Mari Makinami Illustrious
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"The Eva series? It's been completed?" |
| Mari Illustrious Makinami | |
| Mari | |
| 真希波・マリ・イラストリアス | |
| Age | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Birthday | Unknown |
| Seiyū | Maaya Sakamoto[1] |
Mari Illustrious Makinami (真希波・マリ・イラストリアス) is the new character to be introduced in Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance. She is a brunette with glasses and long pigtails who seems to be in the same age group as the Eva pilots.
Profile
Essentially no information has been provided about Mari thus far beyond her name and images of her. She is shown for a mere two cuts in the preview for 2.0 at the end of the first Rebuild movie. The "keywords" poster for 2.0 includes an exchange of dialogue between her and Shinji.
Mari has been speculated to be the pilot for Eva-05, and the characters page of the official Evangelion 2.0 website gives evidence to this. An image of the helmeted Mari (wearing an 05 plugsuit) is shown next to her name, and she's placed under the category of "Pilots" among Shinji, Asuka, Rei, and Kaworu. [2]. Earlier, circumstantial evidence was provided by 2.0's first theatrical trailer, which shows a girl in a "05" plugsuit whose head is almost completely covered by a helmet-like interface device (the same image on the Eva 2.0 website). An illustration of Mari in her plugsuit confirmed that the pilot seen was indeed Mari before her listing on the characters page.[3]
Name
Mari is named after two World War II warships, the Japanese destroyer Makinami (巻波, "overflowing waves") and the British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. The two names may be intended to, as in Asuka's case, represent a mixed heritage: here, British and Japanese (at minimum). Strictly speaking, neither "Illustrious" or "Makinami" (written as 真希波, "noble true wave") are real surnames[4], although this may be nothing more than a creative liberty.
Her first name was originally unveiled in the Nintendo DS Petite Eva@School game.[5]. Later, one of the official movie posters included a "teaser" for her full name: showing the "Mari" part, and substituting the remaining characters with asterisks ("*** Mari *******")[6]. Mari's entire name was at last revealed in a revised version of the poster included with the first issue of Eva Extra[7]. Before her actual name surfaced, Mari was known exclusively among fans as "Glasses Girl" (among Japanese fans, めがねのこ, megane no ko, meaning the same thing).
Notes
- Mari's glasses and long, dark hair has invited much comparison with the character Mayumi Yamagishi from the Sega Saturn game Neon Genesis Evangelion: Second Impression, although the two characters have distinctly different appearances.
References
- ↑ Anime News Network: Maaya Sakamoto to Play New Character in Eva: 2.0 Film. Retrieved 4/19/2009.
- ↑ The characters page for Evangelion 2.0 (Japanese)
- ↑ Illustration of Mari in Plugsuit
- ↑ Google searches for "真希波" only yield results related to Mari's name, indicating that "Makinami" written this way is probably an original invention for this character.
- ↑ DS game screen shots
- ↑ Website version of promotional poster.
- ↑ Promotional poster with revised terms list.
| Characters |
| Main characters: Shinji Ikari | Rei Ayanami | Asuka Langley Soryu |
| Nerv staff: Misato Katsuragi | Gendo Ikari | Ritsuko Akagi | Kozo Fuyutsuki | Ryoji Kaji | Maya Ibuki | Makoto Hyuga | Shigeru Aoba |
| Classmates: Toji Suzuhara | Kensuke Aida | Hikari Horaki |
| Other characters: Kaworu Nagisa | Yui Ikari | Naoko Akagi | Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu | Dr. Katsuragi | Mr. Langley | Keel Lorenz | Pen Pen |
| Rebuild of Evangelion: Asuka Shikinami Langley | Mari Makinami Illustrious | Sakura Suzuhara | Ryoji Kaji (Jr) |
| Miscellaneous: Minor Characters | Minor Characters (Rebuild) | Extracanonical Characters |
| Theory and Analysis: Name Origins (Warships) | Designs | Relationships | Profiles |
| Resources: 2015: The Last Year of Ryohji Kaji |
