Just a quick little Rei sketch I did in my Discord server's Drawpile session:



Super rough, but I like it.

Pretty astonishing write-up. I'm typically deathly allergic to fan-theories, but this is especially compelling, and remarkably well-sourced. I'm not 100% sold on some of the biblical connections later in your wiki page, but then you seemed to concede they're mostly a fun leap, so that's all cool.

The new dub hews closer to the original by a landslide. There is plenty of room for improvement, for sure, but in terms of "which one is more like Anno's Eva?" it isn't even a contest. Agreed, and that's why I'm a little shocked some people are quite so aggressive towards the new dub. It'...