Mari Illustrious Makinami
Mari Illustrious Makinami is a female anime and manga character who features in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Biography
Mari Illustrious Makinami (Japanese: 真希波・マリ・イラストリアス, Hepburn: Makinami Mari Irasutoriasu)
In Mari's first engagement with the Third Angel, she used no tactics whatsoever. The fight instead featured her attacking the Angel head-on, chasing it outside of the base and pinning it down before self-destructing. She also appears to be aware of the Evas' sentient nature to some extent, going so far as to directly addressing them in a compassionate tone and even whispering goodbye to Unit-05 after its destruction. This makes it unlikely that she was the one who sabotaged it, although her being an acquaintance of Ryoji Kaji is suspicious.
She parachutes to the roof of the Tokyo-3 Municipal Middle School some time later, colliding and getting acquainted with Evangelion Unit 01 pilot Shinji Ikari. The city is then attacked by the tenth Angel, Zeruel. Mari, unbeknownst to the special agency Nerv, takes control of Evangelion Unit 02, formerly owned by Asuka Langley Shikinami. She uses several weapons to pierce Zeruel's AT Field barrier, repeatedly striking the enemy and demonstrating familiarity with Evangelion units. Despite the attacks, the Angel is unharmed.[63] Mari then activates a mode called the Beast; the mecha begins to walk like a four-legged animal and furiously attacks the target. Zeruel defends itself by cutting off the arms and striking the head of Eva-02, and Rei Ayanami's Evangelion Unit 00 begins to fight it. The Eva-02 bites the enemy's AT Field, which counterattacks; Rei saves Mari by flinging her unit away from the battlefield. Mari's mecha falls on a civilian shelter where Shinji Ikari, intent on abandoning Nerv, is located; Mari lifts him with her mecha hand, and shows him the annihilation of the 00. Shinji boards the Eva-01 and confronts Zeruel to save Rei.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Mari Illustrious Makinami was a female human with brunette hair tied into twin-tails with bangs parted to the sides. She wears an indigo headband with a white robotic design. Her eyes are teal, and she wears burgundy rimmed glasses. She wears a white shirt with a symbol on the left breast, a dark grey tie, a red and green pleated skirt with black knee socks, and brown tassel loafers.
Powers and abilities
She also demonstrated considerable knowledge about the inner workings of Evangelions by activating Unit-02's Beast Mode (which resembles a "controlled berserk").
Notes
- Mari Illustrious Makinami was created by Kazuya Tsurumaki and designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto where she featured in the setting of the Rebuild of Evangelion universe.
In other media
Films
Appearances
- Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance: (2009)
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