For years I was a die hard Asuka fag but after my fourth rewatch of NGE I realized that Im actually a Rei guy...

>only 9 watches in 10 years
what is this amateur hour

I don’t count the time I watched it dubbed to laugh or my false starts or my 5+ rewatches of EoE without the series

Before watching, I liked Rei just based on her character design. Then as I got spoiled on the plot I became an Asukafag, but still didn't care enough to actually watch the show.
Eventually I did get around to watching it and I don't know if I would consider myself a Reifag but I started appreciating Rei a lot more after that.

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Asukafag after the show, but Ayanami Raising Project gave me a new appreciation for Rei and now I Why Not Both.

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Based. In my experience most people start off as a Reifag because she's a cute submissive waifu and don't like Asuka because she's cunty. But usually after a rewatch or two where you can actually pick up on the nuance in Asuka's interactions and get more into her mind, a lot of people change over.

Me and two of my buddies all went through this process.

Gotta space them out. He only has a couple left before Ritsuko starts looking cute and sympathetic.

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This rewatch I noticed how she was kind of cute, I surprised myself. Not sympathetic yet though. Maybe a few more years.

if you waifu a 14 year old fictional character you are a faggot and have squandered your free will

Based and Loli-pilled.

I'm a Reifag but she's not my waifu (more like my daughteru) and I have never considered Rei submissive, and I don't get how anyone could.

Sure, at first she follows Gendo's orders because that's pretty much her single attachment to life and to feeling like she's useful for something. But once she starts developing, she makes decisions on her own.

To everyone else she isn't submissive at all. Hell, loli Rei was such a little cheeky cunt to Ritsuko's mother that she got killed, Shinji got slapped by Rei II, Asuka got put in her place, Gendo got ignored, and then Rei III tells Gendo to go fuck himself to go and support Shinji.

I swear that Asukafags try and sell Rei as the inferior choice claiming their waifu is oh so nuanced, when Asuka's character has the subtletly of a train crash.

And yet here we are, decades later, and those same people still try to claim Rei is submissive or a doll or lacks personality. It really only shows that actual nuanced characterization just flies over their heads.

At the end of the day the vast majority of Rei’s character is following orders. If she recognized your authority, or had a crush on you, you could basically get her to do anything.

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I love Rei and enjoyed seeing her character progression up until the end of the show as she learns to think for herself. I think the point is if she Rei 'likes' you in NGE she basically will do whatever you say as if it was a direct order as opposed to thinking moreso for herself, although some of this does get remedied as you get furthur in the series.

To me Rei just seems more like a stand-in for Instrumentality and Asuka a stand-in for reality, which was also shown pretty literally in EoE.

Nope, still Asuka.

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It isn't, though. Like I already mentioned, at the start following Gendo's orders is basically Rei's only connection to the world and where her sense of worth comes from.

But that changes after she bonds with Shinji and realizes there's more to life than Gendo piloting. Case in point, if I remember correctly, Gendo speficially orders her to get the fuck out of there and yet Rei still decides to blow herself up to save Shinji.

>If she recognized your authority, or had a crush on you, you could basically get her to do anything.
Not the Rei she becomes, no. Unless the guy is like Shinji, in which case Rei would have no reason not to give stuff a try since it's obvious he only has her well-being in mind.

I started as a Reifag, became a Misatofag, had a brief crush on Shinji, and now I'm an Asukafag. Every rewatch results in a new favourite. Maybe this time I'll revert back to a Reifag and start the cycle over again.

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>picking ANY Evangelion girl
They're all complete and utter basket cases in one way or another. virtually every single one except maybe Maya.

I like the command center lesbian

She's screwed up, too, we just never see how or why. She finds out she lives in a computer-operated totalitarian city-state with its own secret police and a sham government, she just thinks that sounds great.

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I don't know. Each rewatch I've drowned in my own tears. I love them all. Misato, Asuka, Shinji, Rei. All of them have a special place in my heart. All of them have something I can relate to. All of them I wish to hug.

Based.

I was a Reifag as a teenager, then I became a Misatofag, but I've been veering towards Ritsuko lately.

i don't want to be with any of these women to be honest

compared to the other human wrecks we're exposed to she's fucking normal.

I've always loved Asuka but I don't find her that attractive, while I want to fuck Rei

You will become a Kaworufag

I'm not sure I'm okay with that

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