Evangelion Character Designs

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Meant to be a full page listing the design features of each of the characters, ranging from their physical height to their clothing.

Shinji Ikari

Shinji's character design features him being unusually short for his age at only four feet and nine inches, given that both his parents were certainly tall by Japanese standards, with Yui being five and a half feet tall and Gendo being six feet tall. As a fourteen year old, he should realistically have been between 5'4" and 5'8" depending on when he reached his pubescent growth spurt.

He is usually seen in his school uniform, which consists of a white shirt, black trousers and blue sneakers with a blue undershirt, and this appears to be largely his "default" throughout the series, even when he runs away from home. He does wear other clothes, like the infamous "dance costume" consisting of a leotard with thigh-length leggings and a light blue top. He is also seen wearing a T-shirt on a few occasions, such as the

Asuka Langley Soryu

Asuka stands at four feet ten and a half inches, which, although the tallest of the children, is still rather short for a thirteen year old.

Asuka is seen in a formal dress when she goes out for a blind date in Episode 15, consisting of a blouse, matching skirt and jacket and a bow, fairly similar to what the young Ritsuko Akagi is seen wearing.

Rei Ayanami

Rei, at four feet and seven inches, is the shortest of the Eva pilots. Although her height is probably due to her artificial growth, it still seems anomalous in comparison to her "mother", Yui Ikari, who stood at a solid five and a half feet in height.

Rei is seen in her school uniform, school swimwear, plugsuit and a hospital gown, giving her the least clothing choices among all the Evangelion characters. The only time she is seen wearing something distinctly different is with a sweater in the Alternative Universe sequence in Episode 26.

Rei's light blue hair and red eyes were a design decision made to make her stand out more from the other characters, and are acceptable compared to the far more realistic hair and eye colors given most other characters, given Rei's not-entirely-human nature. This is never commented upon by any of the other characters in the series.

Misato Katsuragi

Misato stands at 5'4" as an adult and is of normal height.

Her hair has a noticeable shade of purple to it.

Gendo Ikari

Gendo Ikari at his youngest is seen wearing a black turtleneck, a green jacket and blue trousers (or jeans). In the photograph that shows him in the background of the UN official during the coverup, he is seen in a dark business suit and tie.

He is later seen with a red turtleneck and black trousers, which are paired off either with a lab coat (Gehirn era), a UN inspector's uniform (with Fuyutsuki in the Arctic post-2I) or later with his unzipped uniform jacket, a character design element taken from Commander Straker in the British TV series UFO. Chronicle illustrations reveal that Gendo is very thin and small-waisted, and wears suspenders under his uniform jacket while at Nerv.

Ritsuko Akagi

Ritsuko Akagi is about 5'5"

Ritsuko's hair is naturally a shade of brown, but she dyes it blond, ostensibly to set her apart from her mother in appearance. That Ritsuko dyes her hair while the other characters have their natural hair colors is a suggestion that the other characters with unnatural hair colors (apart from Rei or Kaworu) have merely been assigned different color shades to make them more distinct.

Although Ritusko is often seen in her white lab coat with the blue zip-up shirt underneath it, she has a very broad wardrobe when seen in Episode 21.