Evangelion Characters

The Third Child

Considered to be the main character of the story. Shinji is the designated pilot of Evangelion Unit 01. His mother died when he was still little. He and his father, Gendo have been living separately for at least a decade.

However, a sudden message from Gendo brings Shinji to Tokyo-3 and NERV. On the same day, an Angel attacks the city. As a chosen Evangelion pilot, he fights on, though thoroughly agonized. He is referred to as the Third Child (The Third Qualifier).

He has a quiet and overachieving type of personality.

Name: Shinji Ikari Age: 14 Birthdate: June 6 Bloodtype: A

The First Child

Designated pilot of Evangelion Unit 00. Rei has been undergoing special training since the Evangelion Development Project began. In effect, she suffered serious injuries that occurred during a re-activation testing. Rei is a girl of a few words and has considerable difficulty in expressing emotion.

In later episodes, Rei is revealed as a clone of Yui Ikari (or what remained of herin the Eva experiment). The first Rei Ayanami was killed at the hands of Ritsuko's mother during the same course of events that led to the suicide of Ritsuko's mother. The second Rei was killed protecting Shinji Ikari during the attack of the 16th angel. For a brief moment, Rei was able to express her emotions.

At the final stage of the Complementation Program, she betrayed Gendou, returned to Lilith out of her own judgement and handed the future to Gendou's son -- Ikari Shinji.

Name: Rei Ayanami Age: 14 Birthdate: Unknown Bloodtype: Unknown

The Second Child

Designated pilot of Evangelion Unit 02. Like, Rei Ayanami, Asuka has undergone special training. She is three-quarters German and one-quarter Japanese. Born and raised in the United States, Asuka hates to lose at anything. Asuka graduated from university at the age of 14. She is referred to as The Second Child (The Second Qualifier).

In the later part, we find out that Asuka's outside personality was meant to mask her own true feelings about herself, her family and everyone around her. Within her, Asuka feels almost the same way as Shinji: lonely. It all happened during the suicide of her mother, which led her to grow into a character of extreme agressiveness. She could only maintain her mental balance by making outward noises about her excellence.

Trumatized during her encounter with the 15th Angel, which raped her mind. Asuka is now replaced by Kaoru Nagisa.

Name: Asuka Langley Soryu Age: 14 Birthdate: December 4 Bloodtype: O

NERV Operations Chief

Misato Katsuragi is the Evangelion pilots' main superior officer. Responsible for the operations of the whole NERV headquarters whenever the commander is not present, Misato has only one goal in life: to destroy the angels that killed her father during the Second Impact. His death caused her great mental trauma which led to a long period of agnosia (loss of speech).

Misato during the course of the series became Shinji's guardian, caretaker figure. An attractive woman with a cheerful, optimistic personality, Misato is also the only living human being to witness the Second Impact first hand and to have survived. She, in Fuyutski's terms witnessed hell.

With information provided by Kaji, Misato is also in search of the truth behind Gendo.

Name: Misato Katsuragi Age: 29 Birthdate: December 8 Bloodtype: A

`Head of Evangelion Development Project`
	A scientist belonging to the first section of the Techology Bureau of the Technology Development Department in NERV HQ. She is responsible for the E Project and is the daughter of Dr.Akagi Naoko, who built the basic system of MAGI. Usually in white coat, she consumes lots of coffee and tobacco when she works. She is also a friend of Katsuragi Misato since college years. Although like her mother she engaged in adultery with Ikari Gendou, she rebelled against him at the final stage of the Complementation Plan. As an act of taking revenge on him, she destroyed all the copies of Ayanami Rei. As a result, she was placed under solitary confinement within NERV HQ. However, since she is needed for the self defence of MAGI, she is released.
`Name: Ritsuko Akagi`	`Age: 30 Birthdate: November 21 Bloodtype: B`

The Fourth Child

A classmate and close friend of Shinji Ikari, Touji is a hot head who is very direct in expressing his feelings.

