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Postby baldur » Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:42 pm

I don't know if this has been observed before, or if there's even anything interesting about the pattern, but a thought just came to me.

Most of Evangelion's main cast can be placed in groups of three.

Shinji, Asuka, Rei.
Misato, Kaji, Ritsuko.
Gendo, Fuyutsuki, Yui.
Toji, Kensuke, Hikari.
Maya, Hyuga, Aoba.

You could also group the three dead mothers (Yui, Naoko, Kyoko) and instead group Gendo and Fuyutsuki with Keel, but I think it makes for a weaker fit.

I thought it was a neat detail, though probably just coincidental.

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Postby Blockio » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:00 pm

It's not a wrong or coincidential observation by any stretch! The answer to that lies simply in the way out minds work; groups of three are the dynamics that we can keep track of the best. Two can be a bit onesided awful pun, I do not apologize, while four and higher can be a bit hard to follow all at once, so when writing it's generally the most intuitive to have sets of three.
Those sets can and often do have overlapping members, for a very typical example the protagonist might be in a love triangle with two characters and have a rivalry with two different ones; you can have a lot of fun with character dynamics and story structures if you play around with that a bit
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Postby FelipeFritschF » Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:57 pm

Yeah, lots of people like that analysis. I'm not sure if there has ever been official comment by staff, but that is also often made by assigning each one of them an Ego, Superego and Id role, or sometimes anima, animus and shadow (not strictly correct, I know).


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