What makes Asuka the best character?
What makes Asuka the best character?
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Thats not shinji
How much of myself I see in her
Are you talking about narcissism, or self-loathing?
Yes. But also the reluctance to rely on others and deep need for success and validation.
The funny thing is Asuka does rely on others, though.
But she's reluctant and conflicted about it
See: her relationship with shinji
This, plus it triggers my must protect instinct. She really needed somebody to push past her false ego and just give her a hug desu
Asuka suffered more than anyone
It's funny (as in, sad) that you can say this without taking into account her horrible death, and it'd still be true.
No way! This bitch is the best character!
Just kidding. I guess I don't really have a favorite character. I'm just content to watch the ensemble.
Ther perkiness
>mother killed herself
>replaced by doll
>father and step mom don't care about her
>misato gives preferential treatment to Shinji
>plot wise is replacable
>only pillar of self worth of piloting completely destroyed and surpassed by her rival and friend
>literally mind raped
>rejected by Kaji because she's a child (I feel like she knew it would never work subconsciously though)
>too traumatized to lower her ego so she could connect with Shinji, the one peer she deems on her level for support and affection, interprets his autism for rejection and then he surpasses her in piloting
>who waits in the hospital for Asuka?
>tortured and painfully ripped apart right after she realizes her mother still loved her
She had a hard life
Extremely fuckable body.
>literal redheaded stepchild
>>who waits in the hospital for Asuka?
To be fair shinji was looking for her, and when he finally found out that she tried to sudoku he visited her, even if it led to him spanking his willy
I'm sure in any other situation he would've went to see her and tried in his own way to help. Shinji gets a bad wrap, he genuinely cares about people but doesn't know how to translate that care into genuine acts of affection.
But considering everything that he went through in those last few episodes, he was literally at the lowest of lows he's ever experienced. Any chance the two had at supporting each other was destroyed by NERV.
It's less about her being the best, and more about her being the most entertaining to watch. She's emotive unlike Rei, open unlike Shinji, and is dynamic without degrading herself unlike Misato. And her inner problems contrast so well with her outer attitude. That's what makes her breakdown so memorable.
She has the best ratio between complexity and levity.
Her red hair and German roots
It was a cry for attention deal, too. She was living in rubble for a week first and by the time we see her she's mumbling about her life not being worth it because nobody wants her, she waited for somebody to come find her.
14 years old and no pubes yet, she's so immature.
How can you be sure?
I still haven't found a relationship I like more than Asuka and Shinji's. It's done so well. How almost everything she says to him has a deeper or dual meaning is really cool.
You can see in this frame
The orange pussy hair.
Everything
Her small and leaky bladder.
Lifting Asuka by her immaculately trimmed ginger minge!
How I wish both of them weren't massive autists and just confessed their love for each other
Don't have anything to add, I'm just happy to be here.
Honestly both Rei and Asuka were fairly boring chracters, Misato was definitely my favorite.
>love for each other
Cmon now they're 14. Obviously the sexual/emotional/quasi romantic attraction but that would mean Shinji would have to stop being an avoidant autist or Asuka would have to accept that she wants somebody to care about her rather than making plausible deniable attempts to hide it, which really isn't possible with NERV fuckery going about.
>and just confessed their love for each other
Like how Shinji and Kaworu did? :^)
it begins
Best episode in the series, too.
based kawoshin chad, let the asukafags seethe over what never happened
the idea of her both craving attention and rejecting it at the same time makes her interesting. Something I can personally relate to all too much
also the whole ass speech about how she hates everything but most of all hates herself
as long as retards dont respond to it it's fine
Too bad they don't love each other.
this kills the asukafag
Indeed, they're getting desperate.
who is they
>They
>more than one
If you're watching Eva for romance, you're doing it wrong. There is series dedicated to that purpose.
You're the reason we need directors cuts.
I genuinely don't know what this is supposed to imply
She is flawed and in the forefront most of the series.
I dont waifu neither her nor any of the other eva girls, but i like Asuka the most because she is the most interesting.
Rei just doesnt have enough screen time.
All
It is a big part of the mood. Mostly for the confusion and frustration over it, and the resentment for these people that are making them confused and frustrated.
