Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto found Misato's design the most difficult—conceiving her as an older "girl next door" who was in the military. He wished to have Misato be a fashionable character, changing her clothes constantly, but found that his own lack of fashion sense made him unable to show this. Furthermore, he envisaged Misato as a "loser girl" who would be promiscuous and not take things seriously.