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I'm in a RahXephon mood.
Post any big RahXephon wallpapers.
Picture related but not necessarily big
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RahXephon = Eva + Egypt
RahXephon - Egypt = Eva

This is now an Eva thread no objections
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yeah, but eva was shit. i object strongly.
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I love people who claim Eva was shit but like RahXephon or vice versa. A more accurate statement would be RahXephon = Eva + love story. Eva purposefully didn't go that route to avoid being cliche. Though I certainly don't consider RahXephon cliche, I would say they both dangerously straddle the line going on pretentious. The idea behind Eva was to defy conventions, and everybody hates it for not being conventional. Pfff...

At any rate, this is a RaH thread no exceptions, gtfo or start an Eva thread.

Incoming SHITSTORM!!!
>> Anonymous
>>377774
But it wasn't Egypt -- it was Aztec.
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I've got a bunch, so here's some.
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>> Anonymous
Raxephon reminded me more of the Greek mythology than anything else

Specifically this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFzqpq8PYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-BKjfYrWc
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Also check ->>377540
>> Anonymous
>>377778
Ok, i'll revise my statement. I wanted to like eva. I did. made it all the way through. but the end left me...angry. the characters were too static and unlikeable, and the plot was fuzzy at best and a clusterfuck at worst. I know they're very similar, but i felt that RX pulled it off better.
>> Anonymous
A lot of people didn't like the ending to Eva. To them, I say watch the movie (can be found on Gvideo)

But the thing was that the anime, though it had this awesome story with the Angels and everything, wasn't about the actual angels. It was always about the characters and how fucked up they were and how much more fucked up that they get. You weren't meant to actually like the characters, actually I think it'd be more correct to say otherwise. You're just supposed realize what they go through and how much they've changed because of it. And then the last two episodes are dedicated to how Shinji finally learns how to cope with what happens.

Any way you look at it, however, you should definitely watch the movie if you haven't already. Fuckin badass, lemme tell you.
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That's sort of the thing tho. Because it was so character driven, I kept waiting for some of the undesirable aspects of the characters to change (rei's soullessness, asuka's bitchiness, and shinji's spinelessness), but they never did, even though there were huge windows for them to do so. I kept wanting shinji to conclude that because he had the ability, protecting people was the right thing to do.
As for the last two episodes, I liked them, but felt that it wasn't an ending place. they were weird, sure, but it seemed as though shinji might have come to a conclusion of sorts. but the question is, what happens next?
In the movie, he jerks off to a comatose asuka and breaks the world. hooray!
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oh, and a wall to go with my text
>> Anonymous
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That's the entire point. Evangelion is a tragedy on an individual character level not just the whole apocalyptic world shattering level. Yes, the characters have chances to redeem themselves and change for the better, but if that happened we wouldn't have a tragedy. Evangelion parallels many classic Greek tragedies; Oedipus didn't change at the end and as a result we have a far more meaningful story. I'm glad Evangelion didn't sell out and go for a conventional ending. It's a testament to its greatness that we still debate it all these years later.

That said I also love RahXephon and everything it did exceptionally well including the redemtpion/love story angle.
>> Anonymous
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I suppose that's a point of personal preference. I always liked shakespere's comedies better than his tragedies.
That being said, I'm not opposed to sad endings. Cowboy Bebop is one of my favorite endings, even though its sad as hell. It's really the only way it could have ended.
But I don't think that was true for eva. They created these characters that were impossible not to care about. I cared, that's why I watched it all the way through. At the end, though, they seemed to abuse the characters that I cared about, with things that were really out of character. I don't know if its even meaningful, because it seemed so...pointless. but then again, oedipus. something to think about i guess.