Touji's sister was hurt during Shinji's first fight inside the Evangelion, however, Touji has learned to forgive Shinji for this happening, and instead has become a close friend of Shinji. He becomes the pilot of Evangelion Unit 03 for a short period of time. Where he lost one leg and one arm when Unit 01 was forced to destroy Unit 03 because of an Angel contamination.

After the incident which resulted to the destruction to Tokyo-3, he moved away with his family to find a safer living place.

Name: Touji Suzuhara Age: 14 Birthdate: December 26

`Shinji's Friend`
	Another close friend and classmate of Shinji. Kensuke always tags along with Touji and vice-versa. A military fanatic, Kensuke always carries his camera with him where ever he goes. After the incident which resulted to the destruction to Tokyo-3, he moved away with his family to find a safer living place.
`Name: Kensuke Aida`	`Age: 14 Birthdate: September 12`

`NERV Supreme Commander`
	The commander of the secret agency NERV. His old surname was Rokubungi (PY: it means sextant). He changed his name after he married Ikari Yui, whom he knew since student years. He became the president of the Research Institue for Artificial Evolution, which was actually a front cover for the works of "E Project". After Yui died, he busied himself with "Adam Project" and "Human Instrumentality Project". He got the support from SEELE, and managed to realise things like the construction of EVA. However, his "honeymoon" with SEELE lasted only until the elimination of the last Angel. Afterwards, their differences in objectives became apparent and it developed into violent military clashes.
`Name: Gendo Ikari`	`Age: 48 Birthdate: April 29 Bloodtype: A`

NERV Assistant Commander

One of the few people who actually know what is going on within the series of Evangelion. He, along with Gendo Ikari know if human fate is even projected on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

However, unlike Gendo, Kouzou has learned to be a bit more closer to the rest of the NERV staff than Gendo. However, he has learned to control himself when telling secrets about NERV and all behind it.

Originally from the University of Tokyo, Fuyutski was the teacher of Meta-Biology. He is also the teacher of Yui Ikari and was comissioned by Gendo on Project Geihrin. An open, yet very secretive person.

Name: Kouzou Fuyutski Age: 58 Birthdate: April 9 Bloodtype: AB

NERV Special Force / SEELE Agent

Together with Asuka Langley Soryu, he comes to Japan from NERV Section Three in Germany. He is an old friend of Misato and Ritsuko. He was an old lover of Misato during their college days.

Despite his handsome appearance and deceiving smile, Ryouji has different intentions rather than serving NERV and Gendo Ikari. Kaji belonged to the Special Surveillance Department os NERV. However, he also belonged to the Department of Internal Ministry of the Government of Japan as well as an agent of SEELE.

Ryouji's connections within NERV gave him access to such material as Adam located in Terminal Dogma. Kaji was killed when NERV found out his role in the kidnapping of Kouzou Fuyutski. He left all the products of his investigation to Misato.

Name: Ryouji Kaji Age: 30 Birthdate: June 17 Bloodtype: A

`Head of SEELE and Human Instrumentality Project`
	The chairman of the Committee of Human Complementation, also the director of SEELE. His body is totally machine from backbone down. He gave instructions of direct occupation of the secret agency NERV, so as to start complementation with EVA-01.
`Name: Keel Lorenz`	`Age: -- Birthdate: -- Bloodtype: --`

Shinji's Mother

Little is known about Yui Ikari except for a few facts presented in the series. For starters, Yui Ikari was the student of Kouzou Fuyutski in the University of Tokyo. There, she also met Gendo who later became her husband.

She was a very loving mother to Shinji and a husband to Gendo. However, during one of her experiments which was witnessed by Shinji first-hand, Yui Ikari was tragically killed while trying to connect with the Evangelion. Nevertheless, her soul remained within Unit 01. It seems that she willed the accident to happen.

She then was cloned by Gendo in the form of Rei Ayanami and explains Rei's resemblance to Shinji's mother.

Name: Yui Ikari Age: 27 (1977-2004 AD)

The Fifth Child

Born on the same day as the Second Impact, little is known about Kaoru Nagisa. He suddenly appeared in Tokyo-3, sent by SEELE themselves to replace Asuka Langley Soryu who lost her ability to pilot the Evangelion Unit 02.

