Asuka Langley Soryu

Asuka Langley Soryu is one of the most recognizable names in anime-inspired comics, and her presence across Dark Horse's Modern Age manga library — spanning 2003 to 2016 — speaks to just how enduring her appeal is. Debuting in Azumanga Daioh #2 in 2003 under the hands of Kiyohiko Azuma and Fumiko Chino, she turns up most prominently across titles like Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project and Neon Genesis Evangelion Campus Apocalypse, keeping vivid company alongside Shinji Ikari, Rei Ayanami, and Misato Katsuragi. With 17 catalogued appearances stretching across multiple series, she's a fixture of the Evangelion comics universe as rendered through Dark Horse's English-language releases. For fans of that rich, emotionally charged world of interconnected characters and alternate-universe storytelling, Asuka is absolutely worth tracking down.