Also her bitcheness makes her totally hotter but in all seriousness her bitcheness and her thinking she is the best is all a facade and when she admits she hates herself you just want to give her a nice hug.
Post by Xard » Thu Jan 05, am She's sexy. I like Asuka now but everyone has different reasons to like her. I can relate to her, and I find her "bitchiness" as some call it to be charming. And I dunno, maybe I'm a shallow person but something happened to me that I now can't resist the fiery-type personality characters.
At some points in the series I enjoyed her more than Rei. On a second, past puberty-stage more serious rewatch, apart from the fact that a lot of her lines were still crackers, I guess her complexity and emotional issues etc.
In a nutshell, I guess a lot of people, myself included, like her because despite her horrid childhood and trauma she went through, she manages to carry on and take pride in the most difficult task of the world; to save the world.
Anime and manga unite us all. Much better than the Olympics. For me it really was also case of being very relatable at the time - as well as being superbly written, fascinating character in general. I like Rei just fine though. I like Asuka because of her energetic personality in the first half, and how her issues are explored and dealt with in the second half. Overall she's just fascinating like the rest of the cast. Shikinami I have no real input on since the NME series isn't completed yet--I'm sure I'll have plenty to say on her when it's over other than she's cute, but no Soryu.
The first primary is the girl is like the the frickin' Terminator, once she sets her mind to something she'll go after it like a wolverine, even while being boiled alive or stabbed to death, she just never gives up on the battlefield. The second primary is that, well, she's a Woobie; she suffered a horribly traumatic childhood, had no-one to turn to, and she's suffered with mental illness BPD, PTSD, paranoia, suicidal tendencies, etc.
Heck, I find it impossible not to like her. Sic Semper Tyrannus Carry on. Okay, so plot compression I can take. Maybeee the gratuitous fanservice too, though it's quite annoying and illogical Why does Misato bring her phone into the shower?
Anime Opinion Piece. Very kind and tender Because Asuka is strict with herself she can apply the same to other people. Her sociable personality The EVA pilots are definitely an eccentric bunch, out of those the one with the most direct and upfront personality is Asuka.
Translation by JenJen. Her behavior is totally justified. Shocked Offline Joined: Jan Posts: I'm going to kill a kitten every time someone pretends Shinji is whiny. Shinji's balls are bigger than yer head and made of motherfucking steel. Do you know many depressive people who would refuse the "primordial jelly stuff where there's no fear and everybody understands everyone else" just because hestill needs to lose his virginity? Shinji does angst and complain a lot He's being forced to grow up in a harsh world when he just isn't ready for it.
I totally get what your saying but when she was defeated by Angel 15 she just gives up. The whole show revolves around this theme. Hell, the whole show consists of psychologically broken people. If Asuka or anyone in the show just get over them just like that, we would have an entirely different show. It wouldn't be Evangelion, anymore. Or, did you just watch it for the mechas? If so, then this doesn't matter then. BBCode my lastfm my letterboxd.
I think even if a character is unlikable the better written a character the great the emotional effect. She's doesn't seem like some cheap Tsundere meant to bully the MC just for kicks. I can't really go too far in since I've never watched past the 2nd episode but from what I've picked up her character doesn't stop at cliche values or have a type of dead-man switch so fans will "like" her.
So even if you get chills every I'd say she's a darker version of Nadia from the secret of Blue water. Oddly enough I think it was Nadia who made the creator go into a depressive slump before or possibly before EVA. All in all, if you find yourself getting chills every time a particular character pops on screen or find yourself watching 20 or 30 seconds of an episode of a series, just to hear the dialogue, years after completing a series I would think the VA and character had some success as sch.
Better done than Yuu, at least. Kagami Offline Joined: Jun Posts: Haha no, Yuu's problem is the exact opposite. He's so eager to attack the world that he doesn't want to sit down and listen to more thought-out plans by other people. NGE has good characters. They're excellently written and well thought out. That's perfect. Shinji is a 14 years old boy Hello, puberty with some serious psychological problems because of Gendo, to be exact. How would a boy like that act in the setting of Evangelion?
There lies the genius of Hideaki Anno. Also, that's just oversimplifying it. Out of curiosity, what do you think of Elfen Lied's cast? Also, the score does not just portray the cast. Works for both tbh.
It's not so much his headstrong but more so how it's played out, it just doesn't seem as believable. He's got the reason to be angry and down when he loses against vampires and all but it just comes off as shallow. He could've been more reserved and his trust issues should've been more extended and a tad more subtle.
You don't walk away from that trauma acting like a brash hot-head, especially since it all started hella early with your parents and you've barely seen the world for what it was before.
