Neon Genesis Evangelion/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** ''Katsuragi'' was also one of Japan's very last operational aircraft carriers, surviving mostly through delayed construction. All the other ships lending their names to characters, including the first ''Langley'' were either sunk in battle or never completed.

** At an almost esoteric level, the ''Akagi'' was also the name of a Russo-Japanese War-era ''Maya''-class gunboat. [[Les Yay|How quaint.]]

** Even more [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realize that ''Shikinami'' was only mentioned in ''Rebuild''. Remember that the ''Ayanami'' is a ''Destroyer''-class battleship. Exactly what happened during the original series?

** When the kanji for ''nami'' (波) is placed behind ''maki'' (真希), this will literally mean "wave winding", which can reference "momentum" and/or "velocity". In turn, this relates over to the speed of light mentioned earlier, in which light is found to have both mass and velocity in the form of an electron/photon. For comparison to this "speed of light", her personality (as it is on the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion/Characters|Characters page]]) is most often described as a hard-hitter who normally presses [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]] on the battlefield.

** The second variant is when the kanji for ''unusual''(!) (which is 希) is removed from the above. This new term (波真, which is now ''nami shin'') now has an entirely new meaning: ''True Wave''. This would be best represented by how, near the ending of ''Rebuild 2.0'', Makinami unleashes an entirely new form of the EVA. She explains this as a pilot "rids itself of its humanity", and she uses code word to unlock this new form: ''The Beast''. Note that the Angels are, as per NERV's research, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|supposed to bear a 99.89 percent similarity to humanity]]. That research, along with the above information, makes this "Beast" form not a coincidence.

* Frame by frame on Episode 22, during the [[Mind Rape]] sequence, we get some...[[Incredibly Lame Pun|creepy analysis]] of what the Angel is doing. In order (apply [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] throughout):

** [[wikipedia:Gnoll|Gnoll]] is a cross between a gnome and a troll. "Groll" (German for "resentment") is also accurate.

** The kanji for "Baka!".

** A series of German lines that, when combined, mention that Asuka was actually saddened when her mother died.