Why do people like rei ayanami

A silver-haired automaton created using technology from another world. She's the personal maid of the supervisor of Team Leviathan. She lacks emotions, but shows an extreme amount of loyalty and devotion for her master.

Aika from the Western novel Escapist Dream is pretty much dressed up to be like this. Weirdly enough, she acts so much like Rei Ayanami that Jim suspects that she's not human, which proved to be true since she's just an AI waifu created by Kaichou.

Tabitha from The Familiar of Zero. Bobbed light blue hair, very fair skin, quiet and deeply stoic demeanor, and speaks in strangely truncated, sentences with barely enough to get her point across, often single-word ones. Lelei La Lalena from Gate. A year-old genius sorceress with short light blue hair and eyes. She's stoic and quiet, but a nice girl. She also forms part of the Unwanted Harem of the main character. Yuki Nagato from Haruhi Suzumiya , to the point where her name is a pun on Rei's—Rei can be read as "ice", Yuki as "snow", and both Nagato and Ayanami were Imperial Japanese naval warships.

Curiously, Yuki is described in the novels as having black hair since in the Haruhi universe people have normal hair colors but in the anime and even in the novels' art, it appears of a purplish blue similar to Rei's but much more pale.

Her characterization, however, has some variance: She is a Love Interest only briefly, if that though she is one in the spin-off where she's a normal human Shrinking Violet ; she neither is a Mysterious Waif nor does she have a Dark and Troubled Past if anything, she becomes more interesting the more we know her ; and the becoming more emotional part is downplayed, in that her affect remains as flat as ever, but she seems to undergo significant Character Development and emotional development under the surface despite the fact she states her affect will always be flat, she nevertheless seems to become more expressive and animate in her own way as the series progresses.

Hazuki from Haruka Nogizaka's Secret , though she doesn't have any dramatic plotline related to it, she is just weird. Pale skin, short silver hair, golden eyes, petite, is not human, appears cold and soft-spoken and eventually warms up to the main character.

In Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere , there's an amnesiac, emotionless automaton with silver hair and blue eyes known as Ps. It's later revealed that she's Horizon Ariadust, a human girl who died in an accident years ago.

After her death, her father put her soul in an android body and used her emotions to create Weapons of Mass Destruction that will give her the power to save the world from an apocalypse. Horizon also serves as the love interest of the main character Toori Aoi. Infinite Stratos : Laura Bodewig. A white haired, a red eyed and yellow eyed, genetically-engineered Artificial Human raised as a Super Soldier , and educated with just enough social skills to be able to function as a soldier, which left her with no idea of how to act like a normal girl and socialize normally.

Initially, she hates the main character, but she later falls in love with him and chooses him as her "wife". She's also another example of this mixed in with Shana Clone as she's got the long hair, short stature and temper. Kanzashi Sarashiki. Red eyes, short aquamarine hair, shy and quiet personality, eventually warms up to the main character and falls in love with him.

Eucliwood Hellscythe from Is This a Zombie? Light hair, pale skin, mysterious abilities and origins and a deeply quiet and stoic demeanor that makes her come across as emotionless, but still has a hidden caring side. Nozomi from Mayoi Neko Overrun! A mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes. She normally tends to be indifferent and emotionless, and also seems to be a little airheaded. Short white hair, red eyes, pale skin, overly serious and quiet, a little weird, has trouble expressing her feelings for her love interest.

Shiro from No Game No Life. A young girl with light blue hair and red eyes. She's a Hikikomori Neet , but she's actually a genius with an almost supernatural intelligence. She also only shows emotion around her older brother Sora. Mashiro from The Pet Girl of Sakurasou is an odd girl, with virtually No Social Skills , doesn't understand the concept of emotions too well and has very light blond hair, a really fair skin and reddish eyes.

Although, her behaviour is usually taken to be the effect of an Ambiguous Disorder. A stoic, cold young girl with white hair, pale skin, blue eyes and an eyepatch. She was chosen as a Brave after she was betrayed by the Kyouma who raised her, her own mother among them. At first, she doesn't want to trust anyone ever again, but Adlet gains her trust and she falls in love with him.

Hecate from Shakugan no Shana. A quiet and emotionless character. She has short hair, fair skin, a Dark and Troubled Past , and an emotionally-distant demeanor that defrosts thanks to the main character. Elena Arshavina from World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman is a stoic, silver-haired girl with a bobcut set up as one of the protagonist's love interests. She's also a child soldier that was raised and mentally abused to be effective on the field.

