Midori Kitakami

Pale skin, prominent lips, and a shock of pink hair make Midori easy to spot on the bridge. The color is not natural. EVANGELION 3.0: (-46h) reveals that she once wore long brown hair, and that touching a Wanderer, one of the Failures of Infinity, triggers coreification in living tissue. The process varies with the extent and duration of contact; in her case it drained the strands toward a pink tone, starting at the tips and working to the roots, leaving her hair shriveled and shortened.

Midori handles her radar duties without much enthusiasm, plastering her console in sticky notes and making no secret of her laziness. Unlike the fatalistic Koji Takao, she is genuinely frightened of death; when Misato orders the crew to fly against the Nemesis series, Midori joins those protesting the command, and Koji's shrug that death comes when it comes only leaves her baffled that a man could reach his age thinking that way. Her temper shows most sharply around Shinji, and nobody on the bridge greets the boy's entrance into the control room with more open fury.

EVANGELION 3.0: (-46h) depicts her earlier years with WILLE, including the clash between Evangelion Production Model-02α-EIV and a newly formed Wanderer that demonstrates the corrupting effect of the creature's touch. She then serves through the events of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo and Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time as part of the organization's bridge crew. Her family, a father, mother, and older brother whose fates go unconfirmed, never appears on screen; flashback scenes of her parents existed in Hidenori Matsubara's storyboards but were cut from the finished film. Mariya Ise voices her in Japanese and Tia Ballard in English, and her surname follows the franchise habit of borrowing warship names, in this case the Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Kitakami.