Ryouji Kaji

Kaji is a NERV special inspector who drifts into Shinji's orbit with a lazy grin and a talent for saying just enough to seem like he knows more than he lets on. He teases Misato with old familiarity, flirts freely, and treats the world's end-times paranoia with a shrug that never quite hides how closely he's watching everything.

The show gives him the loosest posture in a cast wound tight with anxiety, and that contrast alone makes him magnetic — he's the one adult who seems to be enjoying himself. Aaron Krohn plays the charm as slightly worn, a performance suggesting fatigue underneath the flirtation, so you sense there's a private cost to all that ease.