Live Action TV. Naki of Kamen Rider Zero-One is the first non-binary example of the trope note due to their actor, Satsuki Nakayama, is in fact asexual; expressing their desire not to be defined as either male or female.

Naki is introduced as a rather aloof and emotionless Humagear who initially worked for Gai Amatsu before the events of the second arc; who eventually gets shot for questioning his methods. She is a Half-Human Hybrid , acts like an Emo Teen with a very moody disposition , has bobbed dark bluish hair and blue eyes , is quite pale and was created by her evil father to become an Apocalypse Maiden.

Video Games. She has no memory of who she is, though somehow knows detailed military information. Eventually, the heroes learn who she is: one of the cloned children of Dr. So far, there's six of them. That's already more than half of the number of Rei expies used to create the page image. Maybe the day where we can make the page image using Rei expies from Atlus only will come.

Gender flipped with Serph from Digital Devil Saga : an initially completely emotionless pale-skinned gray-haired almost totally silent male lead who's a digital clone of a sociopath scientist who nearly destroyed the entire world , and is completely devoted to female love-interest Sera. Devil Survivor 's Amane Kuzuryu, a blue haired, blue eyed Emotionless Girl that serves as the host to both an angel and a demon. In her route , she reveals the reason for her behavior and wishes that she had been able to lead a more normal life.

Persona : In Persona 3 , we have two! First is the Protagonist himself, who possesses blue hair and eyes that are either blue or silverish, and also appears emotionless but gradually becomes more human as he forms bonds. His characterization in the first animated movie adaption mirrors Rei's in the first Rebuild movie, complete with a When She Smiles moment!

Second is Aigis, with her robotic nature and exotic looks, but isn't quite as emotionless so much as initially single-minded. Her role only settles in when Ryoji, the Kaworu Expy, enters the story and she immediately becomes suspicious of him. Persona 4 has Naoto Shirogane, who has blue-bobbed hair and silver or blue eyes, and usually has a calm personality with a mysterious vibe to boot. When first introduced, Naoto acts more aloof and apathetic towards the others, but warms up to them after joining their group.

Devil Survivor 2 has Miyako. She just appeared in Record Breaker, but it's no doubt that Miyako is a Rei expy too. She has short hair and eyes in color shade similar to Rei's hair. Okay, initially she is not that emotionless, but she does eventually become more emotional , later becomes one of the protagonists' main love interest, isn't exactly human. Rei is the soul vessel for Lilith and Yui clone, when Miyako is the mix of Fourth Triangulum and Yamato clone, later fight against her own kin other than human.

Also, she is noticeably less polite and wary of Alcor, the Kaworu expy in said game. Blazblue The Murakumo Units, a series of Magitek cyborgs. There are three playable Murakumos and each of them have some of Rei's traits. As a whole, Murakumos are young women with light hair and skin, draw power from an Eldritch Location , were created by an abusive Mad Scientist father, are varying flavors of The Woobie and are clones of Ragna's the protagonist long lost sister.

Lambda is curious, innocent, developing emotions, has red eyes and is forced into battle by her boss and sort of mother figure Kokonoe because there's just no other choice. Noel, aka Mu, didn't know she was a Murakumo for years and developed a proper but meek personality, initially serving the local State Sec to support her family but eventually breaking away from that to help save the world.

Nu has red eyes, silvery blue hair and pale skin and seems to be an Ill Girl , and switches from being utterly emotionless to the definition of Yandere whenever Ragna shows up. Their genetic template, Saya, was pretty similar to Noel before becoming the Imperator and being made a vessel for Izanami, the Goddess of Death.

When Ragna meets an adult Saya for the first time, her appearance and personality took a huge change. She is absolutely devoid of emotion, ruthless, nihilistic and hateful towards the world. Her golden locks have become purple, and her previously jade eyes are now crimson.

All of this can be attributed to her being possessed by Izanami, and Saya's consciousness apparently struggles for control, resulting in the Imperator showing some sympathy towards Ragna and despising Terumi. Code Vein : Io. She not only has the pale skin, bobcut, and is a stoic Mysterious Waif Artificial Human among many clones to boot, but over the course of the story, Io develops feelings for the beyond obeying the orders of the Successors.

Her fate in the three endings also reference The End of Evangelion as well: In To Eternity her body is petrified , in Heirs she disintegrates and crumbles , and in Dwellers in the Dark she absorbs legendary relics to form a sacred tree and Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence , though she maintains a presence to the protagonist.

