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Kensuke Aida (相田ケンスケ, Aida Kensuke?) is a fictional character from the Rebuild of Evangelion film series. He is an military otaku, Toji's best friend, and one of students in the same class as Shinji Ikari, Toji Suzuhara, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Shikinami Langley, and Hikari Horaki. Kensuke solidifies his friendship with Shinji after Shinji saves him and Toji during the fight against the Fifth Angel.
Appearance[]
Kensuke is a teenager with brown messy hair and freckles on his face. He wears a pair of red glasses. His usual attire includes the usual school uniform, with blue jeans pants and a shirt not under the belt over a red T-shirt. Sometimes he wears camouflage shirts, short hiking pants and a military vest and military boots. In 3.0 + 1.0, Kensuke's hair is less messy, has lost his freckles and has stubble in his face, he is usually seen using black pants and boots, a long shirt with a green vest over it, sometimes he also wears a green coat over it and also carries a backpack with materials inside it, he also sometimes wears a hat with stripes under it. He lives in a hut near Village 3.
Personality[]
Kensuke is an energetic teenager, and is rarely seen with a sad face. Obsessed with military stuff, Aida is often seen carrying a hand videocam recording videos of military vehicles and the Evangelions. In 1.0, during the attack of the Fifth Angel, Kensuke risks his life by escaping the ground shelter with Toji, just wanting to see Evangelion Unit-01 in action. However, he is almost crushed by the unit itself, and Misato's order them to get inside the entry plug by climbing a ladder.
History[]
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone[]
In Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Kensuke and Toji escapes from the shelter to see the Evangelion fight. After the battle against the Fifth Angel, he becomes friends with Shinji and later, they encourage him to fight the Sixth Angel, by telling they have faith in him.
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance[]
Kensuke Aida in Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.
In Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Kensuke goes with Shinji and the others to a Second Impact restoration center, and shows how envious he is of Shinji when he knows that Rei has invited him to dinner. During the final showdown, he is seen with Toji, Hikari, and Pen Pen, fleeing from the 10th Angel's attack.
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo[]
Kensuke does not appear and is not mentioned in Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time[]
Kensuke returns in Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time as an adult, working as a self-described "jack-of-all-trades" in the Village 3. He is very friendly to Shinji and supports Asuka as a father figure[1][2][3][4][5] and she lives in his house when not in the AAA Wunder where she instead shares quarters with Mari. Asuka remains isolated from the community, as she wishes to avoid "the Lilim", when not on the AAA Wunder, calling him by the nickname "Ken-Ken", though he still refers to her only as "Shikinami". Toji mentions how helpful Kensuke, the "survival otaku" has been in keeping their community together. Visually, Kensuke looks very similar to Ryoji Kaji, the elder. After Kensuke leaves on a supply run, Asuka strolls around naked in his house and finds Shinji, who much to her irritation, reacts badly to her DSS Choker, still traumatized by Kaworu's death. Kensuke appears, covers Asuka, and cleans Shinji's vomit. They talk and Asuka expresses irritation at Shinji's inaction, but Kensuke defends him. Later, Kensuke finds out Shinji ran away, but before leaving to retrieve him, thanks her for feeding Shinji, to which Asuka responds: "It's not like I did it for him or anything".
Kensuke proves a supportive figure for Shinji also, not unlike Kaji, telling him about how he overcame his difficulties in life and became a pivotal part of the community. When the Rei attends school, for instance, he is also teaching a class to the children of the village. Ryoji Kaji refers to him as "Aida-sensei". He is receptive to Shinji's situation with his father, and tells him of Kaji's death and Ryoji Kaji, named after him. When the Wunder arrives to pick-up Asuka, Kensuke and the others insist on Shinji not going with her, but he insists. Later, in a flashback to Shikinami's childhood during Instrumentality, she laments not having a parent to care for her, and Kensuke tells her it is alright.
Voice Actors[]
- Japanese: Tetsuya Iwanaga
- English: Alejandro Saab, Greg AyresWP
- French: Adrien Solis, François Créton, Gabriel Bismuth-Bienaimé
- Italian: Stefano Crescentini
- Portuguese (Brazil): Pedro Alcântara, Raphael Ferreira
- Russian: Stepan Shashkin (Reanimedia - 1.0 and 2.0), Roman Lyutikov (Reanimedia - 3.0+1.0)
- Spanish (Spain): Carlos Lladó, Óscar Redondo
- Spanish (Latin America): Eduardo Aranda (ZIMA), Jorge Riveros (Amazon)
- Catalan:
- German: Gerrit Schmidt-Foß
- Hindi:
- Korean:
- Chinese (Taiwan):
References[]
- ↑ Let’s talk about Ken Ken. First, when I received the script, I noticed Kensuke was written into it. Even though he wasn’t called Ken Ken, there wasn’t that kind of connection in the previous film, Q. In the TV series, he was one of the “three idiots.”<brAsuka will give people nicknames like “baka Shinji” and the like.
