectacular than the anime, there'southward less activeness, so I preferred to focus on the relationship between Shinji and his female parent, which is the core of my piece of work. The anime, on the other hand, precisely because information technology's more spectacular, has another indicate of view. Of class, the human relationship between me and my mother is dissimilar (laughs). A manga that influenced me a lot was Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu, by Kazuo Umezuo, which talks well-nigh the relationship between female parent and son. Any mother in the world wants the best for her kid, and my manga is near that. - Sadamoto Days – i fan meet e l'intervista
  28. ↑ Der Mond - The Art of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
  29. ↑ Sadamoto, SWEET Fourth dimension EXPRESS
  30. ↑ Sadamoto, World Seifuko Project Summit
  31. ↑ "By the hand of man" and "a phenomenon has value when it is brought about" are two lines that are familiar from some of Director Anno's previous works. In this episode, information technology is revealed that Rei dislikes meat, but Nadia: Secret of Bluish Water was also a vegetarian. Director Anno himself is also famous for not eating meat. Incidentally, Rei orders a garlic ramen without the pork at a ramen shop, but the script has Rei ordering seaweed ramen. It is a rare example of pure adlibbing on the office of a vocalization extra in this show. - Platinum Episode Commentaries
  32. ↑ Film Book Vol. four
  33. ↑ Parano
  34. ↑ Kodansha 2003
  35. ↑ Schizo, pp 179
  36. ↑ Schizo, pp.95
  37. ↑ Schizo, pp. 93
  38. ↑ Eva Special Talk with Anno Hideaki and Toshiya Ueno (Newtype 11/1996)
  39. ↑ When yous disassemble the grapheme for his last name, "Nagisa", it becomes "shi" and "sha". Thus, it is a play on the sub-title, "The Final Messenger (saigo no shisha)". The "Nagisa (shore)" as well forms a pair with Rei Ayanami's "nami (moving ridge)". - Platinum Episode Commentaries
  40. ↑ "I: And Rei and Kaworu is the same type of existence right? The "you lot are like me". Z: Both possessing the genetic code of Angels. - Schizo/Prano interview collection, "judging Hideaki Anno in his absenteeism"
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Anno: If the planned relations had worked out - the program was that the 'unconscious Shinji-kun' would exist Ayanami Rei, the Shinji-kun who appears on the surface would be Ikari Shinji, and the 'ideal Shinji-kun' would be Nagisa Kaworu-kun. [Kaworu was] supposed to be an ideal male but when I tried putting him together he was just a strange swain (laughs). That was something of a lack of adequacy on my part. - 2000 December Anno: Interview 'with a mem­ber of Waseda Uni­ver­sity for the pur­pose of "character report.
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.one Oizumi: Exactly. And, on the topic of substitutions, tin can we think of Rei Ayanami equally existence a person like your mother?
    Anno: That'southward non quite right.
    Takekuma: There's also goose egg like the image of a daughter you previously dated [in her], right?
    Anno: No. Well, Rei is probably [the character] closest to my deep psyche. I don't really empathize her. … The truth is, I have no emotional zipper to her at all.
    Takekuma: Huh? Is that right?
    Anno: Yeah. I take no emotional zipper to her. Well, Nobita-san wrote [about her] as beingness a symbol of schizophrenia. There were parts where that was really what I wanted to do [with her].
    Takekuma: But she is the character best received by the fans in the exterior world. Fifty-fifty I was drawn in past Rei at the beginning.
    Oizumi: That's correct. Megumi Hayashibara's voice was also incredible.
    Anno: But Rei is [the character] I least sympathize. In improver, I'grand not really that interested in her. There were parts where that's what I was consciously doing, actively trying to put aside my presuppositions, trying to bring out the well-nigh archaic, the nearly core, the purest parts within me.
