Neon Genesis Evangelion Characters

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion, List of Neon Genesis Evangelion Characters, Evangelion, Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Soryu, Misato Katsuragi, Kaworu Nagisa, Gendo Ikari, Yui Ikari, Ritsuko Akagi, Toji Suzuhara, Ryoji Kaji, Keel Lorentz. Excerpt: Asuka Langley Soryu Asuka Langley Soryu ( , S ry Asuka Rangur ? , IPA: ) is a 14-year old fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise . She is designated as the Second Child ("Second Children" in the original Japanese versions) of the Evangelion Project and pilots the Evangelion Unit 02 . Her surname is romanized as Soryu in the English manga and Sohryu in the English version of the TV series, the English version of the anime movie and on Gainax's website. Character history Born and raised in Germany, Asuka is shown as being of both German and Japanese descent, as from her Japanese name and European appearance (her nationality is referred to as being technically American ). Her mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu , is a scientist of Gehirn's German branch of the Evangelion Project and, when Asuka is four years old, participates in a contact experiment with Unit 02 (similar to the experiment performed by Yui Ikari with Unit 01 ). Though she physically survives the test, Kyoko emerges mentally unstable, believing a doll she cares for to be an infant Asuka while only referring to her actual daughter as "that girl over there" and even going so far as to attempt to strangle Asuka so that she could "die with me!" (this is implied in the anime, while explicitly shown in Sadamoto's manga). After being institutionalized, Kyoko commits suicide by hanging herself; Asuka finding her body when running to tell her that she has been selected to be an Eva pilot. Her American father quickly remarries Kyoko's