But then again it may be easier to come to grasp if you're a certain age when everything goes to shit. Never knew my ad so it doesn't bother me he isn't there, but if he just left when I was 15 or some shit I'd prolly have a hard time. The start contrast in Trigun mid-series also helps delivers just how serious the MC's predicament is.
Even if he starts off as a fool if you do it right it'll really intrigue the audience. BBCode "The law doesn't protect people, people protect the law. You Offline Joined: Apr Posts: He also described his belief that the relationship between Asuka and Shinji would be similar to the relationship between Jean, Nadia's love interest and eventual husband in the earlier Nadia. Asuka's personality, as well of those for the other characters, was designed so as to be understood at a glance.
Asuka has long auburn hair and dark blue eyes. Asuka's hair is loose with the flanks held in twin tails with her red Interface Headset. She wears a school uniform as her most iconic outfit, which consisted of a dark blue pleated overall dress over a white button-up blouse with short puffed sleeves, a red bow attached to the collar, white knee socks with red stripes and black Mary Jane shoes.
She wears a red watch on her wrist. She also wears outfits such as her pale yellow dress with a lavender choker and red Mary Jane shoes. Her plugsuit is red, stylized with fancy layers and accents with a 02 symbol printed onto the plugsuit. When Asuka was four years old, Kyoko participated in a contact experiment with Unit, similar to the experiment performed by Yui Ikari with Unit She survived the test but became insane, believing that Asuka's doll was her daughter and refusing to acknowledge the real Asuka, referring to her as "that girl over there.
Not many details about Asuka's father are revealed. What is known about his background is only what can be inferred from Asuka's own; namely that he is an American citizen and that his last name is Langley. Following Kyoko's hospitalization, he started an affair with a German doctor in charge of Kyoko's case, and would later marry her shortly after Kyoko's suicide. This new mother is immediately repelled by Asuka's defensive nature, and finds herself unable to become attached to her.
While talking to Shinji, Asuka states that she doesn't hate her stepmother, but she feels as if she could never replace her real mother. During Kyoko's funeral, Asuka's grandmother had said to Asuka that she was "a strong girl", but it was alright if she needed to cry. However, Asuka protested against the idea and told her grandmother that she had to take care of herself from now on. From that day forward, Asuka promised herself that she would never cry again.
This causes her to repress a lot of her emotions, not to mention the emotional scarring that came from her mother's illness and death, leaving her twisted and vulnerable towards the end of the series.
Asuka is a very proud individual, especially in her piloting, and comes across to others as proud and strong, with a very high opinion of both her appearance particularly her recently "busty" body and her skill as an Eva pilot.
She is stubborn and finds it difficult to express her true feelings to others. She does not like being looked down upon or told what to do as she wants to be viewed as an adult. She is aggressive and can be very opinionated. However, this personality is a front that protects a very vulnerable and insecure girl, a side which the viewer sees in her dreams or thoughts. She is often violent and intrusive of other people's space, especially Shinji's.
She also has a strong need to be self-sufficient, and has a great deal of difficulty dealing with her self-perceived failure when she does need help; as her seiyuu Yuko Miyamura wrote of her experiences playing Asuka:. Even in the end, she would never step across the line and draw closer to me.
The last scene in The End of Evangelion was done, and still she had never stepped across that line and come forward. One day, I figured out that there was a wall in Asuka's heart. Thus her relationship with Shinji is one of the core aspects of the series, and affects both characters on multiple levels see next section. Her best and seemingly her only close friend is her class representative, Hikari Horaki.
Although Asuka and classmate Toji Suzuhara constantly argue, she gives Hikari advice about pursuing Toji. Asuka is openly infatuated with Ryoji Kaji , her former guardian after her mother died, and makes a number of advances toward him which he politely refuses. For this reason, she envies her and Shinji's guardian, Misato Katsuragi , especially after Misato and Kaji rekindle their romantic relationship. A common interpretation is to see Misato as Asuka's positive adult role model, with Ritsuko as a more negative model.
She also initially tries to befriend Rei Ayanami , but Rei is uninterested. Asuka interprets this as arrogance, and starts to developed deep antipathy towards her. In the English dub, she calls her "wonder girl". In Episode 22 , they share an elevator ride in which Rei tells her she needs to open herself to her Eva as Asuka's synch scores are falling, but Asuka violently lashes out, and calls her " the Commander's doll", clearly projecting Rei onto her mother's doll and her own hatred of them.
In her early appearances, Asuka has a high synchronization ratio and displays exceptional skill as an Eva pilot. She is also very aggressive and confident in battle, which works both for and against her as the series progresses. After being defeated in battle by the Angel Zeruel , Asuka's self-confidence and, correspondingly, her sync ratio and effectiveness as a pilot begins to dwindle. This comes to a head in Episode 22 , when the Angel Arael appears.
Burdened by increasingly poor results in synchronization tests, Asuka is infuriated when she is ordered to serve as backup for Rei. She launches herself in Unit and tries to attack the Angel alone but is overwhelmed by its attack, which forces her to relive the painful memories of her past and causes her to suffer a mental and emotional breakdown, and is unable to even activate her Eva in the following episode.
Asuka runs away from home, and is eventually found by NERV in a bath tub , starving and near death, as without being able to pilot, Asuka believes she has no reason left to live. With Unit submerged in a lake and bombarded by depth charges, Asuka declares that she does not want to die and, in a moment of clarity, realizes that her mother's soul is carried within the Eva and has been protecting her all along.
They proceed to eviscerate and dismember Unit using their Spear of Longinus replicas, thus causing Asuka's body to actually suffer the wounds inflicted to the machine and apparently killing her her Entry Plug is never seen being destroyed, but the NERV staff appear to believe she's dead. During this final assault, Asuka is briefly able to reactivate Unit through pure fury, but only enough for it to move its arm slightly, nowhere near the full "Berserker" mode that Shinji is able to achieve.
Her final words before death are a whispered "I'll kill you", repeated more and more frantically. Inside Instrumentality, Asuka also demands that Shinji give himself to her, but Shinji is unwilling to give back any affection himself. Asuka confronts Shinji as he desperately asks for help and says he wants to stay with her forever, but Asuka rejects him, claiming he only wants to use her as an escape. Outraged, Shinji chokes her. She is the second person to come back from Instrumentality at the conclusion of the movie , after Shinji rejects it.
Asuka caresses Shinji tenderly in a manner reminiscent of Yui, which stops him from choking her again. Asuka's final line is "kimochi warui", roughly translated as "How disgusting". Asuka kissing Shinji in Episode Throughout the series, Shinji carries out a deceptively straightforward relationship with Asuka, who is going through puberty and deeply confused and uncertain:. You are forced to learn. It's puberty, where you decide what kind of life you're going to live, right?
Evangelion came to its climax just as you hit that point, but after that, what would your choices be, Asuka? What good would you try to do? What kind of adult would you grow into? Asuka and Shinji in sync during the battle with Israfel in Episode 9.
Shinji and Asuka are seemingly attracted to each other, but neither is able to properly express their feelings. Asuka's overbearing attitude and inability to admit her vulnerabilities keeps her from opening up to Shinji. In the episodes shortly after their first meeting, she seems to enjoy flirting with him and teasing him sexually. Nonetheless, it is through her that Shinji finds the confidence he needed to work hard at synchronizing his movements with hers to defeat the Angel Israfel in Episode 9.
The Director's Cut of Episode 22 reveals that, despite her actions, she still wants Shinji's affections and is saddened, frustrated and angered by his shying away from her unable to recognize that her taunts and aggression are keeping him from getting close to her , and has interpreted his earlier passiveness and lack of reaction as conscious rejection. You don't do anything! You won't help me! You won't even hold me! These lines are juxtaposed with Shinji, for instance, rescuing her from the volcano in Episode 10 , paying attention to her, showing the clash between Shinji's actions and Asuka's expectations, even as Asuka has difficulty accepting Shinji and recognizing his own insecurities, as well as Asuka's many provocations - like when she tried to tease him in Episode 9 , only to be frustrated at him not picking up on her advances.
She also seems to be very jealous of Shinji's friendship with Rei, which deepens her disgust toward Rei and fuels her venom toward her, especially in the later episodes. The fractured state of Asuka and Shinji's relationship becomes a key factor on events in The End of Evangelion. At the start of the movie, Shinji is shown with Asuka in her hospital room, begging her for help and trying to rouse her from unconsciousness.
He accidentally pulls loose her vital sign monitors, exposing her breasts; he masturbates to this sight, but afterward is horrified and disgusted with himself for doing so.
His guilt and increased self-loathing add to his previous traumas and cause him to become so uncaring of his own existence that he does not resist when the invading JSSDF soldiers try to kill him. This forces Misato to save him and to try to rouse him from this state so that he can escape the GeoFront in Unit The beginning of the trauma of seeing the mangled remains of Unit in the hands of the MP Evas causes Shinji to enter to panic, and he enters Instrumentality as Yui asks him what he wishes for and he has a vision of a woman's clutched breasts.
Asuka loudly proclaims she can't stand the sight of him, but Shinji replies that it is because he is just like her, as she is implied to be in some sort of sexual fantasy or activity inside Instrumentality with him. Asuka then confronts him on his masturbation at the hospital earlier, claiming that not only she knows about it, but that it is, in fact, a habit, and she dares him to do it again in front of her.