For bonus points, she shares an English voice actress with Rei from the Rebuild of Evangelion continuity as well. Eva from Crush Crush has green hair and gold eyes, but otherwise is a very clear expy of Rei as a mecha pilot you save from dying who's an emotionless, Spock-like Mysterious Waif until you gradually teach her how to smile. She even mentions wearing bandages to a party at one point and says that Cassie , another girl in the game, reminds her of one of her colleagues. Among these games, Granblue gave her an extended backstory, a Meaningful Rename Orchid, as she was named Orchis in Bahamut and is tied to the main plot.

She is blue-haired, red-eyed, terse, monotone speaking, very mysterious and displaying little emotion to those around her. She also turns into a Golem, whose limbs are attached using ball joints, just like a doll. Lastly, she is very loyal to the Black Knight, but gradually opens up to her other friends as the story progresses.

Amara Minakushi from De:vadasy , a franchise already strongly inspired by Eva , is a stoic, green-haired artificial human girl who strikes a mysterious bond with the male protagonist. While they don't fit every trope, they do fit quite a few- Dierdre is Sigurd's wife, and Julia acts as a bait and switch love interest for Seliph. They have silvery hair, and oddly light colored eyes.

They have very stoic demeanors due to their respective childhood situations of how they were raised. While they are human, they are the only one's with Naga holy blood, which makes them unique among the other humans. She looks the part and has the Sugar-and-Ice Personality down pat. Though she lacks the short hair, it IS blue, and she has red eyes, an unusual color even for FE standards, as well as pale skin, and is pretty frail both in cutscenes and in combat.

She's also notably shy and reserved but can open up to all 3 of her support options one of which is a possible love interest , and hides a dark secret; she's a dragon born from a human father. Their mother, Aenir, was killed, and Nergal, seeking to reunite with his children after the war was over, began experimenting with unscrupulous dark magic that warped his mind and made him forget his original purpose.

Centuries later, in an ironic twist of fate, he manages to call his children back through the Gate, but they don't remember him, and he doesn't remember he had children in the first place, only wanting to use the siblings to further his own goals of obtaining power. Worst of all, he actually laughs when Eliwood accidentally kills her. Hard to spot early in the game, but she fits the trope as her backstory gets revealed.

Physically she's got light purple hair in a bobcut, is extremely shy, jumpy and reserved , and even confesses to being an orphan and suffering a lot of abuse in her childhood. She shows an Undying Loyalty towards her caretaker, Eremiya, for giving her a home, even though she's fully aware of being raised to become a Tyke-Bomb to kill Marth. While she's fully human, over the story she's constantly compared to a puppet, and she sees herself as such. Her time with the 7th Platoon and especially her developing feelings for the Player Character cause her to become conflicted, to the point she prefers to die to atone for her sins until she's talked out of it.

Vanilla H from Galaxy Angel , a red-eyed, pale-skinned young girl who controls nanomachines by suppressing her emotions. Ramlethal Valentine from Guilty Gear , albeit a Dark-Skinned Blonde case note Though her dark skin could be the result of originating from the Backyard , but otherwise plays this to a T.

Emotionless though she warms up later, petite, platinum blonde hair, not human, and was created by St. Maximus Ariels. Bronya Zaychik from Honkai Impact 3rd was initially a child soldier trained as a Cold Sniper , before being picked up in an orphanage by a woman named Cocolia, where she could finally live a semblance of a normal life and make friends.

However, said orphanage also used children that had special properties in dangerous experiments; after Bronya's friend Seele became trapped in another dimension because of one such experiment, Bronya proposed herself to take part in it.

As the experiment failed, she largely lost the ability to feel emotions, as well as the use of her legs. This is notably marked by her becoming a Third-Person Person ; as a playable character, her speech is always formal and technical. Her silver hair doubles as a Phenotype Stereotype , since she was born in Siberia.

The cherry on the cake? In version 4. She's a quiet, stoic year-old with exceptional combat capabilities who is eventually revealed to be a former Jaeger from the Zephyr Jaeger Corps and adoptive daughter of the corps's boss, The Jaeger King.

She's an ancient, alien, Magitek program that copied Nanoha's appearance, with a few changes such as her hair being cropped short and her eyes being an unnaturally light color of blue.

As the Material of Wisdom, she has little to no emotions and is completely logical. However, she starts gaining some emotions after she met and lost to Nanoha, even gaining her own personal desire to improve herself in the hopes of one day beating Nanoha in a Lighthearted Rematch. The eroge game Makai Tenshi Djibril : The New Angelic Gaia Interface is a wholesale expy of Rei Ayanami, from the fact she's got blue hair and pale features, she's also a artificial angel, of the holy kind, whose whole purpose is to go into battle and get maimed, and she does in fact shrug off a lost arm at least once.

