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Originally Posted by Iriliane

Spoiler:

Touji does survive in the anime but is never heard from again other than, at one point, Kensuke mentions going to visit him in the hospital. In the manga however he is killed outright which makes a fair bit more sense. He might as well have died in the anime for all the effect he had on the plot after being injured,

Spoiler for Touji's situation...:

I think he wasn't killed outright in the TV show because Gainax wasn't ready for Shinji to go completely insane. And anyway, he wasn't even suppose to be seriously injured in the original script; the idea to sever one of his legs was a last-second decision when the cells were being painted.