Me either; guess we need the director's cut of his reply.
Asuka is less relevant to everything than Gendou, and it seems like she might realize it herself and overcompensates by being a tryhard. Rei, Shinji, and Kowaru are the only ones that matter.
Asuka matters so little that anno literally forgot her name.
Their relationship isn't very romantic, though. It's two broken 13/14 year olds whom have been emotionally neglected their entire lives. They don't even know friendship or companionship. Asuka and Shinji are desperate for other people to care about them and not abandon them. They are dependent people, and dependent people are terrified of people abandoning them.
Rei is the one anno forgot
Romance and sexuality is a big part of Eva and it's portayal of the Hedgehog's Dilemma though. Especially between Misato+Kaji and Asuka+Shinji. The contrast of their want to be close and receive affection versus the pain they get from being vulnerable.
Asuka matters so little that anno literally forgot her name.
this is not a statement of opinion.
>rei and kaworu fags this desperate because a character with no actual plot relevance is more popular and fleshed out than theirs
oh you're retarded.
Rei has been the most popular Eva girl since 1996 with millions of expies made of her in other anime
Misato genuinely cares about Kaji and visa versa, they've always been close. Asuka does not.
>there was no sexual tension or emotional want between the characters listed
OK retard
>popular is good
I want to lick asuka's nipples
space nigger trannies have arrived
Most popular girls of the 1990s:
1. Ayanami Rei
2. Usagi from Sailor Moon
3. Asuka
4. Sakura from Cardcaptor
5. Ruri
Most popular boys of the 1990s:
1. Shinji Ikari
2. Kaworu Nagisa
3. Sakaragi from Slam Dunk
4. Hiro Yui from Gundam
Even Kaworu is more popular than Asuka
ive never seen it go without replies, people can't control themselves
Do you perhaps even know what happened in Evangelion?
Give me your quick rundown.
Why do Asukafags always cry when people debunk their posts? I never see any other fanbase act like such safe space babies.
>insectoids have shit taste
both Asuka and Misato are more popular among humans
Asuka and Misato were also made by "insectoids" you retard.
Shinji is the imaginary dick and Asuka their waifu. That's the state of these threads.
Nice argument retard
>shinji jerked off while looking at asuka's tits so therefore best girl
It's a shame because they don't even care about Shinji and Asuka's characters, just their warped headcanon version of them. I can't really consider them fellow Evafans.
>asukafag seething so much he replies to the wrong post
She was a pretty bland NPC
No, they were made by anno who is dissapointu in his countrymen for liking rei
Delete this :(
Asuka strong mind that bends the cock to her will
Is the homo and the self-inserting femcel the same person?
obviously
eva thread post theories
>all impacts have been "third impacts"
>even second impact was just another impact involving japan, and didn't happen in Antarctica at all
>they tend to end up in tang situations which somehow encourage some kind of soft-reset on humanity to "redo" it all
>>shinji watched his mom be absorbed when he was a bab, where the 'eva graveyard' is
>despite this supposing to have happened in the antarctic expedition, the 'eva graveyard' is actually in the geofront
>all "humanity ending" impacts occur in japan
>this potentially makes the 'third impact' which occurs in EoE actually the fourth time that kind of world-ending event had happened, assuming the real third time it happened was with shinji's mom
>Rebuilds obviously take place in the same continuity after EoE.
>kawaru awakens on the moon in a fifth coffin, the preceding four had been opened and the ones after him have not, making Rebuild's kawaru the 5th kawaru.
>Rebuild's Kawaru seems to know specifically about Shinji even before they meet
>the area Kawaru awakens on the moon is covered in a streak of blood, much like the blood that is spewed upon the moon at the end of EoE
>The Angels tend to behave or look differently than they did in the original 26EP run of eva, so Angels might retain some memories in general, allowing for Kawaru to have retained some about Shinji
>Shinji almost causes the fifth impact at the end of the second Rebuild, which Kawaru interrupts and stops - providing evidence that as far as Kawaru knows, he (and maybe evenall the Angels at large) are not trying to cause an Impact, if not directly trying to stop humans from causing an impact.
>Impacts are caused by humans, Angels are trying to stop impacts
>Asuka is shit
Why didn't she notice an instrument case when she was removing his stuff to steal his room?
