赤木 ナオコ

Former chief scientist of Gehirn, NERV's predecessor, and designer of supercomputer MAGI which she used her thought pattern as the supercomputer's base program. She died many years ago.

She is also the mother of Akagi Ritsuko, however, her partner is unknown.

She secretly had an affair with Ikari Gendo after the death of his wife. Gendo later also had an affair with her daughter./

She died by ******* due to her guilt after killing Rei I due to jealousy and Rei I's similarity to the late Ikari Yui/