Personal view I agree that Asuka is a proud strong individual Her goal is to succeed As the story goes she graduated from college university at an early age and was excited to join the EVA project She has tried to mature very fast although at the age of 14 this is surely a huge strain Her brave efforts to succeed are constantly grounded by Shinji who unwittingly has a natural talent for piloting EVA 01 However hard Asuka tries Shinji always seems to be better then her Eventually this drives Asuka into making a foolish attack on the fifteenth Angel Arael which in turn mentally rapes her leaving Asuka almost comatosed Prior to this Asuka is a strong sociable likeable character and as with many characters in the story you find your self sadenned by the terrible events that unfold around such promising ability