ASUKA LANGLEY SOURYU from NEON GENESIS EVANGELION by SUZUNA KOGURE

CHARACTER: Asuka Langley Souryu Cosplay
FROM: Neon Genesis Evangelion Anime, and Manga
ARTIST: Suzuna Kogure, Japanese Cosplayer Girl
CATEGORY: Cute Cosplay Costume

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Asuka Langley Soryu (惣流・アスカ・ラングレー, Sōryū Asuka Rangurē)

Is a 14-year old fictional character, from the Neon Genesis Evangelion. She is designated as the Second Child of the Evangelion Project, and pilots the Evangelion Unit 02. Born, and raised in Germany, Asuka is shown as being of both German, and Japanese descent, as from her Japanese name and European appearance.

Her mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, is a scientist of Gehirn's German branch of the Evangelion Project, and when Asuka is four years old, participates in a contact experiment with Unit 02. Though she physically survives the test, Kyoko emerges mentally unstable, believing a doll she cares for to be an infant Asuka while only referring to her actual daughter as "that girl over there", and even going so far as to attempt to strangle the Asuka-doll, so that she could "die with me!"

After being institutionalized, Kyoko commits suicide by hanging herself. Asuka finding her body when running to tell her that she has been selected to be an Eva pilot. Her Japanese-American father quickly remarries Kyoko's doctor, with whom he had been having an affair. Though Asuka's defensiveness quickly repels her new stepmother, and the two learn to tolerate one another, while maintaining a cheerful façade of a normal family. Asuka proves to be a child prodigy, earning a university degree in an unspecified field while still a teenager, and becoming fluent in Japanese.

Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangerion)

Is an umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. It has grossed over 150 billion yen since 1995. The central works of the franchise feature an apocalyptic mecha action story, which revolves around the efforts by the paramilitary organization Nerv, to fight hostile beings called Angels.

Nerv's primary weapon against the Angels, are giant mecha called Evangelions which are piloted by select teenagers. Other works deviate from this theme to varying degrees, focusing more on romantic interactions between the characters, side stories which did not appear in the original works, and/or reimaginings of the conflicts from the original works.