Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.news2me.com!fs01-sjc1.usenetserver.com!ps01-sjc1!news.webusenet.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!news2.calgary.shaw.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.76.47.248 Message-ID: <3D56D6A3.4020906@interchange.ubc.ca> From: Richard Liang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion Subject: Re: First Children [was: first child?] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:29:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.71.223.147 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: news2.calgary.shaw.ca 1029101373 24.71.223.147 (Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:29:33 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:29:33 MDT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:1792 Michael Wignall wrote: >"nickay420" wrote in message >news:ulbjti6qrbiq4f@corp.supernews.com... > > >>if shinji is the third child, rei the second, and asuka >> the fourth.. then who was the first? >> >> > >Actually don't listen to anyone in this thread at all. >They are all wrong so far. > >Rei is the First Children. >Asuka is the Second Children. >Shinji is the Third Children. >Touji is the Fourth Children. >Kaoru is the Fifth Children. > >There is no such thing as a "Child" title designating >a pilot in the original Japanese version of Evangelion. >They use the English word "Children" and they use it >on purpose (ie it is not a mistake). > > Is there an official explanation to this? I had heard that it was because collectively the Rei clones were considered the "First Children" and to keep people from catching on they designated them all "children". Richard