Because incels can self-insert easily into Shinji and fantaszie getting with the popular girl in school just by being nice to her cause that's all she really wants!
It's less about romance and more of the obvious sexual attraction and longing for emotional care between them that gets trash binned because of their tism' and NERV hardships
>nobody is responding to it
Its getting desperate
you think she'd do the menial labor of moving herself?
>implying she didn't
>implying she didn't feign ignorance to compliment her friend
everyone who argues against this crazy asukafag is the same person apparently.
I only think she did it because it's all dumped in one box.
>kawaru
>kowaru
>cowroo
>karoruoru
20 years later and no one can spell Kaworu right
How human and cute she is. Indeed, shinji is a lucky guy
Cute
It's not that Angels aren't trying to cause an impact, is that's the impact is like a wish granting thing and the Angels want to use it to delete mankind, while Humans involved in the impacts have just ended up resetting Human life - so it's important to the Angels regarding /who/ initiates it. Kowaru stops Shinj in the 2nd film cause Shinji is a human, even if Eva-01 appears to be using a bunch of different Angel abilities at the time.
stop talking about it moron, it just fuels it even more
>cause Shinji is a human
He's not, though.
what's piercing his core? it looks like an average longsword or something?
Wonder if it's supposed to be more symbolically taken than literally taken
cool fanart
Low iq fags tend to generalize
It's the Eva's progknife, the short showed Eva 01 went beserk after the impact and was forcibly shut down during those 14 years. Apparently it broke free from Kaworu's spear.
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isn't the prog knife basically the same size as a human? If that's the 'real' shinji I don't see how the blade would be so small in comparison
Eh, I consider Toji and Hikari to be a real thing despite them being kids.
Probably a metaphorical representation of Eva 01 getting attacked and Shinji feeling it from his sync rate being so high
Toji never shows he loves Hikari though
It's sad that the only quality discussion in these threads comes from everyone who isn't an Asukafag. Their IQ only allows them to spam "uguu Asuka's tits are so hot!" over and over.
>tfw rei is flushed now
the bj penn of eva
Yeah but Toji and Hikari weren't nearly as fucked up as Asuka and Shinji were. Toji was a bro who loved his sister and Hikari's only real flaw was her extreme want to help others, which isn't really a flaw desu.
I'd say you can't really 'love' anybody romantically until you've actually been with them for a while. I'd still categorize it in the same sexual/emotional/quasi romantic thing that existed between Asuka and Shinji, except based Toji and Hikari could actually communicate and turn it into meaningful acts of care.
Asukafags are just low iq cum-brains who never got laid in High school
Kind of funny to think until Rebuild we never knew how Toji sister looked like.
>rei
who?
It's an abstraction of a dead Shinji still in Unit 01 and still speared through its core with Cassius, while a silhouette of an intact Unit 01 is going berserk marching on something and being shelled, and Gendo gives some kind of order. Possibly for the action that popped the heads off of all those things that look like Unit 01 reaching for something that were all over the movie and that short.
Yeah. She's cute as fuck in 3.0, my favorite new character. Although she doesn't at all look like the same character that would have grown up to be her in 2.0.
I agree. Asuka and Shinji would need to develop further.
Rei will always be the best
If they had enough of time and things didn't go straight to shit after Episode 15/16, they may have gotten comfortable enough to let their guard down around each other for a split second and actually act on it to support each other. But shit went off the deep end by that point and they had no real hope to overcome themselves.
Ya I agree that there is bond between Asuka and Shinji a desire they have for the other. But I would not describe it as love. They need to sort out there feelings and understand themselves better before they truly have a chance of a romantic relationship.
I just want to hold her..
That's not canon. The only canon sense in the series is that when the pilot's plug "dives" too deep into an eva's core, shit gets weird for them. Berserk Eva's are the beginning of weird shit when they dive too deep, but are recoverable. Then you get situations like Rei's or Shinji's where they go balls deep and transcend physical barriers. Rei did it once in the anime and then again in EoE, and so technically does Shinji also get dragged into it in EoE, but also Shinji ends up doing it trying to save Rei in the second Rebuild film.
