Spike Spencer ( ADV Films dub / Rebuild)Shinji Ikari is the main protagonist of the famous Japanese mecha anime series, Evangelion. Shinji first appears in Episode 1 at age fourteen, where he has been summoned to Tokyo-3 by. As he witnessed this event, he was subjected to considerable trauma that had lingering effects upon him. 1 Story 2 Crossover Appearances 3 Gallery 4 Trivia Around the age of three, Shinji lost his mother to the Unit-01 Contact Experiment. Shinji Ikari is the main protagonist of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
In the anime series of the same name, Shinji is a young man who was abandoned by his father Gendo, who asks him to pilot a mecha called Evangelion Unit 01 to protect the city of Tokyo-3 from Angels: creatures which threaten to destroy humanity. He is the franchise's poster boy and protagonist. Shinji Ikari ( Japanese: 碇 シンジ, Hepburn: Ikari Shinji) is a fictional character in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise created by Gainax. He often makes highly inappropriate comments to female students at his school, such as asking their. Shinji has difficulties with speaking and acting appropriately around others and is very sensitive to criticism of his behaviour. He is voiced by Megumi Ogata in Japanese, and Spike Spencer in English.Shinji Ikari ( , Ikari Shinji) is a 14 year old human high school student with Asperger's Syndrome.
Director Hideaki Anno conceived Shinji as a representation of himself, reflecting his four-year depression after the airing of his previous work, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. Use of Template:Ambox is broken, because Module. He is the son of Gendo and Yui Ikari. The main protagonist of the series (and almost all of its spinoff works), he is the Third Child ('Third Children' in the Japanese versions) and pilots the Evangelion Unit 01.
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Although his complexity was praised and generally considered realistic, he was criticized for his insecurity and weakness. Kamen Rider Driver Simulator 0.The character has had a mixed response from anime and manga publications. Game) (1) Shinji Ikari (Earth-616)/Equipment Code Geass Fanon Wiki - Kamen Rider Diend Kamen Rider Wiki Fandom. Shinji is voiced by Megumi Ogata in Japanese, and by Spike Spencer and Casey Mongillo in English. His design was created by Sadamoto. Anno used psychoanalytical theories for his characterization, including the Freudian psychosexual development model.
He wanted a "realistic and ordinary" boy, a character "that'll be hard for others to make". Merchandise based on the character, including action figures and perfumes, has been marketed.Original sketch of Shinji by Sadamoto, altered for the anime seriesNeon Genesis Evangelion character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto drew Shinji in an ordinary summer school uniform with a white shirt, making him "an average character". Shinji has placed highly in popularity polls and has been the subject of scholarly study.
Development I tried to include everything of myself in Neon Genesis Evangelion – myself, a broken man who could do nothing for four years. He tried for a look where one could see the forehead through the bangs, "the look of a boyish young girl", giving him girl's eyes. Sadamoto changed his mind, finding his original design "too wild". In one of Sadamoto's original proposals, he had long hair which would have covered his face or fluttered in the wind. At first, he tried to create a character "that would tap into the consciousness of today's anime fans". Since Shinji lacks the enthusiasm and courage of other robot-anime heroes, Sadamoto gave him a different heroic interpretation: "Rather than a reflection of a hero, sort of a refraction of a hero".
I don't know where life will take them. I don't know what will happen to Shinji, Misato or Rei. That is because within me, the story is not yet finished. I don't know what the result will be. "You can't run away", came to me, and I restarted this production .
He reflected his depression in the series, conceiving a world "drenched in a vision of pessimism" he began production "with the wish that once the production complete, the world and the heroes would change". Anno chose "It's ok to run away" as the main theme for the series, with the idea that "it's perfectly fine" to run away sometimes and that "There are things that you gain and things that you lose running away, after all". Anno inherited something from Aoki Uru — the determination not to run away from problems — and what we saw in Evangelion was maybe just a reflection of those feelings". According to Gainax co-founder Yasuhiro Takeda, ideas from Aoki Uru were borrowed for the new project, including the concept of "not running away" for Takeda the passage was "something more than just transposing one show's theme onto another. After the failure of the Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise sequel Aoki Uru, Gainax began planning a new series.
Accepting Sadamoto's proposals, Anno suggested a male protagonist after Ryū Murakami's works with two fellow female pilots by his side. He eventually suggested a boy as the main character his relationship with Asuka, who became another primary character, was modelled after Nadia's relationship with Jean, her love interest and eventual husband in the series. Sadamoto objected to a new female protagonist, saying that "a robot should be piloted by a trained person, and if that person just happens to be a girl then that is fine" however, he did not understand why a young girl "would pilot a robot".
Voice Megumi Ogata ( left) is Shinji's sole Japanese actress. That's the same as with dying". In the last episode, believing that human beings can not advance without hurting others, the director inserted the line "If something is truly hurtful it's okay to run away", avoiding suggesting that running away is always wrong, since: "If you don't pick something, then there are times when you get neither. According to Michael House, Gainax former member and translator, Anno tried to find a way to end the series with a smiling Shinji, but he realized in the process that "the characters he'd created weren't capable of whatever positive change" and reach the result that he had initially imagined, adjusting his plans. His scholastic conduct would not be seen in a positive light, but as a sign of passivity. In the original project he was more mature, robust and less introverted than the final version he should also have been portrayed as a studious boy, a "quiet A-student".
His characterization required considerable physical and psychological effort. Ogata described Shinji as one of the "most memorable" roles of her career. In the original Japanese, Shinji is voiced by Megumi Ogata in all his appearances in the original series, as well as the later films, spin-offs, video games and the new Rebuild of Evangelion film series.
Ogata's agent initially refused her participation in Eva, and she agreed due to her status as a newcomer, but Anno directly insisted with her. Dubbing the film The End of Evangelion (1997), moreover, she tried to achieve "a higher synchronization rate with the general director than the TV series". "Every time a new script arrived, every time I turned a new page I was torn apart by a new pain", she said.