That's both easy and hard.
Personally, within the confines of the show and EoE, I believe that they do not love each other (they’re way too broken to begin that) but they do need each other since they’re the only ones who understand each other’s trauma. And like the love through vulnerability outlined by Brown, this self-love is no mere sentimentalism, but requires Shinji to embrace even his negative emotions, whatever he is given in life. ). Shinji is very capable of love, but when a crisis comes he looks out only for himself. For example, Shinji is more compassionate, and Asuka is more decisive. To start, just look at who Asuka is as a person in comparison to Shinji: the exact opposite!

He just wanted to screw me.
That isn't the Shinji I can either like or respect. Because he doesn't pretend to be someone else, like she does. Asuka is arguably attracted to Shinji, because he is genuine. He may simply find her attractive, which at their age with puberty could be the only reason. Given that the children from the Instrumentality Project or the Marduke Report have only provided teenagers(14yos).

AsuShin is the het ship between Asuka Langley Sohryu and Shinji Ikari from the Neon Genesis Evangelion fandom. His mother died when he was young, and his father has distanced himself so completely that they rarely even speak. Thus the caress and her not fighting back. He loves Rei, and kawrou. When it comes to Asuka he is mainly just lustful and uses her as a object. Why Shinji Ikari and Kaworu Nagisa are in love. Adolescents. The water started to boil, and Shinji turned around and looked at her. It would be better if she could love someone her own age! I knew he would run at the first opportunity. For Shinji, Asuka and Rei are both merely a … At first she had been in denial about their relationship, but after a while she became very proud of. Shinji Ikari, the protagonist of Eva, has had more trials in his short life than Job. This could have been on purpose, becuase you think Asuka would have noticed she was sleeping in his bed.In Magma Diver, while their at the swimming pool, Asuka after mentioning Thermal Expansion. At the beginning of the series, she only thinks to herself about who Shinji has a thing for her. He knew that's he was watching. If that is truly the case, than it should be said that Shinji may have been attracted to both Asuka and Rei, but he didn’t truly love either of them. She even went as far as to threaten any female that cast a second glance at 'her Shinji'. So Shinji is traumatized and has no one to talk to, nowhere to go. Misato knocked on Asuka's door, and softly murmured, "Asuka, are you okay?" And I'm not lovable. No, she was not. Another point is touching. As Neon Genesis Evangelion is meant as a deconstruction of anime tropes, so is Asuka and Shinji's relationship a darker take on tsundere romance stories. The other times he blushed in the series, Shinji was not smiling. Asuka is a complete mental disaster, Kaji (Misato's lover) was murdered, and Rei has been killed and replaced with a clone of herself. Shinji never lets anyone touch him during the series. I hate him. "Go away, Misato!" So Shinji is traumatized and has no one to talk to, nowhere to go. Kaworu's Quickie Love Confession. I think "like" doesn't really do the relationship justice. Bad Points: Asuka and Shinji are both majorly f#*ked up. Open, honest, and equal relationships between people in Evangelion seem to be either non-existent or doomed.

They don't live together, and have no desire to do so.