Mari Makinami

Mari Makinami Illustrious is a fictional character from the Rebuild of Evangelion film series. She is an Evangelion pilot and third-party operative introduced in Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. In regards to Mari, she is the result of us trying to make a character that isn’t very ‘Evangelion’-like. Perhaps the way she’s one step away from the seriousness of ‘Evangelion’ makes her appear more ‘FLCL’-like. I didn’t make her purposefully into a ‘FLCL’-like character, but rather she was the result after talking to and finding some common ground with Anno-san.