On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:34:16 +0100, "goat" <goat@goat.goat> wrote:

>When Hideaki Anno created Evangelion, do you think that his intention was
>for Rei to be the perfect vision of femininity?

It has been theorised that Anno intended Rei to represent traditional
Japanese femininity, whilst Asuka represents modern, Western, feminist
ideals, with poor Shinji caught in the middle with a choice to make...

I have also seen it suggested that Asuka is supposed to be the 'ideal
girlfriend', whilst Rei is the 'ideal wife', from the perspective of a
Japanese male.

I believe that the only comment he has actually made on the matter was
something along the lines of "Rei is just the sort of girl that
Japanese guys go for".
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