Also, the mark of a transformed Devil Angel when working for Heaven was, for the first three games, that their hair took on a pale color, as close to light blue as possible. Pandora from Mega Man ZX. A Emotionless , green-haired , red-eyed Reploid. She speaks in a stoic monotone, seems to suffer from low self-esteem like Shinji, and lots of emphasis is placed on her loyalty to Adam much like Rei's loyalty to Gendo and her Dark and Troubled Past , both of which are the cause of most of her emotional breakdowns throughout the game such emotional breakdowns were a staple of Evangelion.

A flashback scene even gives her a bobbed haircut similar to Rei's. Melphonshina from Phantasy Star Online 2 more or less falls straight into this trope, minus being a Love Interest. Her Dark and Troubled Past being that she was envious of the relationship between Gettemhult and his partner, and wished to be in her place.

After she's used by Gettemhult to release Dark Falz Elder , she gets seriously injured. I feel really bad for Rei and I think that she is a great character, but she shouldn't stand so extremely high above the rest, because it hurts all the other popular characters' popularity I like Rei, don't worry!!! I don't think anyone can truly absolutely hate her, OR Asuka for that matter I wrote a 5 page essay on why I like Asuka, and I think that'll make a lot of people understand her better, but this is about Rei!

Why Jazlove likes Rei: i like her because she resembles me in a lot of ways; i almost always do what people say without complaining but when i get sick of it i react in a violent way. Why hedg77 likes Rei: I don't like it when Rei turns everyone into goo at the end and it is funny when eva 1 bursts out of her eye. In the series she's cool but in the movies she's retarted.

When I saw Rei I thought she was boring and annoying and all this stuff, she just ticked me off, she was quiet and since Asuka was my fave, and she hated Rei, I decided that why not I hate Rei too? And so began the saga of me not liking Rei. I mean Rei I was awesome! J So I like Rei. Not because she has blue hair or because other people do, but because she was a great character. I just did this one partly because I am neutral towards her and also there are no comments of neutralism.

It's not true that she is either likable or hatable, I'm not on either side. But people who hate her, you have to understand that she's just like a new born baby that she hasn't learned to experience life much and she was created, not born, a motherless child which is the reason she hadn't manifested any feelings.

In this version, at least, she is genuinely smiling at Shinji. She attempts to host a dinner party for Shinji and his Father and is shown to work very hard while preparing the food, she is seen having multiple bandaged knife cuts on her fingers. Asuka takes her position as the test pilot for the Evangelion Unit Rebuild and Rei calls her to thank her. When Unit goes berserk, Shinji is shown forcing his way into the angel and pulling her out and the two embrace each other.

At the end of the film, they are both trapped within Unit In the preview at the end of Evangelion 2. The children appear to have pink eyes as opposed to the purple of the older one.

The Rei that appears in the first two movies does not return in Evangelion 3. This Rei is very different from Rei Ayanami in the two previous movies, as well as the original. She is mostly seen wearing a black plugsuit for Mark. Her hair is slightly longer, and her facial expression looks more inexpressive.

The only thing she does is to carry out orders from Gendo Ikari. Her emotionless personality annoys Asuka , and devastates Shinji, causing the latter to suffer a mental breakdown after Fuyutsuki reveals the origin of Rei and the relationship with his mother. Rei starts feeling doubtful about her condition and wonders about the original Rei when she fails to regain control of the puppeted Mark.

She expresses curiosity at her daughter Tsubame Suzuhara , and exhibits an almost child-like behaviour of sheer wonder. Rei settles as a farmer and goes to school, befriending the children of the village, as she starts to learn to socialize and finds her own individuality, distinct from the earlier Rei, and finds purpose in her life.

Asuka maintains antipathy at her when she asks about Shinji's whereabouts. She goes to meet him, but he remains despondent and guilty over not saving the original Rei.

Rei keeps trying to find her own individuality, and tries on new clothes, and wants a proper name for herself. At Shinji's suggestions, she settles on simply "Ayanami". However, Rei cannot maintain her form without constant exposure to LCL, and decomposes in front of Shinji, further motivating his determination to take responsibility. After the death of Rei Ayanami tentative name , Gendo and Fuyutsuki have a conversation.