Asuka’s not a human and can’t live with the people in the third village so she freeloads off of Kensuke.
Asuka was isolated, she couldn’t grow up, only her hair grew.
Ken Ken is trying to take care of an isolated Asuka.
Ken Ken took the place of Mr. Kaji.
Try to think about this everyone. Ken Ken is such a good guy. Do you think such a good guy would try to advance a physical relation with a troubled 14-year-old girl?
Asuka says to Shinji that she's already become an adult but that doesn't mean sexually.
Asuka says “I am alone (in the film)”. Asuka was isolated.
Ken Ken has been watching over Asuka.
I think Ken Ken is like a father [to Asuka].
Asuka and Kensuke’s relationship is not a romantic one but rather a parental one.
When Shinji said “I think I liked Asuka,” it means that at the time he liked Asuka, even though he never came back 14 years ago.
To be honest, at the time of recording the last scene, Director Anno and Assistant Director Tsurumaki explained it.
Director Anno told me that Asuka’s ending scene correlates to the idea that Ken Ken is like a father to child Asuka.
Asuka really wants the father and mother that she's never had and Kenken could see this so his intention was to foster something like that.
Personally, I really think that “Ken Ken’s not a bastard.”
I'm not a fan of the "Ken Ken" scene.
I personally strongly think "no way Ken Ken is acceptable [as Asuka's partner]"
I think the Original Asuka is not Asuka Soryu.
My performance instructions were “Please do Soryu and Shikinami differently”
Asuka Soryu was not a clone.
When adult Asuka says, “Baka Shinji,” it has a special meaning.
Ken Ken doesn’t make a move on Asuka.
Ken Ken would never make a move on 14-year-old Asuka.
Ken Ken whose affection is deeper than the sea, stands by Asuka's side without laying a finger on her. [Imitating Asuka's voice].
Miyamura confirms Tsurumaki was in charge of everything Asuka-related, and asks fans to create new fanworks on pixiv for her to see.
Yuko Miyamura, MIYAMURA YUKO Corp. - Fanicon March 20th 2021, around 37 minute mark. - ↑ "That's what I was told during the recording, and I thought, "Why?" (laughs). But there are many kinds of love scenes. When a father takes a picture of his daughter in her furisode (a long-sleeved kimono), it's [parental] love. The daughter is like, "Hey, stop it, Dad!" I'm not trying to force to deny it, but Kensuke is a good guy... If he's a good guy, he won't touch her. If Asuka is lonely and wanted to be pampered, it ends only at "there, there". There's nothing more to it than that. In other words, Kensuke is a good guy." - Miyamura Newtype June interview
- ↑ Asuka and Kenken's facial expressions, and their movements also seemed intimate. When I asked General Director Anno "Why are they intimate?", He said "No?" (Laughs). I remember having a conversation saying "It's not bad ..." I'm smiling. "
"Kenken is a really good guy. He can watch over Shinji with the attitude of waiting” until he recovers, "and I felt that to Asuka he was like a father. I'm sure Kenken is like a father. I think he was patient and waited for Asuka to open her heart and accepted him. I also want to be told, "Miyamu (Miyamura) can stay as it is" (laughs). ). However, in my interpretation, Asuka and Kenken have a clean relationship! - 25 Years as Asuka - ↑ Character designer Hidenori Matsubara commenting on Asuka and Kensuke's relationship, translation by Richitzer: "I was just talking with Kazuya Tsurumaki, the director, about Eva... He said he loves Asuka. He was still annoyed over the Asuka and Kenken thing." This tweet is from April 12th, a day after they started work on the Evangelion 3.0 (-120 min.) prequel manga at Anno's suggestion.
- ↑ Shinji's still fourteen both inside and out, and I don't think he could have helped Asuka, a girl fourteen on the outside but twenty-eight on the inside. Kensuke's twenty-eight on the outside and on the inside, so wouldn't he be the person who could do it? In the group for all the EVA voice actors on the LINE messaging app, Miyamura Yuko posted, "If Kensuke's the one who can be there for her, then please be there her."
[...]I think the fans think that Asuka has to be rescued. In regards to the meaning of rescuing, Asuka’s finger puppet was very symbolic. I think it’s almost certainly something that’s irreplaceable for Asuka. Because it’s an important prop, in the scene where Kensuke is wearing a certain puppet costume says, “Asuka is Asuka, that’s enough.” I interpreted it as Kensuke was the prop that rescued Asuka because he was inside [the puppet costume]. - Tetsuya Iwanaga (Kensuke), 3.0+1.0 booklet interview