POP UP PARADE Rei Ayanami: Long Hair Ver. (Rebuild of Evangelion)

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Release Date 2022/08 Specifications Painted plastic non-scale articulated figure with stand included. Carlo Santos noticed that Rei's personality is the same as in the TV series, and "those who hated the original Evangelion for its highly dysfunctional characters still won't find anything to like in this version", while Justin Sevakis praised her response to Shinji's kindness in Evangelion 2. theatrical release, that there were over one million dedicated Rei fans in Japan and that, "This bandaged Goddess is an icon of Japanese anime.

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According to Hayashibara, since Rei "doesn't know emotion, there's no difference between what she says and feels". With its wide variety of products including apparel, bags, interior items, bicycles, and more, RADIO EVA continues to seek out new ways of expressing Evangelion through goods.

Wayneright in The Big O, [274] Anthy Himemiya in Revolutionary Girl Utena, [138] Chise in Saikano, [275] Yuzuriha Inori in Guilty Crown, [276] Miyu in My-HiME, [277] Ai in Zaion: I Wish You Were Here, [278] Diya in Butterfly Soup, [279] Yashiro Kasumi in Muv-Luv [280] and the female cyborgs in Gunslinger Girl. Although the two pilots occasionally converse with each other, they cannot communicate on an emotional level and do not understand their feelings. Anno also took inspiration from Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic concept of Oedipus complex for her role. Rei, according to Azuma, transcends the two stereotypes; he likened her room to Satyam, scientific laboratories of Aum Shinrikyō. You Can (Not) Advance (2009), her character develops and her relationship with Shinji is shown much more openly than in the original series.

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As with other Evangelion characters, he transposed aspects of his life into her character, including the choice to not eat meat and maintain a vegetarian diet.

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". A column in the September 2007 issue of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said, on the occasion of Evangelion 1. Critics regarded Rei and her success as the beginning of the moe phenomenon, [205] with the creation of characters according to definite stereotyped features easily recognizable and consumable by the Japanese otaku audience.