Kaworu Nagisa
| Kaworu Nagisa / Tabris | |
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| Neon Genesis Evangelion character | |
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| First appearance | Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 24: "The Beginning and the End, or "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"" |
| Created by |
Hideaki Anno (Writer) Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Designer) |
| Voiced by |
Japanese: Akira Ishida English: Kyle Sturdivant (Neon Genesis Evangelion) Aaron Krohn (Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion) Greg Ayres (Neon Genesis Evangelion Director's Cut) Jerry Jewell (Rebuild of Evangelion) |
| Profile | |
| Species | Angel |
| Title | Fifth Child |
Kaworu Nagisa (渚 カヲル Nagisa Kaworu?) is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. He is the Fifth Child and the seventeenth angel, Tabris. He is sent to Nerv by Seele as a replacement pilot for Unit 02 after Asuka Langley Soryu's synchronization ratio falls below usability. He later breaks into Terminal Dogma to return to Adam, but after he discovers the being there is actually Lilith, he permits Shinji Ikari to destroy him. He appears in The End of Evangelion during Third Impact, communicating with Shinji in regard to the choice of whether to accept or reject Instrumentality.
Despite his very small screentime in the series (first appearing two episodes only before the series' finale, and with little to no presence in subsequent episodes), Kaworu became a popular and recognizable character, partially due to his sex appeal. A Newtype poll in 2010 ranked him the second most popular male anime character from the 1990s.
In early designs, Kaworu was depicted as a school boy with a pet cat who could switch to an "Angel form". In vol. 9 of the manga, one of Sadamoto's artworks is a portrayal of Kaworu dressed in black and holding a black cat.
Kaworu was named by screenplay writer Akio Satsukawa. Kaworu's surname "Nagisa" comes from the Japanese word nagisa (渚?), meaning "waterside" or "shore", concerned with sea. It also comes from Japanese movie director Nagisa Oshima. Adding to these, the character "渚", when divided, can be read shi-sha (シ者?). The title of episode 24 is "The Last Shisha" (最後のシ者 Saigo no Shisha?). "シ者" includes two Japanese words read as "shisha" (the character "シ" only represents the sound "shi"). The first is "messenger" or "" (使者 shisha?), while the other is "dead (person)" (死者?).
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