I became the winning heroine!

I had a crush on a girl whose design, voice, and personality really resonated with me since I was young, and for some reason, I still have feelings for her, so it still hurts.

It’s not that it became popular and turned things around, so to speak.

Well, of course, Mari is popular in her own right, but that doesn’t mean her position has changed.

Isn’t it a character designed according to the original plan?

I love Mari the most.

It’s probably taken from Mari in a parody of Raideen against Asuka Rei.

If you’re saying that they intended to make her the heroine from the beginning, that might be the case.

The character was created because it became impossible for either Rei or Asuka to make Shinji happy in the first place!

The character that was destined to become the winning heroine from the moment of her birth.

It’s not good to make assumptions on your own.

Since the character was created by Tsurumaki, the direction for their personality is that they don’t lie and are inherently positive.

A character that is unlike Eva.

It seems that Mari getting together with Shinji was already decided during the Atami training camp before the production of “Rebuild.”

The first proposer is Hiroshi Enokido.

>>13

Well, I can’t believe that the director himself would say that.

I guess they made their decision after watching the situation.

It’s not like she became the main heroine just because she was popular.

I mean, is it okay to treat her as the main heroine?

If you’re going to stick it on, you should have made it more noticeable.

The character is completely a product of Tsurumaki’s personal interests and is also a parody character of Haruko from FLCL, so it’s like a reward for Director Tsurumaki.

Director Anno’s hobby is just like Asuka.

Director Tsurumaki has always had to put up with Anno’s whims.

With that sense of trust, I’ve also been entrusted with directing G-Axis, and we’re also saying that this is a work of gratitude towards Director Tsurumaki.

Well, I don’t like it because I don’t agree with getting together with Mari.

>>17

In other words, Asuka and Mari being a buddy pair was Anno and Tsuruma’s pseudo TS yuri…?

I apologize to the fans, but…

I don’t have any memory of it being that explosively popular.

>>18

It’s like I ended up not really understanding what kind of character it was after all.

I wouldn’t say it was unpopular until then, but…

It feels like she became popular due to the demand for heroines after being treated as the main heroine.

In the end, who was this person?

In terms of actual age, they are from the Gendo generation.

But Director Tsurumaki is famous for being an Asuka fan…

>>22

However, it’s Asuka’s faction that doesn’t want to get attached to Shinji, as she is the possessive type.

She’s still a girl I don’t really understand well.

But I like you.

Having followed the Eva series since the generation that experienced it directly, I still feel a lingering confusion after it ended, with Shinji ending up with Mari and Asuka with Kensuke.

I understand in my head that this is the most well-rounded way to settle things, but…

>>25

Shinji and Asuka have the worst compatibility.

Since it was politely written in Shin’s farm therapy part that Shinji x Rei lacks agency and falls apart…

To be honest, I still only have the impression that I suddenly became a heroine.

Thank you for suddenly coming in and saving Shinji-kun, as no existing character would have been able to do it.

The stress from being called “Gendou-kun” is at Mach speed.

Actually, the theory that Shinji Ikari is Hideaki Anno and Mari is Moyoko Anno still exists, doesn’t it?

>>29

If we were to match the author to real people, all Evangelion characters except Mari would be Hideaki Anno, and Mari would be Kazuyuki Morosawa.

>>43

I think this is where Director Anno struggled, thinking that he couldn’t end Evangelion with the old characters.

The character I created was abandoned halfway through, but a character made by someone else, Tsurumaki, broke through the barriers I couldn’t overcome.

>>29

I really like the theory of Kazuhiko Mari Island.

A girl who is too convenient for Shinji-kun.

It seems that his origins are like a yokai, but since Shinji himself has become like a yokai, I guess it’s fine.

Consider your age.

I think it would be fine if Shinji ends up with someone after Q.

I’ve accepted that it would be fine if it’s a different Shinji from the one in the old series and up to The End of Evangelion.

>>33

I’m really dragged down!

She has big breasts and is a great woman, right?

It seemed like there was always something hidden behind it, but they were just continuing to fight for humanity.

If there was no new play or anything, Asuka would have ended up with me, and that’s why it turned out like it did in the play.

This time felt like it was a serendipitous encounter.

Honestly, I could only think of her as a Mary Sue.

Even after watching up to the end, I still don’t really understand what this person is plotting or who they are.

>>39

I’m a pilot for Eva, and I told Dr. Fuyutsuki that I don’t want to involve humanity, but isn’t that everything?

I wanted to protect people.

It’s a story that seems like a genius of cloning engineering reinstalled himself as a clone to watch over Gendo, Yui, and the fate of humanity.

To be honest, I feel that the demand for Eva itself has significantly declined because the work of Eva has come to an end, rather than just Mari’s popularity.

Since her appearance after the new play, Mari has definitely had less character development compared to other characters.

What we can glimpse is almost only the activities at NERV and Wunder, and it ends with Shinji just sticking together.

It feels like I ended up not fully grasping what kind of character it was.

Because my breasts are big, it’s all good for every woman.

It’s true that it was popular because it ranked first in the Newtype popularity poll at the time of its release.

I thought it was a rough character made for pachinko…

It feels like a character from FLCL has crashed into Eva.