It may just be me, but I really don't like Asuka. She feels emotionally stale, really just being upbeat, with very real thoughts on things. I may have just described something good, but my problem comes when that is the only thing ever forever. And it seems like the anime itself is saying,"Don't worry! She has emotion, but its masked behind her facade, what could she really be thinking?" I'll be the first to say Asuka is great and Amazing or whatever, but just after I really find out if she's actually a character with emotions and feelings, not just some happy fish floating in a river until the river stops.