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== Trivia Tropes ==

** Rei's voice actresses all invoke this. Her Japanese VA [[Megumi Hayashibara]] is famous for her roles as [[The Slayers|Lina Inverse]] and [[Ranma ½|the female Ranma]]. Her original English VA [[Amanda Winn-Lee]] is well-known for her roles as [[Burn Up|Rio Kinezono]] and [[Read or Die|Miss Deep]]. Finally, her English VA for the ''Rebuild of Evangelion'' series, [[Brina Palencia]], made her mark in anime as [[Genesis of Aquarion|Silvia de Alicia]] and [[Romeo X Juliet|Juliet Capulet]].

** For Mari's Japanese VA, Maaya Sakamoto's not always put in an [[Ax Crazy]] role, and considering that Maaya's debut role is [[Vision of Escaflowne|Hitomi Kanzaki]], it is jarring enough.

** There's also the manga. We have several [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] moments, Kaworu killing a kitten, Shinji saying emphatically "Guys don't like guys!", Shinji and Kaworu's relationship downgraded to an unrequited [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]], Kaworu calling Rei a fool and saying "I figured you'd be a heftier girl.", Shinji and Kaworu in the ladies' room with Asuka... Yeah.

* [[Running the Asylum]]: ''[[Ikari Shinji Raising Project]]'', like most of the show's spinoff products, is quite obviously done by a [[Promoted Fanboy]], is entirely powered by [[Mythology Gag]] and [[Fan Service]], and is incredibly [[Doujinshi]]-esque. The same could be said about the ''Angelic Days'' manga. Not that we complain; [[Cash Cow Franchise|it's Eva characters, so we'll buy it]].

** This trope also extended to the American side of the Pacific with ADV Films. Commentary for the English dub will often make reference to it being made on budget that consisted of a metaphorical shoestring and paperclip, involved renting out space to do recordings with substandard equipment, and had a good portion of the cast played by members of the production team besides the voice actors, among other things. They weren't exactly in danger of going out of business, but it's still pretty amazing that the dub was as good as it was all things considered.

* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]:

** Plus, the series is set in a fictional vision of 2015. Notice the lack of smartphones.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The [http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Proposal proposal] provides various examples.

* On another note, the interconnecting theme to the pilots here is how they have some usage of [[wikipedia:Momentum|the equation for momentum]] of light used in [[Visual Pun|Chemistry(!)]] and other sciences. Applying [[Fridge Logic]] based on the above given information, we have (in SI Units): Makinami (representing momentum, in kg*m/s) = Ayanami (representing frequency, in "1/s") x Shikinami (representing wavelength, in "m") x Shinji (representing mass, in "kg"; remember his name literally means ''anchor'').

 

 

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