POP UP PARADE Rei Ayanami: Long Hair Ver. (Rebuild of Evangelion)

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Hayashibara stated she had to do "countless takes" for Rei's short lines and find the right nuance the staff wanted. A giant white and naked Rei emerges into open space during the process, holding Shinji's Eva-01, and, when Shinji rejects Instrumentality, this figure decomposes.

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Her image is often flanked by that of the Moon, a celestial body associated with motherhood, pallor, passivity, and femininity. They described Rei as a girl who has both the human genes of Yui Ikari and the genes of the first Angel Adam[ sic]; Tsurumaki also associated her condition to a Devilman, a hybrid presented in the manga Devilman by Go Nagai. In a scene from the last episode of the animated series, an alternate reality is presented with a different story than the previous episodes; Rei is presented as a girl who has just moved into the class of Asuka and Shinji, with a cheerful, distracted and irascible personality. She added, "Rei's beauty comes from the truth that she has feelings", and "when I found the warmth below the coldness in her words, I synchronized with Rei for the first time".Anno also took inspiration from Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic concept of Oedipus complex for her role.

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With its wide variety of products including apparel, bags, interior items, bicycles, and more, RADIO EVA continues to seek out new ways of expressing Evangelion through goods. He also added: "At that point something emerges of my mistrust or fear of communication with others".This moe element, which gained wide popularity only after Rei's success, can be found in numerous subsequent female characters, including Eva in Black Cat, Ai Enma in Hell Girl, and Yuki Nagato in Haruhi Suzumiya. In February 1996, Animedia magazine ranked her smile scene from the sixth episode among the most memorable anime moments of the month.

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According to one estimate, plastic models before Evangelion sold about three thousand units, but Rei's figures managed to reach ten times that amount, and for Galbraith "the series overlapped with a boom in figurines of anime characters and the spread of the Internet, making otaku consumption and community more conspicuous". Rei is voiced by Megumi Hayashibara in Japanese, and by Amanda Winn-Lee, Brina Palencia and Ryan Bartley in English. The band Kinniku Shōjo Tai's theme song "Doko e demo ikeru kitte" and its line " hotai de masshiro na shojo" ( 包帯で真っ白な少女, lit. Rei Ayanami is a fictional character from the Japanese media franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion created by Gainax.They also compared the show's two other protagonists, Shinji and Asuka, with Susanoo and Ama-no-Uzume, respectively; Shinji, like Susanoo, has clumsily social manners and unsociable behavior, while Asuka, like Uzume, is ebullient and flaunts her body.