The "seiyū" Yūko Miyamura voices Asuka's character in all her appearances in the original series, and the later films, spin-offs, video games, and the new "Rebuild of Evangelion" film series. The only exception is an introspective scene from the twenty-second episode, when other female members of the original cast, like Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara, Miki Nagasawa, Yuriko Yamaguchi, and Junko Iwao voice her. According to Miyamura, Asuka's dubbing proved difficult. She said she wished to "erase "Evangelion"" and forget her experience with it. Towards the end of the first broadcast, the "seiyū" suffered from bulimia and found herself in a disastrous psychic state, similar to that of Asuka's character. After the release of the movie "The End of Evangelion" (1997) she said, "I think I had a kamikaze feeling during the voice-over". The voice actress identified herself so much with the character she took a conversation course in German, decided some of the character's lines, and Asuka's details, such as the cloth puppet in the shape of a monkey featured in her childhood flashbacks. One of her ideas was the German sentences Asuka utters in the twenty-second episode of the series in a telephone conversation with her stepmother.