Within days, Kaoru was able to surpass the 2 other children in terms of synch tests and was the higest synch pilot of Evangelion (he can actually choose his sych rate by will). His sych rate was high enough that he did not require to sit inside the entry plug to control the Evangelion.

However, his true nature was revealed when he was actually the 17th Angel, the prophet of destruction. He was killed by Shinji when Shinji crushed Kaoru with his bare hands.

Name: Kaoru Nagisa Age: 14 Birthdate: September 14 Bloodtype: Blue

Misato's Pet

The other roommate of Shiji, Pen-Pen is not to be mistaken for an Antarctic penguin. Pen-Pen is the new breed of Tropical Penguins.

Pen-Pen was actually part of an experiment, but when they were ready to get rid of Pen-Pen, Misato felt sorry and took Pen-Pen home with her.

This cute little animal has been in numerous episodes already, providing some comic relief and humor whenever Misato and Asuka couldn't. Believe it or not, Pen-Pen has learned to eat curry and drink beer.

Because of the potential dangers that face Misato, Misato has in-trusted Hikari Horaki to take care of Pen-Pen.

Name: Pen-Pen Age: --

Evangelion Technical Assistant

Maya Ibuki is often seen with Dr. Ritsuko Akagi whenever Ritsuko is about to prepare any experiments relating to the Evangelions or even regarding the Magis. Her job is often in the lines of getting sych ratings of Eva pilots, as well as gathering other Eva related data.

Maya knows a lot of technical stuff within the series, however there are things that she is also kept in the dark with.

She has a lot of respect for Dr. Ritsuko Akagi. She is fastidious, but honest and sincere. She holds the rank of Second Lieutenant.

Name: Maya Ibuki Age: 23 Birthdate: July 11 Bloodtype: A

The Class Rep

Hikari Horaki is also known as the Class Rep in Shinji's class. Hardworking and the almost too-typical class reps presented in any series.

Hikari is also a close friend of Asuka Langely when Asuka arrived from Germany from NERV Branch 3.

However, in Volume 9 of the Evangelion series, we learn too, that Hikari Horaki sees something more in Touji Suzuhara (a crush or something).

After the incident which resulted to the destruction to Tokyo-3, he moved away with his family to find a safer living place.

Name: Hikari Horaki Age: 14 Birthdate: February 18

`NERV Assistant Strategist`
	Hyuga is the assistant strategist of NERV. Whenever the opponent strikes (Angels, etc.) Misato and Hyuga are often the ones to discuss strategy to maximize the use of the Evangelions without doing much harm to the pilots. Because of being kept in the dark too long, Makoto Hyuga begins to search the truth behind NERV and the Evangelions. With the help of Kaji and Misato, the three discover things that should be kept secret.
`Name: Makoto Hyuga`	`Age: 23 Birthdate: February 13 Bloodtype: B`

`NERV Central Military Operations`
	Often seen with Hyuga and Maya in the front part of the terminals in the Geo-Front, Aoba is often quiet and not talks about anything much. Aoba is the operator of the Central Military Operation Room at NERV headquarters. However, one thing is for certain: Aoba likes guitars, that he brings his guitar to work (but keeps it when he is on duty), but still manages to practice a few chords with an imaginary guitar. His rank is Lieutenant.
`Name: Shigeru Aoba`	`Age: 23 Birthdate: May 5 Bloodtype: A`

Kyouko Zeppelin Sohryu

The real mother of Asuka Langley Sohryu. She fell into mental breakdown in an accident during an experiment. Afterwards, she became a person who lived in her own world, so much so that she committed suicide. Her soul was used as the core of EVA-02.

Naoko Akagi

The creator of the MAGI supercomputer system, who uploaded her own personality into the Personality Transplant OS, Dr. Akagi Naoko committed suicide in 2010 after killing the first Rei Ayanami. Her job was completed by her daughter, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi.