Kozo Fuyutsuki
| Kozo Fuyutsuki | |
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| 冬月 コウゾウ | |
| Rank / Title | Vice Commander of Nerv |
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| Affiliation(s) | Nerv, Gehirn |
| National Heritage | Japanese |
| Age | 60 |
| Birthday | 04/09/1956 |
| Seiyū | Motomu Kiyokawa |
| Voice Actor | (English): Guil Lunde (TV), Michael Ross (films), Kent Williams (Rebuild) (Italian): Oliviero Dinelli (French): Mathieu Rivolier (German): Hans-Werner Bussinger |
Vice Commander Kozo Fuyutsuki is second-in-command of Nerv HQ and Gendo Ikari's right hand man. As Vice Commander of Nerv, Fuyutsuki frequently takes command of situations at the base whenever Gendo is away on business. Gendo also tends to unload the more mundane work, such as town council meetings, paperwork, and the like, onto Fuyutsuki.
Character Summary
Tokyo University and Second Impact
Main article: Episode 21
Profile
Prior to Second Impact, Fuyutsuki was a professor of metaphysical biology at Kyoto University. While there, he met the young bioengineer student Yui Ikari and became her "sensei". The exact nature of their academic relationship is unknown, although they were close and spent time together off campus. Fuyutsuki was smitten with "Yui-kun" from the start, although he kept this entirely to himself.
Not long after, a man named Gendo Rokubungi, who was being held at the Kyoto Prefecture Police Department after a bar fight, asked to be released into Fuyutsuki's custody. He complied, although he found Rokubungi distasteful. Yui later introduced Gendo to Fuyutsuki formerly, and then, during a hike, revealed that she was actually dating him -- news that left her sensei visibly disconcerted despite efforts to conceal his own reaction.
This was a strong suggestion that Fuytusuki was attracted to Yui Ikari, as well as being impressed with her work. At the very least, Fuytusuki appeared to share some of Yui’s admiration for humanity. In Episode 12, during a philosophical debate with Gendo at the South Pole Fuytusuki stated that he’d "prefer a world where people live, no matter how stained with sin". Also, he has said that he agrees with Yui’s ideas more than Seele’s.
But on a personal level, Fuytusuki was said to want little to do with people in his earlier life (a colleague in Episode 21 noted that "You excel at your work, but you don't take socializing seriously and that's not good"), and there is no sign of whether or not that has changed.
Fuyutsuki survived Second Impact, but his career as a university professor came to an end. In 2002, he "set up shop" at the ruins of Toyohashi (in Aichi Prefecture, east of Kyoto) as an unlicensed doctor to compensate for the shortage being experienced everywhere. Fuyutsuki was selected to be part of the United Nations' official investigatory expedition to the South Pole (on the basis on an anonymous recommendation by Gendo). Determined to discover the truth about Second Impact, Fuyutsuki relentlessly dug for information on Gendo, Second Impact, the Katsuragi Expedition, and the mysterious organization "Seele" to which Gendo and Yui were somehow attached.
He then confronted Gendo at the Artificial Evolution Laboratory with his findings. Gendo, unmoved by Fuyutsuki's threats of taking the information public, took him down into the Geofront and the under-construction facilities. Upon showing him the prototype Evangelion unit, he invited Fuyutsuki to "join us in creating a new genesis for Mankind".
Fuyutsuki subsequently joined Gehirn, though it would appear that he had little choice in the matter. He confides in Yui that he was under threat of erasure by Seele for knowing too much, and "working for the enemy" would provide a means to avoid that fate. (21')
During the present of the series, Fuyutsuki is nearly always seen in the company of Gendo Ikari, but it is clear that their alliance is one of convenience and business. The two men do achieve some unity in that both are interested in seeing Yui again, however. It is unclear whether Gendo or Yui knew of Fuyutsuki’s attraction to her.
At Nerv, Fuyutsuki projects considerably less harsh of a personality than Gendo, confirmed when, after the disaster that was the initial attack on Israfel, Ritsuko Akagi told Misato Katsuragi that if Gendo hadn’t been elsewhere and the (still very angry) Fuytusuki wasn’t in full charge of the operation, Misato would have been fired already.
In Rebuild
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"Making something... Nurturing something is really great. You can see and learn so many things from the process." |
Fuyutsuki appears in both Evangelion 1.0 and Evangelion 2.0 in more or less the same capacity as in the series. However, Fuyutsuki seems somewhat less distant from Gendo and more involved in Gendo's work; he appears to be Gendo's confidante and co-plotter, rather than giving the impression of merely following Gendo's plans. As of the second movie his background and history have not been revealed.
In Other Media
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"Making something... Nurturing something is really great. You can see and learn so many things from the process." |
In Sadamoto's Manga
Notes
- "Fuyutsuki" literally means "Winter Moon", and was the name of a Akitsuki-class destroyer from World War II. The Destroyer Fuyutsuki rescued the survivors of the great battleship Yamato after it was destroyed by American aircraft.
- Fuyutsuki's rank has been alternatively translated as "Vice Commander", "Deputy Commander", or "Sub-Commander", etc. The original Japanese word is fuku (as in fukushirei), and all of these alternate translations mean pretty much the same thing. Evapedia consistently uses "Vice Commander" for convenience.
| 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 |
