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I think Rei in Evangelion is named after Rei Hino in Sailor Moon
Evangelion
This poor daughter gets to look forward to so many types of abuse…
A couple years ago I met a teenager for whom Evangelion was her namesake. It didn’t really hit me that NGE was nearing 30 years old until that moment. We’re reaching the point that the (non-Japanese) baby Narutos and Sakuras are adults now
I have a friend who named his kid after a character from the Star Wars EU.
The friend in question was very upset when the EU was declared noncanon.
I really hope there’s some kid named after Canderous from KOTOR.
I went to school with a Belana (no apostrophe), who didn’t like Star Trek. Mostly because her dad loves it (obviously).
still a lovely name.
Having seen neither, I gotta say Neon Genesis Evangelion looks more appealing to me than Star Wars. I might even watch it someday.
It’s free on internet archive can even switch between dub and sub with VLC.
Yeah star wars is nothing special. The best thing that came of it is definitely Andor.
I mean, you’ve got to appreciate star wars for coming first. Without Star Wars, there’s probably no Gundam (and I’m not just talking about the knockoff lightsaber) and in turn no Evangelion as we know it.
Ray and she’s named from Ghostbusters.
At least Rei with an I is an existing name.
Japanese, unisex (predominately for girls), it can mean anything from beautiful or wise to zero or oyster …depending on how it is written. In the Anime, Rei is written in Katakana, not Kanji, so it is deliberately devoid of meaning.
Naming a kid Rey is almost as bad as naming a kid Khaleesi. And as far I’m concerned, naming any kid after a popular fictional character is technically child abuse.
I’ve gotta know what the conversation with the wife was like. Is she also an Evangelion fan? Did he just float ‘Rei’ as a unique name?
Honestly, that’s probably what happened. My kid has a somewhat unique name that’s a derivative of a fictional character, and I brought it up randomly as an idea and it stuck.
Thought about Theo for my son. Short for Theoden. Wife was on board (with Theo) but we ended up going with something else
I approve, to a certain degree (because life ain’t easy for Rei in NGE, to put it mildly, and shit gets pretty weird between her and her husband dad). At least it’s short and sweet, I’ve seen way worse. And, if my name had to be inspired by popular media, I’d also rather be named Rei from an actual show written by adult human beings instead of Rey from nu-SW. 🤷
husband dad
I’m gonna hope that was a typo for “husband’s dad”.
What, have you never seen a man clone his dead wife into a half-angel, half-teenager?
(Yeah, weird stuff happens in NGE)
So the thing about Evangelion…
Exactly what I was thinking. I’d take being named after an NGE character any day of the week over being named after a SW sequels character, lol
My neighbors daughter’s name is Arya and her age places her around the time of the last season of GoT.
Her mom swears she wasn’t named after Arya Stark. She’s half-Indian (the daughter) and mom is a white widow, so I don’t want to press to much about her husband…but man, iirc Arya was practically the biggest and most righteous badass of the whole series. She probably had the single highest body count. Girl should embrace that.
She’s got an older brother whose name sounds like a very famous musician, who was named in a very popular (Western) song around the time he was born, too. But spelled different.
Like, I’m sure these are culturally common names from their Indian side (or not, idk, I honestly don’t know a lot of Indians). But the coincidences are too real.
Arya / Aryan is a valid name in many* parts of India. (* It would be rude in Tamil Nadu and rare in the northeast.)
You can’t just say it would be rude in one region without elaborating.
Now my curiosity is piqued and I don’t even know how to get a brief answer without engaging an LLM or spending hours learning about regional discrepancies in Indian culture…a subject I had very little interest in, just a few minutes ago.
My ADHD brain has got blue balls, man.
The Aryans are a steppe (modern day south Russia) people who migrated to India four thousand years ago. Depending on who you ask, they mixed with / drove out the native people from India’s north and west.
Modern Indians speak Indo-European languages (often seen as being of Aryan origin) in the north and west, Dravidian languages (supposedly the native languages) in the south and Austroasiatic and other languages (from China and southeast Asia) in the northeast. In the 1950s, after India became independent, the Indo-European majority wanted Hindi, an IE language, to be the national language of India. There was opposition in the south and northeast, and the result is that India today has no national language, with the union (=federal) government using both English and Hindi, and states free to choose their own language(s). In Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, opposition to Hindi was strongest, and it gradually extended to other aspects of ‘Aryan’ culture. So the names Arya / Aryan would be considered a bit ‘culturally insensitive’. They would also be rare in the northeast, but more strange than rude.
Thank you. That’s so interesting.
I love unexpectedly learning random things. It’s what I miss about young reddit, people like Unidan just popping into threads and dropping knowledge unapologetically.
Couple of weeks ago I had some swelling in my leg accompanied by pain and standard procedure there is "rule out deep vein thromboses (clot in big leg veins) with a vascular study (sonogram), first and foremost.
First off…a male nurse escorted me to the sonographer in a transport chair (no chance of me walking all that way with the leg pain I was having). We shared an elevator with the UPS guy, who asked the nurse how he liked his sneakers (well known high-end walking sneaker brand)
I realized then and there that I’m sitting adjacent to the greatest source of candid reviews on mens walking shoes: elevator small talk between a male nurse and a male UPS driver.
I may have to buy myself a pair for myself after that conversation. The nurse was raving about them.
But I digress. The sonographer was the real hero of this story. She was awesome. Despite the pain and my social anxiety, I was exceptionally chatty that day, and asked a few questions, and learned all about the leg-pump effect, and that she could see on her display when I was holding my breath because it would slow down the velocity of the blood in my veins.
Like, I had never thought about either but they make total sense. Veins don’t have their own propulsion…most of the velocity they get is from “skeletal muscle pumps”…i.e. with the legs, as you walk or shift around while standing, it helps to pump the blood back up through the veins.
All of a sudden I understood so many things. Why DVT happens. Why “sitting is the new smoking” (we also didn’t have nearly as many office jobs when everyone smoked). How compression socks work. Why sometimes, especially when sick, I get a head rush when I stand up after sitting for a while.
Almost worth the thousands of dollars it cost to find out no clot, pre-existing varicose veins made it difficult for the initial doctor to differentiate between that and swelling, and that the pain was sudden onset sciatica, which I suspected all along (but never had it before so I was uncertain).
Okay not at all what this is about, but what is a white widow? If you don’t mind explaining. Looking that up brought me to a particularly strong strain of weed and a british terrorist.
She’s a British terrorist. Go with that one. That’s perfect.
A white woman who’s husband died.
Lol alright. Thanks. Thought it might be a term for something specific
Rei is a German detergent manufacturer.
Why not Rai because of Valiant Comics?
Hell yeah bro.
“I named her Rei because I’m hoping she will be very, very tall.”
Doesn’t Rey mean king in Latin?
Rey is king in Spanish
Rex
I think I’ve seen it as Rey in old timey Latin, like early Renaissance.
Hate to break it to you but early Renaissance is extremely new Latin