Rei apologizes that she was not able to make it so that he wouldn't have to get into a Eva again, but Shinji tells her it's alright and that he'll take care of the rest. During Instrumentality, there is a flashback to Gendo and Yui Ikari Rebuild talking to each other, and reflecting on how, if they had a daughter, she'd be named Rei. Rei talks with Shinji and accepts living in a world without Evas, as a new place for her to belong, she thanks him, shakes hands with him, Shinji initiates the Neon Genesis.

In the ending, Rei and Kaworu are seen as adults with a similar age of that of Shinji's and Mari's staring to each other. Evangelion Explore.

Evangelion: 1. Manual of Style Forum Recent blog posts Staff. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Rei Ayanami. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. In the storyboards and the recording script, the child is denoted as Rei 1, the one in the plug suit as Rei 2, and the one in the school uniform as Rei 3, and they appear to correspond to the three generations of Rei Ayanamis. The one who said she existed because Gendo needed her is Rei 2, who knew Gendo for the longest.

Considering how she is injured and wrapped up in bandages, when he later meets her in NERV Headquarters, the natural assumption would be to think that this was a phantom vision.

The girl that appeared for just one cut in this scene may be the Rei Ayanami who is "the existence that gazes upon man. According to the premise, on the chest in the room are medical books on such topics as psychology and genetics. Rei apparently reads these intently, and they are marked with tags. But she's obviously not a machine; she's a human being, flesh and blood. When she cried, it meant the waters of the pool were coming out at last.

The struggle to draw your feelings forth, the reconciliation between your surface and your death - that, I believe, is where we truly become alive, truly become human begins. What is the reason for this difference? The manga is less spectacular than the anime, there's less action, so I preferred to focus on the relationship between Shinji and his mother, which is the core of my work.

The anime, on the other hand, precisely because it's more spectacular, has another point of view. Of course, the relationship between me and my mother is different laughs. A manga that influenced me a lot was Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu, by Kazuo Umezuo, which talks about the relationship between mother and son. Any mother in the world wants the best for her child, and my manga is about that. I had an image of her even before I started Evangelion.

Like a girl with a dark past. I thought it'll be interesting to have a girl in bandages. And maybe she'll have the antibacterial smell like hospitals. If I had known her when I was 14, I would have hesitated to get close to her.

She's cute, but her world's the farthest away from mine. But I end up admiring her. In the anime, I designed her as kind of an idol figure. It's a question I'm often asked, the question of inspiration, but as we said before there is no single answer The main inspiration came to me by hearing a song, and the voice singing it. From that voice, I envisioned the character. I took the song to the director and said "I see her like this, Rei, a girl who has this voice".

You take her, give her shaggy, bobbed, wolf-like hair, and you've got Rei. Really, I just played with her a bit-the way the eyes are drawn, the basic character is the same. Her character was locked in as translucent, like a shadow or the air. The kind of girl you can't touch. The girl you long for, but there is nothing about her that you can grab a hold onto Q: The same type of stance that Kensuke and Toji feel about Rei? The first time you see Rei, she is all bandaged up. When I heard that song, an image popped into my mind, and I drew Rei according to that.

I thought, "I'd like to draw a girl like that. I wanted to draw her even before I heard of Shinji. There were two things that went into the decision to make her eyes red: one is the fact that she didn't have enough outstanding features, and the second is from a buisness standpoint, the makers of the game wanted her differentiated from the other characters, but personnally I think it turned out to have a great effect.

She's so quiet you can only tell her character from her gaze and her facial expressions, so she leaves the impression of having a strong stare. A: For the past few works that I have done, I have worked with a number of directors including Tsurumaki and Anno and I would often be asked to be involved.

The only information Anno told him about Rei was her age, blood type and that she was "gloomy". Haruko was inspired by JPOP music. A band Sadamoto used to listen to supposedly inspired Rei from Evangelion. In this episode, it is revealed that Rei dislikes meat, but Nadia: Secret of Blue Water was also a vegetarian. Director Anno himself is also famous for not eating meat. Incidentally, Rei orders a garlic ramen without the pork at a ramen shop, but the script has Rei ordering seaweed ramen.

It is a rare example of pure adlibbing on the part of a voice actress in this show. Z: Both possessing the genetic code of Angels. That was something of a lack of capability on my part. And, on the topic of substitutions, can we think of Rei Ayanami as being a person like your mother? Anno : No. Well, Rei is probably [the character] closest to my deep psyche. Takekuma : Huh?

Is that right? Anno : Yeah. I have no emotional attachment to her.