English Voice: Kurt Stoll
Seiyuu: Tetsuya Iwanaga
Kensuke is in the same school class as the Evangelion pilots and is best friends with Toji. He is enarmored with all manner of military hardware and knowledge. He was overjoyed by the chance to join Shinji on the deck of a U.N aircraft carrier while the fleet was transporting Eva Unit 02 to Neo Tokyo-3. Though he is one of Shinji's closest friends, Kensuke cannot understand Shinji's reluctance to pilot an advanced weapon like Eva Unit 01.
From giant mecha combat to daring covert operations, Kensuke's imagination is a playground like no other. To the outside world though, he's an average boy, perhaps a bit more perceptive than his classmates, but simply average. With the dramatic arrival of the Angels, the outside world begins to look a lot more like Kensuke's dreams, and piloting an Eva becomes the boy's one desire.