English Voice: Tiffany Grant
Seiyuu: Yoko Miyamura
Asuka, the pilot of Eva Unit 02, was the second individual(The Second Child) chosen to operate an Eva. Her mother, Sorhyu Kyoko Zeppelin, suffered a complete mental collapse after an accident during an experiment. Feeling that her husband didn't care for her, and guilt that she hadn't been a good mother to Asuka, her hold on reality became lost, and she mistakenly believed that the rag doll she clutched to her breast to be Asuka - often calling it by name. Her decent into insanity, and subsequent suicide left deep emotional scars on Asuka. Because of her mother's severe mental illness and suicide, and her father's ensuing abandonment, Asuka developed an extremely independent and driven personality - one that resulted in her graduation from college at the age of fourteen, as well as her aggressive and competitive relationship with Shinji and Rei. Being 3/4ths German, Asuka finds certain Japanese customs quite irritating, such as sleeping on the floor and sliding doors without locks.
Asuka is a troubled girl whose flaming red hair is a sign of her burning anger. But her explosive emotional character masks an internal fragility. The ghosts of her past haunt her, driving her from the silence of memory into the raging turmoil of the present. With Eva Unit 02, she fights to quiet the voices.