    Oizumi: So Rei is peradventure [something] embedded in your unconscious [that] can't be expressed in words.
    Anno: Even in the midst of making Eva, I all of a sudden realized I had forgotten her. Her very existence. In episode vii, I remembered, and added a single shot with Rei. I had no emotional attachment to her at all. I remember that was fine, because she didn't announced in episode 8, not even for a single shot. -Parano
  43. ↑ When information technology came to Rei, I was completely blocked. I couldn't write annihilation at all. I had intended to make Rei a schizophrenic (分裂症的) graphic symbol, but when I tried to write, I couldn't think of anything - aught at all. Finally, I thought, when writing madness, one has no choice only to go mad. At that time I consulted a flake with my friends. When I asked if at that place was something composed past a madman, I was loaned a "Bessatsu Takarajima" [1] volume on mental illness. It was an "easy and reasonable" book [イージーでリーズナブルな本] (laughs), but inside it there was a poem written by a madman. That was extremely good. When I read the poem I had a potent impression, as though this was the first time that I had come shut. I had a feeling like a light glinting upon the tip of a sharp knife. It was certainly not the feeling of an ordinary homo. That was adept. If I call up about information technology now, this sort of 'capacity' was [already] within me (laughs). [??2] Information technology'due south mad to believe that the writings of a madman are of the highest quality. I read that [poem] and was filled with images; I was able to write [Rei'due south monologue] in one sitting. - 2nd JUNE Interview
  44. ↑ Evangelion Original III
  45. ↑ Parano, pp 97
  46. ↑ Evangelion Proposal
  47. ↑ https://forum.evageeks.org/thread/12197/Ikuni-and-Anno/
  48. ↑ Lunning, Frenchy (2006) "Between the Child and the Mecha" Mechademia 2 p.281
  49. ↑ ejcjs - Moe and the Potential of Fantasy in Post-Millennial Nippon from Japanesestudies.org.uk.
  50. ↑ Azuma, Hiroki. (2007) "The Animalization of Otaku Civilization" Mechademia two 175-188.
  51. ↑ Azuma, Hiroki. (2009) Otaku: Japan's Database Animals. Minneapolis: Academy of Minnesota Printing pp. 48-52
  52. ↑ Top 25 Anime Characters of All Time from IGN.
  53. ↑ 10 Iconic Anime Heroines from Mania Amusement.
  54. ↑ Which Anime Character Do You Wish You Could Exist Friends With? from Anime News Network.
  55. ↑ Evangelion: 1.0.one You Are [Not] Alone (dub version) from Anime News Network.
  56. ↑ Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance from Anime News Network.
  57. ↑ "The release in Oct 1995 of Neon Genesis Evangelion on Japanese TV ignited a boom in merchandise unprecedented in a land already awash with such goods. Equally if overnight, well over 600 different items were made to commemorate the outcome. Figures were the virtually popular, with the inimitable bandaged Rei outselling all else. The Eva girls, kitted out in swimwear and striking suggestive poses, were, overall, a huge success, and things went a bit too far…" pg 126 of Fujie 2004. Run into as well: "Arguably, it is because of Anno'due south dictates on design that few Evangelion toys were initially made. But figures of Rei, in all her bandaged beauty, sold like wild fire. This is probably the first and just example of an animated [mecha] series where reproductions of the human characters outsold those of the robots." pg 98.
  58. ↑ "Rei'south popularity soared in Japan, with books featuring her paradigm on the cover selling like hot cakes. She was christened by media, "The girl who manipulates magazine sales at volition", "The fastest route to the sold-out sign!" And even, "The Premium Girl."" pg 39 of Fujie 2004


