Scripsit illa aut ille Michael Wignall <wigs@evangelion.com>:
> I asked this question a while ago but no one seemed to be able
> to provide a definite answer. I've looked through everything I
> own and everything I can get my hands on and I haven't been
> and to find anything that answers my question absolutely.
> 
> So...How do we know that Asuka is born in 2001?

Probably we don't.

From line 193:
EVA04.txt-        him to be burdened with the destiny of humanity.
EVA04.txt-
EVA04.txt-Ritsuko: We have no choice but to put the controls of Evas into the hands
EVA04.txt:        of those 14-year-old children.
EVA04.txt-
EVA04.txt-Misato: I know.
EVA04.txt-

IMHO Ritsuko does know about Asuka when saying that (note the plural in
"those 14-year-old children" - if Shinji was meant, at least the
"those" would be a "that"). Why do I think that? Simple.

Ritsuko knows many things, I'd guess she also knows who the 2nd Children
is. She knows the 1st and the 3rd, she knows the numbering, and I guess
she knows also the 2nd. Who would not ask who the 2nd is if he/she knows
about a 1st and a 3rd?

Now I found something to conclude from that Ritsuko knows well about the
numbering:

From line 398:
EVA04.txt-
EVA04.txt-* Gendo, Ritsuko and Rei on a moving sidewalk.
EVA04.txt-
EVA04.txt:Ritsuko: The Third Children is leaving Tokyo-3 tomorrow.
EVA04.txt-
EVA04.txt-Gendo:  Then we'll reconfigure the data of Unit One for Rei. Regardless of
EVA04.txt-        the results of restarting Unit Zero, we'll start with that Unit.
EVA04.txt-
EVA04.txt:Gendo:  According to the Malduck Organization's report, the Fourth Children
EVA04.txt-        has yet to be found.
EVA04.txt-
EVA04.txt-Ritsuko: You mean that we cannot get more recruits for pilots.

So I conclude Ritsuko knows Asuka is 14 years old at the time episode 4
happens.

But IMHO it's still not enough information.


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