End of Evangelion - Why does Misato dissolve into LCL and why did Asuka re-materialize?


These thoughts keep me awake at night:

After Misato is shot in the back while helping Shinji get to Unit 01- the
elevator closes, she falls over, talks to herself/the deceased Kaji,
Rei/Lilith/Adam appears above Misato and then there is an explosion. But if
the frame is paused at the right moment- you can see her body is in two
separate pieces- however later there is a shot with her jacket in a puddle of
LCL. Video for reference: <https://youtu.be/63UIBoIF3mY?t=6m30s>

I'm confused because one of the SEELE guys seemed very determined to remain
alive until instrumentality occurred- He grins happily right before dissolving
into LCL- and in the puddle of his LCL, his clothes and what looks like to be
many medical devices that were keeping him alive into old age remains. From
what I understand- during instrumentality, only _living_ things dissolved into
LCL (So SEELE guy had all the medical devices, Kaji didn't dissolve, etc).
**So I'm wondering why Misato dissolved into LCL because it looks like the
explosion killed her.** I'm guessing it's possible that her jacket is just in
a random puddle of LCL and she didn't actually dissolve- and her body could be
off-screen.

As far as Asuka goes- at the end, her and Shinji re-materialize from the LCL
as they will to. But she was killed by the mass-production eva units. I would
assume that she also did not dissolve into LCL but then **why did Asuka re-
materialize if she was not a part of instrumentality?**

I realize the director, Hideaki Anno, says there are no "right answers" to the
meaning of the movie but I am wondering if there are any clarifications to
these questions. And please correct me if I'm incorrect on any of the above
because I'm sure I have a few misunderstandings :)

EDIT: Defined my questions in **bold** and video reference added




Here is a stab at my question to try to clean up my own mess:

Hakase's comment is correct as a scene is shown that all the NERV personal
killed by Japan's military did dissolve during instrumentality. [![enter image
description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0zX0S.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0zX0S.jpg)

So the answers are:

**Misato dissolved into LCL because all humans- dead or alive, dissolved into
LCL during instrumentality.**

**Asuka also did dissolve into LCL- so all humans that ever existed could re-
materialize after Shinji rejected instrumentality.**

To clarify this:

> I'm confused because one of the SEELE guys seemed very determined to remain
> alive until instrumentality occurred

I do not have as much basis for the following but I think the SEELE guy wanted
to stay alive to make sure that the Human Instrumentality Project would
happen, and to see it actually occur after all their efforts- as it was the
organization's ultimate goal. So it was a misunderstanding to believe that
humans must be living to be a part of instrumentality.

