It has been some time since I've last revisited this story and I found myself getting all caught up. I noticed what you said here: It's not weird at all, as a good number of them are 100% intentional. ^_^ Others creep in of their own accord. (The things you pointed out about the courtyard scene, for...

I agree. But my point was: it's very easy to theorize what Kaji will be doing and saying to Shinji (we've always been hearing how Kaji will likely give him the rundown of what happened, maybe show him some compassion) but very little theorizing about what Kaji will be doing and saying to Misato and ...

^ Thats exactly why I think the Kaji name drop in 3.0 is supposed to tell the audience that Kaji is actually alive. I would say the percentage of him being alive is in the 95%.

Anyway, while I want Kaji to be alive for the fourth film, I hope Anno is bold enough to have killed him off, off-screen in between 2.0 and 3.0. How would that make him bold, say you? I think that not killing Kaji off would be bold since Kaji's never survived a canon Evangelion universe and a dead ...

What? I can't imagine anything I said in my posts should deserve that kind of response. I thought this was just a normal discussion; you couldn't convince me about your views so now "nothing I say should be taken seriously" and talking "is not worth the trouble"? Confuses me. I c...

If you aren't counting Fuyutsuki, Gendo, Hyuga, Naoko, and so on, maybe... All very minor characters with negligible minutes of onscreen time. In Gendo's case no one is really his equal or level, in age or rank, so it's obvious everyone will refer to him by his last name (Commander Ikari). Except f...

It's Japan; personal names are used much more sparingly than in the West. At most, we can assume he doesn't have a strong enough preference to correct those who call him "Kaji" (as per "Misato/Kaworu is fine"), but this could indicate absolute indifference as much as anything. W...

I never meant to imply that Kaji and Ritsuko enjoy a sexual or intimate relationship or have in the past, just that they enjoy teasing each other (or probably Misato, seeing how easy it is to tease Misato. Maybe Kaji and Ritsuko think it's funny to call each other cute names and see Misato's reactio...

Ritsuko might be on a first name basis with Kaji... She refers to him as "Ryo-chan" in episode #15 while conversing with Misato. I can't think of any instance where she addresses him directly, so maybe she's used that to his face, too? It is obvious Ritsuko and Kaji have a unspoke...

Them not using their first names with each other implies, to me, a kind of lingering distance in the relationship. In Kaji's final message from episode #21, he does imply that he's never told Misato he loves her, and I'm guessing that the inverse has never happened, either. If the two w...

I agree that naming an offspring after Shinji would be just plain silly. Character related reasons aside, that would mean Anno'd have two characters in the Evangelion franchise with the same name and that just won't do. Ryomi is a cute name but it doesn't look like it's an actual Jap...

"Katsuragi" and Kaji can pull a Kardashian family and name their daughter "KiKo" I think.

More than content you want to wonder why namedropping while Shinji can't hear that to be punched in the gut later, I can only assume it to be a suggestion to the audience Kaji is somewhere doing stuff.:/ Could be dead and everything to add to Misato's character which is a possibility but th...

Sicarius VI#818598 wrote:As for Kaji, I bet he doesn't even appear in 4.0, but it's never made clear if he is alive or dead.

Not something you say to refer to a dead man I think.

To go on with what Ray said, it's made apparent that they have been running in the Wunder from a Neo Nerv for a while, this is of course before they get Unit 01 and now the Wunder can defend themselves. But we don't know how long Neo Nerv has had this upperhand against Wille. To take a midd...

I'd imagine their relationship is strained at best, to outright fractured, to no longer existing. Leading a campaign against the literal END OF THE FREAKING WORLD doesn't exactly leave much time for letting yourself have human emotions or have a family. I don't quite understand this ver...

I kind of forgot but I guess they failed as surrogate parents. Idk they are pretty manipulative so what's the most exciting direction to get us tragedy? How much can they achieve before being too late at whatever? Is Kaji alive only to sacrifice himself so she can sacrifice to whatever because....

If Koji is one of Kaji's old contacts or one of the people he met in the intelligence business, then it's entirely possible that he'd know Kaji but only know of Misato. Kaji and Misato strike me as the sort of people who are very passionate together but just can't do the married cou...

So if Kaji turns out to be alive and well in Final (which I'm sure, most people are in the agreement that he is) then what is now the relationship between Misato and Kaji, 14 years later? What assumptions can we make from the little interactions they have between each other in the second...

News of a new chapter or a redux of Polyphemus makes me very excited. You left it off on such a crucial moment. I'm eagerly waiting.