(Again, I skipped Day 12, because I accidentally included its answer in the post of Day 4)
Shinji/Rei, Shinji/Asuka and Mari/Asuka.
I’m not into boys love, so no KawoShin here - don’t get me wrong, it’s not because I have any qualm about homosexual relationships, but because of some bad memories related to something named K Project (its OSTs are pure earworms, in contrast :P ).
Anno once commented that he created Rei Ayanami as a deconstruction of the Japanese concept of an ideal woman - humility, obedient and selfless. All these factors joined hands together to make her a very tragic character, if not the most tragic one of the cast. She couldn’t be loved by people around her, who viewed