She is slightly more talkative than in the anime and becomes more connected with the people around her, largely through her interactions with Shinji. A 2014 interview with Sadamoto states Rei and Shinji have love for each other, with Rei as a motherly existence. However, she progressively becomes more involved with the people around her, and is revealed to be a key factor in the events that conclude the storyline. At the beginning of the series she is an enigmatic figure whose unusual behavior confounds her peers.

Rei Ayanami Rei Ayanami is the First Child and pilot of Evangelion Unit 00. Shinji in the manga is also considerably more aggressive, and develops deep feelings for Rei and Asuka. He is also less introverted and expresses himself more, although he is still plagued by self-doubt and hatred for his father. Unlike in the anime, Shinji's eyes are brown instead of blue. Shinji reluctantly agrees, and despite a rough start he learns to use Unit 01 to protect the city from creatures known as Angels that threaten to destroy mankind. See also: List of Neon Genesis Evangelion characters Shinji Ikari Shinji Ikari is invited to Tokyo-3 by his father Gendo Ikari to pilot a mecha known as the Evangelion Unit 01. Volume 10, for example, begins halfway through the battle with Armisael in episode 23, while Volume 11 adapts the events depicted in episode 24 and the first several minutes of End of Evangelion. The manga volumes do not always begin or end at points corresponding to episode breaks. Shinji's character and personality, alongside various other characters from the series (such as Asuka Langley Soryu), are also slightly different in the manga. The plot, however, features numerous small differences from the plot of the anime, including Toji Suzuhara's death the omission of five Angels and an earlier introduction of Kaworu/Tabris. Like the anime, the manga is focused on Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy who was recruited by his father Gendo to the shadowy organization Nerv to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha named ' Evangelion' into combat against beings called ' Angels'. Sadamoto was the original character designer for the anime with Hideaki Anno as the supervisor and animated only part of the original anime for the purpose of writing the manga version, However, in the early days, he was involved in some way up to the sixth episode by coming up with ideas, in the 24th episode, he was the animation supervisor. It was initially released before the anime series of the same name by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production and was originally intended as a companion adaptation to that of the TV series. It consists of 14 volumes, each composed of several 'stages' or chapters. It began in Shōnen Ace in December 1994 and ended in June 2013.

Petit Eva: Genesis Evangelion ( 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangelion) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and published by Kadokawa Shoten.

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