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When Rei Ayanami first appeared, the self-esteem of the Japanese population was at an all-time low, as the economic bubble had just burst. All data about Rei's past are unknown or erased; her age, 14 in 2015, [1] [2] is the only known fact. She has maintained a high ranking in every popularity poll of the series and has also appeared in polls to decide the most popular anime characters in Japan. Before her, anime characters were divided between sociable girls, with expensive clothes and cosmetics, technological gadgets and often engaged in prostitution activities named kogal, and otaku, isolated characters, with rooms full of "computer software" and magazines. In one of the first scenes of the Evangelion anime, Shinji sees a ghost of Rei Ayanami in a deserted city near Tokyo-3.

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During Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2012 English model Jourdan Dunn wore a dress similar to the character's plugsuit; Gainax only learned about the outfit from the Internet and was perplexed by the situation. During the clash with the Angel Armisael, Rei becomes increasingly aware of her feelings of sadness and affection towards Shinji, [80] towards whom she demonstrates a certain romantic interest. Which brings us full circle to this figure of that illustration sculpted by the incredible Saori Rai! Ritsuko Akagi reveals she was born in Laboratory for Artificial Evolution's third branch, a place located under lake Ashino and Hakone city.According to the Japanese site Animentalism, the track "Ray" by rock band Luna Sea, published in the single In Silence and composed by Sugizo, could be a tribute to Rei Ayanami.

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Rei was also voted the most popular female anime character from the 1990s in a Newtype poll in March 2010. Her image is often flanked by that of the Moon, a celestial body associated with motherhood, pallor, passivity, and femininity. In 2020, Honda used Rei and other characters from the series for a number of commercials, which aired on the occasion of a collaboration between Evangelion and Honda Civic. A column in the September 2007 issue of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said, on the occasion of Evangelion 1. He also regarded Ruriko Tsukishima from Shizuku as being directly influenced by Rei, and Ruri Hoshino of Martian Successor Nadesico as a combination of both.

For Kazuya Tsurumaki, Shinji feels a sexual and incestuous desire for her, while Kentaro Takekuma described her as an "eternal virgin". According to Yūichirō Oguro, editor of some of the contents of the Japanese home video editions of Evangelion, the Rei's ghost Shinji sees on the avenue is "the existence that gazes upon man", and the scene symbolizes that "Shinji is protected by his mother since the beginning of the series". Japanese cultural critic Hiroki Azuma described her as "an extremely impressive character", praising the performance of Megumi Hayashibara and its psychological realism, since "Rei's solitude is grounded in a completely tactile substantiality which gives us extremely realistic images of the discommunication that children of the present face". The same band produced a song named "Fumimi no kodomo" ( 福耳の子供), in which a female monologue is audible, and Sadamoto tried to portray a girl with a similar voice.

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Its concept is “ Evangelion that blends into everyday life,” and to date it spawned a line of fashionable clothes that we all can wear IRL. Not feeling particularly close to her, the director for a long time forgot to explore Rei's personality, ignoring it or giving it marginal space.In 2014 she moves to the first municipal middle school of the new city of Tokyo-3, and Gendo becomes her legal guardian. Another source of inspiration was The Snow Goose, a novella written by Paul Gallico; the story describes a painting portraying the protagonist, a thin and pale girl in an empty room, and the artist tried to create a character similar to her. During the feature film, it is also suggested that Gendō and Fuyutsuki plan to bring Shinji and Rei together.

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com site, while appreciating some interesting revelations about her past and still considering her "by far the most interesting character", was critical that her character had not been "explored as much as she should have been".TV Asahi later published the results of polls on anime's greatest scenes; all the Evangelion scenes which ranked in the lists were related to the character. Anno required a "gloomy", [7] "cool character with short hair", so Sadamoto designed Rei originally as a brunette with dark eyes; however, it was necessary to distinguish her from the other female protagonist Asuka Langley Soryu, so he designed her with eye and hair colors opposite to Asuka's.