Shinji, however, replies that he cannot understand Asuka because she won't tell him anything. In a scene reminiscent of their kiss scene in Episode 15 , he begs Asuka for help, stating he is afraid of Misato and Rei, while also revealing his true feelings for Asuka "I want to help you, and I want to stay with you forever You're the only person who can help me.
However, Asuka refuses, claiming he is only using her as an escape. Overwhelmed with his own hopelessness upon her refusing, Shinji loses control and strangles her. However, in the aftermath of the film's finale, Shinji appears on a beach with none other than Asuka, the first person after him to return from Instrumentality. He tries to strangle her; she does not physically resist him, but instead lifts her hand to stroke his face - incidentally, as Yui had done earlier before as Shinji rejected Instrumentality.
As the series ends there, the specifics of her and Shinji's subsequent lives are left up to the audience. It is implied that this occurs very soon after the final scene. Asuka's exact feelings towards Shinji are contradictory, as she seeks love and support from him, but refuses to show it [16] , and Shinji has difficulty reciprocating, due to their mutual misunderstandings.
In contrast to the simple "favourable feelings" Shinji has with most other characters, Evangelion Chronicle describes their relationship as "complex feelings" and "love and hate. In the manga adaptation by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto , Asuka is somewhat tamer than her anime counterpart. Though self-centered seemingly even more so than in the anime , she's on slightly better terms with Shinji.
She first appears in volume 4 of the series. There were many changes to the sequence of events concerning her. In the anime, her first battle against Gaghiel took up an entire episode and included an arguably vital assist from Shinji. In the manga, her solo defeat of the angel is only briefly mentioned in a video clip about her shown by Dr. Ritsuko Akagi to Misato, Rei, and Shinji. Shinji's first actual meeting with Asuka is also depicted differently. In the anime, their first meeting is aboard the naval carrier Over the Rainbow, and Asuka allows Shinji into the cockpit of Unit while she fights Gaghiel.
In the manga, Shinji, Toji, and Kensuke first encounter Asuka at an arcade, where she is unable to grab the toy she wants from the machine she is playing. She then notices the boys staring at her and demands a "viewing fee" from them for seeing her panties yen, as opposed to the anime in which Toji's "viewing fee" is a slap across the face. She and Toji begin to quarrel, and then Asuka accidentally bumps into a thug and is threatened by his gang. Asuka then proceeds to single-handedly take on—and defeat—the entire gang.
Shinji is punched in the face by one of the thugs during the melee, and not until he arrives at NERV headquarters does he learn that the girl he has just met is in fact Asuka. In the fight against Israfel , instead of staying in Misato's apartment, she is put in a special room with Shinji, monitored via a hidden camera by Misato.
Also, her background is changed so that she is actually a test-tube baby. Asuka's mother and her husband were unable to conceive a child, and divorced after he had an affair.
When he re-married and was able to have a daughter with his new wife, Kyoko decided to be artificially inseminated. The result was Asuka. Asuka's "father" is barely mentioned, though she claims that he was a renowned scientist and that the sperm bank was part of a eugenics program. However, despite her knowledge of her "father's" achievements, Asuka still suffers from an inferiority complex.
In her mind, the circumstances of her conception mean that she is nothing more than spare parts or that she is artificial in nature, although she puts another spin on this while talking about it with Shinji. The feelings of inferiority that accompany these opinions are what drive her to overachieve and overcompensate. Also, Asuka has repressed the memories of her mother's death, making Arael's attack on her psyche especially traumatic; it is revealed that at some point before her mother's suicide, she tried to strangle Asuka.
The manga re-imagines the infamous hospital opening scene from The End of Evangelion with Asuka and Shinji, beginning much the same way it does in the movie. However, from here it diverges incredibly. Shinji shouts that the Asuka he wants isn't the girl lying before him and Asuka seems to awaken from her coma and temporarily strangles Shinji. Luckily, NERV hospital staff separate the two and Shinji is led out as Asuka angrily screams that she hates everybody.
Shinji breaks down crying over this and is traumatized by what she said to him. While she is defeated by the MP Evangelions, neither her nor Unit suffer the same fate as they do in the movie. Just when the MP Evangelions are about to finish her off, Shinji arrives in Unit and defeats them. While initially wondering if Shinji was waiting for the right moment to appear, she is grateful that Shinji saved her. However, just when they thought it was over, the MP Evangelions reactivate due to them having S2 Engines Afterwards, Asuka watches as Unit fully awakens, is stopped by the Lance of Longinus , which returned to Earth, and is crucified by the MP Evangelions.
She then tearfully watches as the MP Evangelions drag Unit, with Shinji still in it, into the atmosphere and begin the Third Impact. Her transition guide is Kaji, which she takes to mean that Kaji loved her all along. She then reverts to LCL.
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