EvangelionFan: I noticed the name 'Pimpom' was also used on the doorbell in Rebuild - is it actually a brand name in Japan, or is it just made up for the show?
thewayneiac: It sounds like an onomatopoeia.
Kendrix: It's cheap, it doesn't work, and Rei doesn't seem to mind. All those little things telling you of her astonishing lack of discomfort with what others would discribe as unbearable living arangents. "She only has the bare minimim of what she needs to have", as Anno puts it. "Conditioned to accept horror" being big keywords here.
People like Asuka, Ritsuko or her haters might be creeped out by the apparent way she doesn't seem to want more, while Shinji and her fans find her inability to understand or express these very existent desires (see ep 23) woobietastic.