Rei Ayanami (綾波 レイ [ ? ] , "Ayanami Rei") is a fictional character from Rebuild of Evangelion moving picture serial. She is the First Child, (referred as the Offset Children in the Japanese version), the pilot of Evangelion Unit-00.

Contents

  • one Advent
  • 2 Story
    • two.1 Rei Ayanami (tentative name)
  • 3 Notes

Appearance

Rei has short pale bluish hair with bangs centered to the middle and has red optics. In the first movie of the series, she would article of clothing bandages such equally her arm and her left heart. She wears the aforementioned school uniform but wears white loafers instead, and blackness ankle socks.

In Evangelion: two.0 You lot Can (Not) Accelerate, when visiting the ocean inquiry facility, unlike other characters who uses casual clothes, she notwithstanding uses her school compatible.

Her plugsuit is generally white, with black, red, and dark green accents stylized in most places of her plugsuit.

In Evangelion: iii.0 You Can (Not) Redo, Rei Ayanami (tentative name) is given a new gray plugsuit.

Story

Rei merges with Unit-01

In Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Rei did non show much change from her previous incarnation. However, her human relationship with Gendo seems to be closer than in NGE as Shinji sees Rei and Gendo chatting happily from his Eva. The most drastic change was that when Shinji smiled at her after the battle with Sixth Angel, she did not come across a flash of Gendo Ikari. In this version, at least, she is genuinely smiling at Shinji.

In Evangelion: 2.0 You lot Can (Non) Advance, her character begins to develop further and her relationship with Shinji is shown much more openly than in the original series. She attempts to host a dinner political party for Shinji and his Male parent and is shown to piece of work very difficult while preparing the food, she is seen having multiple (bandaged) pocketknife cuts on her fingers. Asuka takes her position as the exam pilot for the Evangelion Unit-03 (Rebuild) and Rei calls her to thank her. During the climax, she is devoured along with Unit of measurement-00 by Tenth Affections after her attempt to kill the Affections with N² Missile ando as well saving Mari Makinami Illustrious and Evangelion Unit-02 (Rebuild) in the process.

When Unit of measurement-01 goes berserk, Shinji is shown forcing his manner into the affections and pulling her out and the ii embrace each other. At the terminate of the film, they are both trapped within Unit-01. In the preview at the terminate of Evangelion 2.22, there are three kid Reis and one adult Rei in what appears to be a prison alongside Mari. The children appear to take pink eyes as opposed to the regal of the older one.

Rei Ayanami (tentative name)

The Rei that appears in the starting time two movies does not return in Evangelion 3.0: Yous Can (Not) Redo, instead being replaced past a clone from the Ayanami Series, mostly referred equally Rei Ayanami (tentative name) (アヤナミレイ(仮称) [ ? ] ). This Rei is very dissimilar from Rei Ayanami in the two previous movies, as well as the original. She is by and large seen wearing a black plugsuit for Mark.09. Her pilus is slightly longer, and her facial expression looks more inexpressive. "Rei" is neither emotional, nor does she remember her past self, similar her interests or the people she take met earlier. The but matter she does is to carry out orders from Gendo Ikari. Her emotionless personality annoys Asuka, and devastates Shinji, causing the latter to endure a mental breakdown after Fuyutsuki reveals the origin of Rei and the relationship with his mother. Rei starts feeling doubtful about her condition and wonders nigh the original Rei when she fails to regain control of the puppeted Mark.09.

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In Evangelion: 3.0+i.0 Thrice Upon A Time, the new Rei clone arrives with Shinji and Asuka at the survivor's village. She slowly adjusts to village life, assisted primarily by Hikari Suzuhara, whom together with Tōji Suzuhara calls her "lookalike", realizing she is not the same Rei they knew. She expresses curiosity at her girl Tsubame Suzuhara, and exhibits an well-nigh kid-like behaviour of sheer wonder. Rei settles as a farmer and goes to school, befriending the children of the village, as she starts to learn to socialize and finds her own individuality, distinct from the earlier Rei, and finds purpose in her life. Asuka maintains antipathy at her when she asks about Shinji's whereabouts. She goes to meet him, just he remains despondent and guilty over not saving the original Rei. Rei keeps trying to find her own individuality, and tries on new apparel, and wants a proper proper noun for herself. At Shinji's suggestions, she settles on only "Ayanami". All the same, Rei cannot maintain her class without constant exposure to LCL, and decomposes in front of Shinji, farther motivating his conclusion to accept responsibility. After the death of Rei Ayanami (tentative name), Gendo and Fuyutsuki have a conversation. In that scene, it was revealed that Rei Ayanami (tentative proper name) was in fact Ayanami-Type No.006. (pronounced Ayanami number 6 in the English dubbed version)

In the final boxing against NERV, Shinji finds the original Rei clone inside Unit-01, now with long hair. Rei apologizes that she was not able to make information technology then that he wouldn't accept to go into a Eva once more, but Shinji tells her it's alright and that he'll take care of the residuum. During Instrumentality, there is a flashback to Gendo and Yui Ikari (Rebuild) talking to each other, and reflecting on how, if they had a daughter, she'd be named Rei. Rei talks with Shinji and accepts living in a globe without Evas, as a new place for her to vest, she thanks him, shakes hands with him, Shinji initiates the Neon Genesis. In the ending, Rei and Kaworu are seen as adults (with a similar age of that of Shinji'due south and Mari's) staring to each other.

Notes

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