Did Shinji Kill Asuka?
Shinji Chokes Asuka to Test His Agency in the New World He's Created. .. . "Shinji Renounced the World Where All Hearts Had Melted into One and Accepted Each...
Shinji chokes Asuka to test his agency in the new world he's created. ... "Shinji renounced the world where all hearts had melted into one and accepted each other unconditionally. His desire... to live with 'others' — other hearts that would sometimes reject him, even deny him.
Why did Shinji kill Asuka?
The card translation says that Shinji started to strangle Asuka because he wanted to confirm that rejection and denial exist once more. By going back to a world where rejection and denial exist, Shinji has admitted that he feared them, and faced that fear.
Does Asuka die?
They proceed to eviscerate and dismember Unit-02 using their Spear of Longinus replicas, thus causing Asuka's body to actually suffer the wounds inflicted to the machine and apparently killing her (her Entry Plug is never seen being destroyed, but the NERV staff appear to believe she's dead).
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