>>270582171Misato's and Kaji's "romance" doesn't go anywhere, is cringeworthy, and at best results in a terrible sex scene and is otherwise mostly irrelevant to the story.
Shinji and Rei's "romance" comes off as cold platonic care at most, and would have otherwise resulted in literal incest and thus goes nowhere.
Shinji and Asuka's "romance" doesn't go anywhere, both have mental breakdowns, and they result in the end of the world and a dead end.
Hikari and Touji's "romance" doesn't go anywhere, it is entirely a background thing and irrelevant to the story.
Gendo and Yui's "romance" is barely shown, only implied, and it remains contested whether or not it was true love or not.
Gendo and Akagi's "romance" is not romance or love in any way shape or form, merely exploitation and manipulation which drives both to suicide.
The rest of the characters have nothing going for them in this category or it is not relevant in any way shape or form. Yet despite these obvious facts to uncontaminated watchers, the overactive fanbase of autists prevalent within anime fandoms will try to convince you that every single character is actually fucking another or try to create ships out of thin air to figure out such a scenario. I immediately learned to despise autists such as the one which barges into these threads to waste time on spamming tangents about these characters for no apparent reason.
