RITSUKO AKAGI SPOILER!
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NERV's chief scientist. Built the Magi supercomputer system on the foundation her mother designed and died building. Brilliant, controlled, operating at the intersection of science and decisions she is fully aware she should not be making and makes anyway. Ritsuko understands more about what NERV actually is than almost anyone alive, and that understanding has required a series of compromises the show tracks with cold and unsentimental precision. The most knowingly compromised person in the building, which in NGE's cast is a competitive category.
RITSUKO THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
CHARACTER PHASE PROFILES //
Open page →Ritsuko can explain systems almost nobody else understands, but her relationship with Gendo exposes how little authority that knowledge gives her over the project as a whole.
Destroying the Rei bodies is both an act of revelation and an act of despair.
Destroying the Rei bodies is both an act of revelation and an act of despair.
Why it matters
Ritsuko knows the machinery and still cannot make herself equal to the people deciding what the machinery is for.
NERV, SEELE & INSTRUMENTALITY //
Open page →Ritsuko understands the Evangelions, the MAGI, Rei's replacement bodies and much of NERV's hidden science. That knowledge does not make her Gendo's equal.
Her personal relationship with Gendo becomes another place where information and power are distributed unevenly.
Her personal relationship with Gendo becomes another place where information and power are distributed unevenly.
Why it matters
Ritsuko can explain systems to almost everyone else while still being used inside a system she does not control.