Of course there are questions as to why when it happened in the rebuild, Eva-01 suddenly got all the Angel powers, but there's probably no doubt that Eva-01 being "like" an Angel at that time, Shinji was probably feeling "like" an Angel too given he was balls deep inside Eva-01, so deep in fact he unironically penetrated Eva-00's core.
Nevertheless, Kaworu had to have had a good reason to stop it all.
Honestly Rebuild's plot is much more confusing and contrived for me than NGE's was on my very first watch. I still really enjoy them tho
It is likely that Eva 01 is one of the four Adams in Rebuild. That would explain why it was showing all those angel like powers. And explain why it was regressing to a earlier state when it initiated the Third Impact.
>not working on yourself to get huge, successful and charismatic so that you can find your own Asuka in 3dpd
Well NGE's plot can be reflected upon cause it's just done, while we still need the 4th film to potentially wrap everything together in Rebuild.
The only general glimpse of the scope of the plot of the Rebuilds I can make is , or that Rebuild occurs as a sequel to EoE rather than actually being an alternate retelling of EP1-26.
>3DPD
You would hate a 3dpd Asuka
There's nothing that can fill the void unlike Asuka herself.
Her supple body.
This guy has ACK tier delusions. Everyone who disagrees is the same person.
But does Asuka really fill that void if you can't really hold her
>Long hair
>Pretty face
>brown/orange hair
This is my thing in real life.
I just try to hold her in my dreams.
She makes the best facial expressions
Sorry user
I liked this one more.
She's 14.
Why are they so cute together?
Continuation theory is practically confirmed at this point
Which I'm happy for because it means Kaworu is coming back
Kawuru has many spellings
It makes it annoying to search for his names in posts
you got the inaccurate translation dude
Cringe and normalfagpilled
i wonder if the 4th film will explain what happened during the 14 years between rebuild2 and rebuild3.
Thats for the new animated offshoot of Eva once rebuilds are done you idiot
I want this to be true but it still doesn't make sense. What happened to the other Asuka? Why is Shinji and everyone else still the same?
Because it implies the two finally, at least partly, overcame their respective autisms and can communicate like normal human beings now and actually act on how they feel towards others
Well they fought the 10th angel at the end of Rebuild2 and Kowaru becomes the 13th angel at the end of Rebuild3, so it couldn't have been all that exciting. Lots of things unrelated to angel attacks seem to have happened though, like the creation of Wille and somehow Eva-01 got into space and was orbiting earth.
Seems like it could be summed up in a montage. Evangelion is ancient at this point so it'd be nice to not need to wait 10 more years or whatever the fuck to get some kind of conclusion.
I am still curious if we will ever discover what was the 11th angel. Also when will we get official names for the 3rd, 7th, and 12th angel in the Rebuild continuity.
So this means we're getting gay pianos part 2?
They could probably make a mini-series about the parting between NERV and Willie after 2.0 and then the operations that take place up until 3.0 starts desu
As an AsuShin faggot I really liked gay piano. Kaworu was actually pretty based in 3.0 and taught some good lessons (or at least tried) to Shinji through actions instead of spouting verbiage at him for a few minutes that he couldn't understand
You know I am curious who died and made Gendo King of Lilin?
Does Rei die near the beginning of Rebuild3?
They're trying to make the Wunder ship fly and asuka goes beneath the ship underwater and does some shit, but for a few frames there is an exposed red sphere core after asuka pulls out her little glowy knife thing, then an explosion that makes a sound like Rei's screams.
suddenly feeling very sad
T. Anno
Razors exist.
why is that an anno thing to say
SEELE's plot to turn everyone into yellow glop was foiled by someone else's plan to turn us into yellow glop.
it probably just hurts to be plugged into a space battleship as a generator
it seems ambiguous. It's hard to tell if her core was removed and exploded, or if it just popped out for a second then went back in. The end of Rebuild2 shows the angel Eva-01 with two cores, so one is obviously Rei's. Seems like Asuka does something to Rei's core to start the engine of the Wunder, but the huge explosion just keeps it all ambiguous.
Come to think of it, the value of the angelic Eva-01 was because Rei and Shinji, or their two cores - so maybe it wouldn't really be all that useful as an engine if Rei's core was destroyed.
