Evangelion Movie Changes Asuka’s Name
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 14, 2009 00:42 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Announcements, Asuka Langley, Evangelion, Marketing, Movies
The new Evangelion movie, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, has driven fans into a frenzy of speculation with the surprise announcement that Asuka’s name is apparently to change.
The change is revealed by way of some official advertising, in which the cast is listed; fans looking over the names immediately (or possibly after obsessive scrutiny) spotted a mysterious 式波・アスカ・ラングレー / Shikinami Asuka Langley, presumably the same character as the previous 惣流・アスカ・ラングレー / Sohryu Asuka Langley.
Along with the plethora of new terms introduced in the advertising, and with the prior announcement of “Mari”, a brand new character, it seems that the movie may break from the previous iterations of the series in a big way.
Fans are wondering just what all this is about? Could it indeed be looking to “explore new ground”?
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The Director wants to keep the original Evangaleon as canon by creating subsequent versions that were made to cator to the fans as "alternate universes".
So technically its not a reboot as some might say.
I've read it as Shikigami Asuka Langley (~_~)
This is an alternate universe version.
So, Shikinami is the alternate reality name of this version of Asuka. That makes sense since Shinji is not a fruitcake in this version. What does that mean for the story?
Shinji ends up with a mental threesome with Asuka and Rei, and their psychic orgasm saves the world.
Or whateva....
In his mind he had already rei, asuka AND misato. It was in ep 25/26.
Most pointless change ever.
Who gives a flying fuck?
at first i rage'd but then i said "that was nice"
I'm not a fan of Asuka (although I find her character appealing) but I think "Sohryu" sounds really better than a new Japanese family name. Asuka Langley Sohryu... it's one of the most interesting name I've heard in anime.
evangelion? the greatest story ever? fuck off. yawn and boring.
jeez....cant they just stick with the original name D :
and I read it as shinigami...
urk,,it made me remembers the shi(t)nigami thing in MS IGLOO 2...
I work with the series and I've been checking people coments on the internet about the name change. i searched in google this was one of the first websites that came out.. ill be a little spoiler... yes indeed the series is going on a different direction... bai bai
Thank you for this terribly informative disclosure.
But you know, the ending to the original series was a realization of an alternative reality.
It is fitting for a series like Evangelion to be switching things around.
There was that one scene in EoE where he was given a glimpse into some weird sitcom-like version of his life.
Maybe at that moment Shinji simultaneously connected to all the parallel universes ( with the ability to jump into one) but ultimately chose the history he had already lived through.
Well, whatever the case it definitely gives an excuse for alternate Eva timelines.
Wasn't that sitcom like situation in ep 25 of the original series? (btw, I wouldn't mind seeing more of this happy world, as long as shinji gets rei in the end xD)
And given the recently popularity of alternate universes (bokurano, noein etc.), I wouldn't be surprised either.
why change the name...i still dont understand???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Shikinami_(1929)
I personally don't care too much (though I liked Sohryu better), but what I don't understand is why they had to change it. I know there's he destroyer, but then why not just change everyone's names to different ships? Why just Asuka?
eh w/e.
Ouch!!!
If is other lecture of this name... maybe pass. Hang it there Asuka!!!
I consider myself a pretty hardcore Asuka fan, I don't know what to say about this apparent name change yet as so few information is available.
who's the artist for that pic?
important sauce is delicious
who knows but its freaken awesome
Indeed that is one amazing picture.
Ayanami has the same secondary letter 'nami' , maybe there's a deeper connection between Rei and Asuka in the new movie?
No. She is still Shinji's mom.
Not in the new movies, perhaps? Besides... what makes Rei to the mother of shinji? His mother is dead and Rei just has her genes.
Nevertheless, the new movies will be superspecialhyperaweseome.
Evangelion : The Franchise Milking version? :D
mmm Asuka Milk....
Fuck yeah, I'd like me some Asuka milk right now...
fucking seconded
Let's go gang-milk her!
fuck i third that
milku raep? XD
lemme join...
fukking thirded :D
alter ego?
this is madness!!!
how dare them change her name
Asuka Langley SHIKINAMI?! Doesn't sound right at all. Seriously, is there another way to write Sohryu? But now at least it's a name for a WWII warship.
There are other ways to write Sohryu -- in fact, Asuka's WWII aircraft carrier namesake is actually written 蒼龍 (blue/green dragon) rather than 惣流 (all + flow of current or method) which is how Asuka's surname is written.
None of those ways of rewriting Sohryu can turn into 式波/Shikinami, though. The only readings for the first kanji in Shikinami are "shiki" (on-yomi/Chinese reading) or "nori" (nanori/name reading).
But I'm no expert.
If anyone has alternative readings feel free to suggest - I couldn't find a reference for this reading.
A long lost sister maybe?
The stuffed monkey from hell?
Changing her name is like declaring Pluto no longer as part of the solar system. Shit this ruins my coffee.
Her name came from a battle ship, changing it would make it weird
@Anonymous: 2009-03-14 01:56:13
If memory serves me, Asuka's father is actually American, he just lived in Germany. Probably due to Asuka's mother having been stationed at the German branch of Gehirn. Later he marries an German woman, who's the stepmother that Asuka can't get along with.
So with her mother being Japanese and her father a Yank. That makes Asuka's names fully appropriate, considering there really isn't a German angle there to begin with. She was just born and raised there, that's it.
@anon: She was listed as an American citizen, altho she grew up in Germany. Thus her German vocabulary.
My apologies, I was referring to Shikinami.
綾波 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Ayanami_(1929)
綾波 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Ayanami
Looks the same to me, then again, lot of this stuff looks highly similar to me anyway, so I'm probably one of the last people one should ask if it's similar or not.
The characters are different - I tried searching before (in Japanese) and all I came up with were some obscure technical terms... Not sure if these are also relevant or if the ship connection is all.
@Anonymous: 2009-03-14 01:56:13
Oops. Ignore the above.
Misread you. Me bad
Did notice that in that Shikinami article, that one of the sister ships of that vessel was called: Ayanami.
Don't wanna be picky, but what exactly makes the name Langley German, when it's taken from an american carrier? ^^
The only "German" part about Asuka's name is her first name sounding distantly like "Oskar", which "can" be referred as a common german name. ^^
Pwned.
Except that it's obviously a male name...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Shikinami_(1929)
:)