Asuka: "So what the heck are we supposed to do against THAT?"

Shinji: "Throw common sense to the curb and do the impossible!"

I've gotta watch Gurren Lagann one of these days. Then again, that's what I've been saying for something like two years so who knows if I'll ever get to it.

Nice update Stryp, let's see if the working together and doing great things works against the big bad.
Where's that pic from, by the way? It looks too much like the official art to be fan-made, but I don't remember ever seeing it. I also thought Asuka was just a tiny bit taller than Shinji in the show?
 
Where's that pic from, by the way? It looks too much like the official art to be fan-made, but I don't remember ever seeing it. I also thought Asuka was just a tiny bit taller than Shinji in the show?
It's from one of the PlayStation games, I believe, the Asuka route, where Shinji can actually take her out on a date.

They're actually supposed to be the exact same height but he is always slumping or otherwise stooping, so he looks shorter. However in a lot of the fanart he is drawn slightly taller and hey, he probably will be in the end given how tall his parents were.
 
I've gotta watch Gurren Lagann one of these days. Then again, that's what I've been saying for something like two years so who knows if I'll ever get to it.

Nice update Stryp, let's see if the working together and doing great things works against the big bad.
Where's that pic from, by the way? It looks too much like the official art to be fan-made, but I don't remember ever seeing it. I also thought Asuka was just a tiny bit taller than Shinji in the show?
You need to watch that anime, then go watch the movie.
 
It's from one of the PlayStation games, I believe, the Asuka route, where Shinji can actually take her out on a date.

Oh yeah, those. I've always wished a fan translation effort would start for the games, they are probably not stellar but I still would have liked to play them; I remember playing the N64 Evangelion game a long, long time ago. It was... questionable, in its quality. The PS2 ones seemed to be much better overall.
 
Character Heights
Hmm, looks like Asuka is supposed to be a hair taller, thought I think that still might be due to the way Shinji always slumps and she's always standing up straight, likely to feel taller/more adult, or she just got her growth spurt before Shinji did, like most girls.


Shinji: Height approx. 4' 9"
Rei: Height approx. 4' 7"
Asuka: Height approx. 4' 10"
Gendou: Height approx. 5' 7-8"
Misato: Height approx. 5' 3"
Sweet FSM, I'd tower over everyone in this picture. I've got a good 3" on Gendo... And I could look down at the top of Misato's head. Heck, @LilithPrime is taller than Gendo! They're so tiny!
 
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I've got an inch on Gendo, but yeah, remember folks they are 14 y/o Japanese (or half Japanese) kids.
I have to remind myself or my mind is blown. I was 6'4" when I was 13, so thinking of people not being 5' as teenagers is weird. I know Gendo wouldn't be tall by my standards, he is Japanese, but they drew him so tall and imposing I thought he was at least 6'. Finding out he's 5'8" is odd.
 
Frankly I think the reason he's willing to stick to children or remotes is he knows if he had to command a group of trained military adults, by the end of the first week he would be found drowned in his own shower.

Plus the fact that adults cannot effectively drive the evas. :(

As for Gendo...the guy is clearly like, "Getting Yui back is all that matters........except being extremely petty and a total asshole just because I can get away with it (probably...I'm sure none of it will come to bite me in the ass eventually)."
He doesn't expect that humanity will be around long enough to see retaliation.

And, IIRC, it wasn't the ass where he got bit. :p
 
He doesn't expect that humanity will be around long enough to see retaliation.
Yeah, thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gendo knows humanity is on a countdown clock with at best months left.
And, IIRC, it wasn't the ass where he got bit. :p
It's never a good idea to get your wife mad. It's even less a good idea when she's a 100m tall weapon of mass destruction and finds out you've been neglecting her son. :p
 
Yeah, thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gendo knows humanity is on a countdown clock with at best months left.
Well he does rely on pilots being broken enough to not be able to murderize any backup Seele may have and Rei being obedient. He seems to so focused on main goal and sure that all is going as planned that he doesn't even check from time to time whether it's true.
I wonder how Zeruel fight will go, both Shinji and Asuka going 400% synch and then sharing S2 engine in horrifying display of mutual affection, maybe offering some to Rei. Because that's what Gendo need, all his Evas being impossible to operate with Dummy Plug and not dependent on fixing internal damage and power.
 
both Shinji and Asuka going 400% synch
That would be tricky. With Hikari and her mother (presumably) already in there, that Core is already crowded enough! Cram in two more people, and someone's going to fall out. And if you let Shinji and Asuka melt into blissful tang together, good luck ever getting them to separate again!
 
That would be tricky. With Hikari and her mother (presumably) already in there, that Core is already crowded enough! Cram in two more people, and someone's going to fall out. And if you let Shinji and Asuka melt into blissful tang together, good luck ever getting them to separate again!
I meant in their respective evas.
 
Shinji: Height approx. 4' 9"
Rei: Height approx. 4' 7"
Asuka: Height approx. 4' 10"
Gendou: Height approx. 5' 7-8"
Misato: Height approx. 5' 3"
Sweet FSM, I'd tower over everyone in this picture. I've got a good 3" on Gendo... And I could look down at the top of Misato's head. Heck, @LilithPrime is taller than Gendo! They're so tiny!
You know, I remember seeing someone doing scaling before which had Gendo at 6', which is fucking gigantic for a Japanese man.

I'm 6' :D
 
Ritsuko realizes all the work she needs to do getting *three* pilots out of their Evas before the next angel arrives. She proceeds to die from an aneurysm.
Asuka or Shinji will be out quickly, they don't want to stay separated... maybe take few days to talk with moms but thats it.
Gendo will be one with aneurysm when he learns that Yui is still in EVA because she don't want to come back.
 
Shinji: Height approx. 4' 9"
Rei: Height approx. 4' 7"
Asuka: Height approx. 4' 10"
Gendou: Height approx. 5' 7-8"
Misato: Height approx. 5' 3"

Yeah! I got four inches on Gendo. Although I never never would have guessed the rest of the cast was really that short. American height paradigms at work people. US average for men is 5'9" and for women it's 5'4". Japanese averages are 5'6" for men and 5'1" for women. So in context Gendo and Misato are actually rather tall.

I have to remind myself or my mind is blown. I was 6'4" when I was 13, so thinking of people not being 5' as teenagers is weird. I know Gendo wouldn't be tall by my standards, he is Japanese, but they drew him so tall and imposing I thought he was at least 6'. Finding out he's 5'8" is odd.

IIRC isn't it a thing were people born post-Second Impact are normally shorter then their counterparts from pre-Impact? But yeah, it still is odd to see they're that short.
 
IIRC isn't it a thing were people born post-Second Impact are normally shorter then their counterparts from pre-Impact?
I'd certainly expect them to be! Height is significantly correlated with access to high-quality and plentiful nutrition in childhood, and people born post-2I will, um, not have done well on that front.

Also the whole "nobody born since 2I is an adult yet" thing ;)
 
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