Hopefully that wasn't just lowkey Rei-getting-killed to start the Wunder's engine.
Kaworu is a cool dude, it's a shame he gets hate due to having a predominantly cancerous fanbase and other shippers getting triggered by his presence.
Yeah, honestly I don't mind him as a character. I like him more in Rebuilds because he is too deus ex machina-ish for me in NGE tho.
The problem is 75% of his fanbase, at least on here, shit up threads with their mere presence
overall i'd agree but i feel like the gay piano scenes ultimately detracted from that and, honestly, from their relationship in the film in general. they felt indulgent and kinda broke up the atmosphere in a detrimental way for me.
I think it was just a bit too long for me, it took some time out that could have been spent developing the relationship between Shinji and Misato and Asuka, my two other favorite characters.
It really drilled into the heads of the audience "go out and actually make something beautiful, make art, follow a passion and practice practice practice no matter how many times you fail instead of being stagnant", which is great for the anti-escapism vibes.
gay piano scenes were ultimately an artsy metaphor for their bond
It also made us aware to the fact that Shinji is a piano prodigy.
Or perhaps that Kaworu and Shinji are the same person
is the 4th film's dub going to be ruined?
Does Netflix have the licenses of the Rebuilds or just the original show and EoE?
Netflix claims the decision to recast was Studio Khara's, meaning Anno himself is fucking up english evangelion.
>eva
>caring about the dub
What do they do that 'shits up threads' in your opinion?
What makes you think that?
Yeah, that Shinji suddenly knew how to play piano seems kind of strange, like he was just learning it on the fly by playing with Kaworu, and that maybe he has become more like an angel thanks to what happened at the end of Rebuild2.
yeah i just mean the execution didn't work for me, the idea of a montage or even a more abstract sequence centered around music is totally fine, i think it's a good symbolic device too. kind of losing himself in the surreal idylic setting of just a random grand piano in a ruin, all that. it just kinda too something, i dunno i'm not sure how to put it or what to compare it to, sorry
>shit on dubs
fuckin got him. fuck that nerd. what a stupid bitch.
The fact that Shinji is able to immediately sync with Kaworu and the fact that Kaworu knows everything there is to know about Shinji
Plus their plugsuits and the Eva are filled with symbolism that they are the same 'being' or same person.
She is the most realistic character of the shitty NGE characters
Can anybody even compete?
Is the Rei shinji saved still part of Eva-01, or was she recovered? There's a Rei in an LCL tube in Rebuild3 that the Rei who captured Shinji from Wunder meets. The Rei who captured Shinji is very emotionless, while the Rei in the LCL tube seems to be more animated. The Rei in the tube might be the Rei Shinji saved, and the scream of the explosion which started Wunder's engines might be something else.
It might not be a red core that's exposed when Asuka stabs through to Eva-01, but rather the arm her Eva was equipped with, which has a ball joint that looks about the size of a core. So the explosion kinda sounding like Rei's screams is probably just coincidence and meant to sound like a generic Angel scream probably.
A lot of stuff happened between Rebuild2 and Rebuild3 so it doesn't seem too unlikely that Rei could have been recovered at some point.
I can easily
post bp
Fuyutsuki says himself Rei is in unit 01
When?
During the shogi scene in rebuild3 between Fuyutsuki and Shinji, he merely says Yui is a part of Unit 01.
I can bench 3pl8 hbu
No he says Rei is stuck in unit 01 with yui, rewatch it
During the shogi scene? no, he just says Yui.
By having long black hair and pale skin.
what retardation is this
Most anime girls don't have them
Asuka is literally just meant to be the "female shinji", or more importantly the postmodern female. She serves a foil to shinji as the postmodern male.
Rei is the personification of the postmodern male's desires, but she is essentially the exact opposite of Asuka and also an unrealistic, implausible person. (wow one girl has blue hair and red eyes and the other has red hair and blue eyes, real creative anno)
Asuka is the girl who is "meant" for Shinji, the girl he "deserves", while Rei is the girl that Shinji psychologically desires. Of course, in the end he ultimately rejects her after essentially becoming a real man.
It's called connecting the dots, user.
The Rebuilds are obviously a sequel to EoE.
