English Voice: Amanda Winn
Seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara
A stoic young girl of fourteen, Rei was the first individual(The First Child) chosen for participation in the Evangelion project and is the pilot of prototype Eva Unit 00. Her resemblance to Yui Ikari is due to the fact that her body was partially created from the salvaged remains of Yui after her death during an early Eva project experiment. She has died twice, only to have her soul re-installed in a clone body created for this purpose. Enigmatic, isolated and yet strangely gentle, Rei is the product if one man's struggle to govern the evolution of his species. Rei embraces his cause, and the man, Gendo Ikari, as the validation for her existence. But the knowledge that she is a substitute for something, for someone, whispers to her from the void of her missing soul. She is the First Child - the future incarnate.