| abstract | - Yui Ikari(碇 ユイIkari Yui) is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. She is Gendo Ikari's wife and Shinji Ikari's mother. Her soul is bonded to the Evangelion Unit 01, and it is implied on numerous occasions in the original anime that there is a connection between her and Rei Ayanami.
- Yui Ikari, the mother of Shinji Ikari and the wife of Gendo Ikari, was a brilliant bio-engineer who worked for Project E at Gehirn. Additionally, she is the daughter of a prominent member of SEELE. She died in 2004 as a result of her Contact Experiment with Unit-01, but her spirit lives on within the Eva as eternal proof of humanity's existence. Though seldom seen in Lilin form, Yui Ikari is one of the most powerful presences in the series. When she is seen as a human, Yui is shown to be kind, optimistic, and motherly. But the most striking part of her personality is her faith in humanity and belief that it is worth preserving and remembering. As a student at Kyoto University, she met her "sensei", Kozo Fuyutsuki. The nature of their academic relationship is unknown. Fuyutsuki's specialty was metaphysical biology, which has little or nothing to do with what Yui was officially studying, bioengineering. However, the two were close and she regarded him as a friend and confidant.
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