to Rei and heads to her apartment. Finding the door unlocked and open, the boy enters, and happens upon his father's damaged old glasses, which Rei is storing on her nightstand as a keepsake. Being distracted by the glasses, Shinji is taken by surprise when he accidentally bumps into a naked Rei, who just had a shower, and ends up tripping and landing on top of her in a fit of panic. Rei does not flinch at the awkwardness of the situation, and proceeds to stoically ignore her colleague as he frantically tries to apologize and explain himself. Rei is later subjected to a new test with Eva-00, which is interrupted by an attack by a new enemy, the fifth Angel Ramiel. Shinji exits with Eva-01 to intercept the Angel, who fires a particle cannon hitting the mecha's chest. Shinji screams in pain as Eva-01's chest begins to melt from the heat. Production According to an official Neon Genesis Evangelion booklet, the fourth episode "Hedgehog's Dilemma" was once omitted in terms of the series composition and it was planned that "Rei I" would come after the third, "A Transfer". After the battle against Angel Shamshel, Shinji would become friends with his classmates Toji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida in the third episode, receiving a call from them. As production progressed, however, staff members said they thought there was a need to depict Shinji's relationships with the people around him after the third episode. Neon Genesis Evangelion director Hideaki Anno was also stuck after writing the script for the first episode, "Angel Attack", which took half a year to complete, so he wrote "Rei I" and the sixth episode "Rei II" before the third and the fourth. For production reasons, the post-recording dubbing followed the same order. In 1993 a presentation document of Neon Genesis Evangelion named was released, with the basic plot of the episode already programmed. The Japanese title "Rei, Beyond Her Heart" was also planned. Akio Satsukawa and Hideaki Anno wrote the episode; Junichi Sato did the storyboards with the pseudonym of Kiichi Jinme, Keiichi Sugiyama served as director and Masahiko Ohtsuku as assistant director. Shunji Suzuki worked as chief animator, while Seiji Kio served as setting assistant. Once the first part of Shinji's character arc was over in the previous episodes, the director decided to focus on Rei Ayanami in the two installments that followed. During the production,