>>3118788You know, anon, sometimes I feel like Rei is very dear to Anno, like he wanted to show the importance of self-sacrifice with her or something like that, but fans degraded that with all that waifu crap and he just wants to protect the deep part of his soul, by decreasing her popularity between the people who are too busy shitting each other to think about it seriously. Now, that is of course just me. Meh, who knows.