UrsusArctos: Off-model is hilariously off by the end of this sequence. This is straight out of a romantic comedy, but trying to argue that Shinji and Asuka are unambiguously a couple (as opposed to merely shipping them together as a personal preference) on the basis of this scene is to forget just how broken, violent and dysfunctional their relationship becomes towards the end. More on that when we get to it.
