Shinji VS Love
Many say that Kaworu was gay and that he was in love with Shinji, while Shinji just experienced their mutual relationship as friendship. Others say that none of them were gay or in love with each other and that they only loved each others as friends. Some people also believe that Shinji loved either Asuka or Rei Ayanami.
This is my own opinion:
Shinji VS Kaworu
The two loved each other, though they might have never been in love with each other. But there is a possibility. Shinji was lost and had no one to go to and out of nowhere, Kaworu appears. Kaworu and Shinji soon became friends since they were both two lonely teenage boys. They did shower together, sleep together, talk openly with each, but still, they only had a friendship.
Still, it was a strong friendship. It only lasted less than 24 hours, but they managed to do more than most friends have done for an entire year. Shinji opened up for Kaworu and opened up the walls of his heart for him, something Shinji had never done to anyone else. Kaworu was someone Shinji felt safe with, someone who loved Shinji unconditionally, not despite of his flaws, but with them. I truly believe that the two were meant for each other and had Kaworu been a girl, I think that all Eva fans would have accepted him as Shinji's "girlfriend".
Episode 24:
Kaworu: You dislike people?
Shinji: Well, I don't really care. Except for my father, who I hate.
Shinji (thinking): (Why am I talking about this kind of thing to Kaoru-kun?)
Scene from EoE:
Shinji: I give up! I give up! I give up! I give up!
Kaworu: You gave up?
Shinji: Kaworu-kun! Is that where you have been?
(Lillith-Kaworu cups Eva Unit 01, with Shinji inside of it, in his hands. Shinji closes his eyes and smile happily)
Yui (whisper): Kaworu is now your most inner wish manifested. What do you wish for?
Shinji VS Asuka
Shinji and Asuka had a love/hate relationship, but they were not in love. Since asuke moved in with Shinji and Misato, Shinji, of course, tried to get close to her, but she always turned him down. They developed a hate ship relationship that lasted throughout the entire series and movies. Shinji did say "I need you" to Asuka in EoE, but he never said "I love you". The thought of the two being in love is absurd. During EoE, Shinji did call out Asuka's name each time he was about to mentally freak out, but that was only because he felt that she was stronger than him and that she could support him, in a way.
In the series, when Eva Unit 01 was swallowed by the Dirac Sea, Shinji had a dream sequence where Asuka said "I won't have you if you're not all mine". That scene was just a mere injection of Shinji's mind coming from Leliel. Even if Asuka had said that, Asuka wouldn't have meant that she loved Shinji. Asuka thinks that she is independent and doesn't need anybody. If she wouldn't have said that in real life, she'd only have meant that she just wanted to use Shinji to make herself feel even more superior.
Asuka (to Shinji): "If you won't be all mine, then I won't have you at all!"
Scene from My Purest Heart For You (EoE):
Shinji: Asuka, help me! You're... you're the only one that can!
Asuka: Liar... To you, anybody will do! You're afraid of Misato and the First... and of your mother and father, too!
Shinji: Asuka...
Asuka: You're only using me as an escape - because that's the easiest way not to get hurt!
Shinji: Asuka, help me!
Asuka: Because that's the easiest way not to get hurt!
Shinji VS Rei
If the thought of Shinji and Asuka becoming a couple was absurd, then this one must be insane. The two could never become a couple, since they are practically family. Half of Rei's DNA is from Yui while the other half is from Lillith. She has a fake soul, but still, as the series progress, it develops. She gains the gift of understanding, emotions and crying. Rei loves Shinji as a mother, even if her soul isn't from Yui. She's always overprotective towards Shinji and even sacrificed her life for him. In EoE, she even let Shinji decide the fate of Humankind.
Shinji isn't in love with Rei either. He feels a connection between them and he feels that his mother is involved. Even if he had feelings towards her, if wouldn't be that kind of love.
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