Yesterday I was having lunch and I overheard a girl talking about anime with her companions... When she mentioned Evangelion I started to pay attention too, dare I say, to see how much she understood the series (yeah, I put myself on top of a Eva high ground! Judge if you want
) Thing is, it was all going well: Evan-jelly-on, the robots that defend the humanity against entities named Angels and that can only be piloted by motherless children. I'll take she was trying to be spoiler-free by saying that instead of specifying that the pilot's mother's soul was supposed to be in the Eva.
But then she hit the discordant note: when describing the pilots she said -literally and without possibility of ambiguity- that Rei is Shinji's sister... I know Evangelion is not by any means straightforward, but unlike the rather obscure fact that Rei's soul was Lilith's, we never receive info that suggests Rei is nothing other than a clone of Yui (or at least 90% Yui and a bit of Lilith).
Thing is, this is not the first time I've heard this misconception: some years ago I heard another person telling the exact same thing when explaining Eva.
Have you heard this before? What do you suppose causes it?
