List of Neon Genesis Evangelion characters
This article is part of the Neon Genesis Evangelion group of articles.
Rei Ayanami
Japanese Seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara
English Voice Actor: Amanda Winn Lee
First Child and pilot of Eva Unit 0. 14 year old socially-withdrawn girl. She turns out to be a clone, and is widely theorised to be a clone of Yui Ikari or a hybrid of Yui Ikari and the angel Lilith. Another popular theory is that she is a clone of Yui Ikari, but containing the soul of Lilith. Three clones of Rei play a significant part in the series, and are referred to as Rei I, II and III.
Asuka Langley Soryu
Japanese Seiyuu: Yuko Miyamura
English Voice Actor: Tiffany Grant
Second Child, pilots Eva unit 2. 14 year old girl from Germany, but with an American father and a half German, half Japanese mother. Obsessed with being the best. Has a crush on Kaji Ryoji. Her mother was the head of NERV Germany's Evangelion project.
Shinji Ikari
Japanese Seiyuu: Megumi Ogata
English Voice Actor: Spike Spencer
Third Child. Pilot of Eva Unit 1. 14 year old socially-inept boy who hates his father, Gendo Ikari. His mother is Yui Ikari. See also Shinji Ikari
Toji Suzuhara
Japanese Seiyuu: Tomokazu Seki
English Voice Actor: Brett Weaver (one of several)
Fourth Child. 14 years old. Seen as a bully towards the beginning, but later revealed to be sweet and very caring for his sister. In the same day he becomes a pilot, his Evangelion, Unit 03 is taken over by Bardial (13th Angel) and destroyed. He is killed (in the English translation, severely injured) in this. Only chose to pilot the Evangelion to get his sister better hospital care.
Misato Katsuragi
Japanese Seiyuu: Kotono Mitsuishi
English Voice Actor: Allison Keith
29 year old operation officer at NERV and roomate to Shinji. Chose to have Shinji move in with her rather than him live alone. She has a scar on her chest from the trauma she suffered during the Second Impact. Had been mute and non-social for a long time after that event.
Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu
Japanese Seiyuu: Maria Kawamura
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Asuka's mother, head of the German Evangelion Project, developed Unit 02, the first production type (of which three were produced, 02-German, 03-American, 04-American). She was mentally unstable, which was why her husband left her, and committed suicide. Her soul is entrapped in Eva Unit 02.
Dr. Katsuragi
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Misato's father, leader of the Katsuragi Expedition to Antarctica, killed during the Second Impact, saving 14 year old Misato (placing her in what looks like an Entry Plug).
Yui Ikari
Japanese Seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara
English Voice Actor: Amanda Winn Lee (Death and Rebirth)
Shinji's mother. Proclaimed dead in 2004, after she disappeared during an experiment known as Project E (the project to resurrect the original Adam). There was no body to be recovered so her grave contains nothing.
Gendou Ikari
Japanese Seiyuu: Fumihiko Tachiki
English Voice Actor: Tristan MacAvery
Shinji's father and commander of NERV. 48 years old. Formerly known as Gendou Rokubungi, he took his wife's surname when he married her.
Kaji Ryoji
Japanese Seiyuu: Kouichi Yamadera
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Officially employed as special inspector at NERV, but secretly works for SEELE investigating NERV's true intentions. Once seriously dated Misato, but they had long broken up. After he came to NERV, they slowly got back together out of desperation despite Misato's hatred for him.
Kensuke Aida
Japanese Seiyuu: Tetsuya Iwanaga
English Voice Actor: Kurt Stoll
Best friend of Toji Suzuhara. 14 year old military geek.
Hikari Horaki
Japanese Seiyuu: Junko Iwao
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14-year old girl. A friend of Asuka, she is in love with Toji Suzuhara, and is the class president.
Ritsuko Akagi
Japanese Seiyuu: Yuriko Yamaguchi
English Voice Actor: Sue Ulu
NERV head technician. 30 years old. Close associate to Misato Katsuragi. Had a fling with Gendou Ikari. Bleaches her hair blond.
Naoko Akagi
Japanese Seiyuu: Mika Doi
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Ritsuko's mother. Creator of MAGI computer system and former GEHIRN head technician. The MAGI computer is built on three opposing principles from the life of it's creator: Naoko as a scientist (Melchior), Naoko as a mother (Balthasar), and Naoko as a woman (Casper). These three aspects are in constant conflict, and together they delegate to form the MAGI's answer. It is speculated that her soul in contained within the triple computer system. After Rei I called her an "old hag", and said that her lover, the widowed Gendo Ikari, called her that, Naoko murdered Rei I and then killed herself, at the GeoFront control station, atop the primary MAGI system.
Maya Ibuki
Japanese Seiyuu: Miki Nagasawa
English Voice Actor: Kendra Benham
Technician at Nerv. 24 year old woman. Very Good with computers. Works very closely with Ritsuko, and is possibly in love with her. In her completion sequence, Ritsuko-Rei-Lilith types "I love you" into the laptop keyboard.
Kouzou Fuyutsuki
Japanese Seiyuu: Motomu Kiyakawa
English Voice Actor: Guil Lunde
Once a professor at Kyoto University, and taught Yui Ikari before her death. Vice-commander at NERV, essentially Gendou's right-hand man. 58 years old. Possibly in love with Yui Ikari.
Makoto Hyuga
Japanese Seiyuu: Hiro Yuuki
English Voice Actor: Brian Granveldt
First Lieutenant at NERV and a computer technician. Also secretly loves Misato. In his completion sequence, he is in extasy over Misato-Rei-Lilith.
Shigeru Aoba
Japanese Seiyuu: Takehito Koyasu
English Voice Actor: Jason Lee
Lieutanant. Plays Guitar. Nihilist. In his completion sequence, he cowers in fright from Rei-Lilith, because he does not want completion.
Pen Pen
Japanese Seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara
English Voice Actor:
This is a non-speaking role
Misato's pet warm water penguin. He lives in a custom refrigerator, and takes warm baths, and likes going to hot springs.
Kaworu Nagisa
Japanese Seiyuu: Akira Ishida
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Fifth Child, replacement pilot for Unit 02 sent by SEELE to NERV, after Unit 02's pilot's Synchronization Ratio falls below usability. He is also 14 years old (as are all pilots and candidates). See 17th Angel. Some Romaji purists insist that his name should be rendered "Kaoru" and not "Kaworu". However, Gainax refers to him as "Kaworu", and this name can be clearly seen on display screens in the series and on the mass-production Dummy Plugs in End of Evangelion.