Imagine actually believing this crap.
>muh real female!! Pinocchio!!
Are Asukafags the pinkshitfags of Evangelion fanbase?
It's uncanny how similar they are, and their fanbases too.
They fanbases have the exact same argument "hurr Rei/Hinata are made for otaku NEETs who want a Yamato Nadeshiko wife"
That makes me wonder, are Asukafags tumblr landwhales?
Based. I see you already got Reifags seething
I never got this angle. I don't self-insert as Shinji or ever will, and I still enjoy AxS. It's more that I want them to be happy than to be one of them
That's normal for most, I feel the same way. That user literally posts the same message every thread to b8 dumbasses
asuka is well written though
>worst girl vs best girl
>similar
Don't worry maybe Rei will make a comeback in 4.0!
I see a lot of femcels in this thread identify with her, so yeah. She's pretty much Eva's Sakura.
Y'know, even though Asuka has already graduated college, she never actually acts overly smart or like a genius. What's up with that?
Because you think acting pretentious is being smart
Because Asuka isn't a well written character, the went to college is just a 'mary sue' trait.
>3dpd
ew no
>Asuka is a mary sue
Brainlet statement.
I always interpreted it as a character trait elaborating on how she's not well-adjusted, not about her being especially smart. Probably cause I myself graduated early, not from being a genius, but from my parents putting me in summer school classes despite not needing them.
She's basically raised by tutors and scientists; and is socialized even worse than a home-schooled kid. She doesn't know how to get along with people her own age (expanded on with her crush on Kaji).
Shinji has similar maladjustment; but probably from neglect, rather than from too much attention from adults.
Are we ever told what degree Asuka got from college?
She lied
I doubt she lied
Yep, just like being "most popular girl in the school" and being this elite Eva pilot. Finally some one said it.
Shinji's about as close to the same as Shikinami is to Soryu.
Not in the TV show. I think it's from the manga canon. I'm always annoyed when people bring it up because it's never stated in TV/EoE proper
Sorry, I misread your post as "are we ever told Asuka graduated". I still think we're not told, unless I've managed to miss it in my two rewatches of Eva this year
Rebuild changes his background some, too, like the SDAT being left for him by Gendo and Shinji keeping it for that reason, while Classic wanted nothing to do with Gendo until after he'd been in Tokyo-3 for a while. Then 3 added that he was supposed to be brainwashed at some point after the creation of Unit 1, in NGE he's repressing half the plot and accuses himself of running away from his memory.
The sexual revolution was a mistake and has ruined the ideal on femininity
ewww sakura is pure trash from the very beginning to the end
BP?
God I love AxS. It may be my favorite (potential) relationship in all of fiction.
The Eva staff rode a fine line between giving us too much and too little, and the resulting sexual tension is just insane. The characters are also very interesting on their own, so the idea of them being together is even more tantalizing, considering it'd entail some growing up on their personal aspects that need fixing the most urgently
Stop falseflagging
But I agree
I'm not falseflagging. I don't even know what you're trying to imply
Not bad not bad at all.
What the fuck is she holding
Your speedrun personal best.
This x10 well put user.
Fan delusion.
Pastry. Creampuff.
Even though it wasn't really Kaji, she probably imagined she was getting kabe donned and slammed by Kaji in intrumentality. Sadly we will never know what she experienced.
This but with Kawoshin because it's canon and I like seeing Shinji smiling instead of miserable.
>Kaworu
>Complex
That face.
nothing because she isnt
But Asukafags and Sakurafags are similar.
Literally more complex than Rei
Asuka is literally that girl you have to metaphorically whip your dick on or else you will never get past her abysmal cuntness. Just my type.
Can't believe it didn't work on my real life tsundere.
Gentlemen, some advice, women get really jealous when you fuck all their friends except for them.
That's barely an achievement. You should be able to claim to be at least more complex than Ritsuko if you want to brag nowadays.
For 10 minutes of screentime? Yeah, it is. If anything it says a lot about Rei that with all her screentime she never amounted to much as a character. Ritsuko is a solid character with depth, in the top 5 no doubt.
She is a 3D woman in 2D form.
Reaps all the benefits without any of the downsides.
25% German, 25% Japanese and 50% American.