Class 2A
Class 2A refers to both the schoolroom and class of students which Shinji, Asuka, and Rei are assigned to during their stay in Tokyo-3. Toji, and Kensuke are also members of the class, and Hikari is the class representative. Several other students are also present. Rei is frequently absent. Several scenes are set in the classroom and the school grounds.
The class is taught by an extremely old teacher from Nebukawa. While certain lessons appear on the board from time to time, the majority of classes appear to consist of long, boring, allocutions on the tragedies and struggles surrounding Second Impact, and the duty of the children to build a new world. While the students are all equipped with laptops, the class has a set of daily printouts which periodically need to be delivered by assigned class members to absent pupils. The class is required to clean their own room.
It is later revealed that every student in the class was a potential Evangelion pilot candidate. Several pieces of indirect evidence point to all of the pupils in the class being without mothers. Nerv having presumably, by suspect methods, imbibed their mothers' souls inside waiting Evangelion cores.
Class 2A goes on a trip to Okinawa in Episode 10, but the Eva pilots are required to remain behind on standby in case of Angel attack. Following the events of Zeruel's attack and Shinji's sojourn inside Eva-01, the pilots no longer attend school, though they continue to wear their school uniforms. Kaworu appears to wear the class uniform, but never actually attends school. In the alternate reality seen during complementation in Episode 26, Class 2A is being taught by Misato!
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