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[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Yeah, RahXephon was kind of a mess, and its incessant, half-baked rehashing of Eva was largely to blame.

[Chaos Is the Key]

Somewhere I once saw an AMV type thing that had both openings going at the same tim side by side, and they were quite close, even down to the timing of the scence changes.

[ShlupQuack]

Everytime I turn on RahXephon I'm like "Hey, Evangelion's on." And my husband says "What? Change the channel. Stupid anime geek." I like RahXephon though.

[Roto13]

I'm going to say one thing I hate about RahXephon. The movie. It sucks.

[Nasarian Altimeros]

At least the movie had a semi-comprehendible ending with the antagonists finally being given a decent motive.

How they manage to make the original ending in Rahxephon worse than Evangelion's is beyond me.

[Roto13]

The ending of Evangelion was awesome. Only two people left to repopulate the earth.

The RahXephon movie was just a rehash of the series. My god. I don't think they even bothered to re animate most of it. I was bored out of my mind.

[edczxcvbnm]

I have said here many a time that RahXephon is what Evangelion should have been. Evangelion for got to tell this thing called a story. It had a story but it really didn't tell it. RahXephon on the other hand tells you the whole story. There are some parts I wish they would have elaborated on but I wasn't retarded as all get out to the point where they made a movie to attempt to explain what was going on.

[JKTrix]

The RahXephon movie didn't attempt to explain anything, it was a sort of 'alternate story'. A lot of the scenes that were the same in the movie do seem like they were taken straight out of the show, which I was disappointed in at first as well. I think the Japanese-only PS2 game even takes a different spin on the story.

RahXephon is not a show that you can fully grasp and enjoy by casually watching. You have to switch on and notice the little details that will explain most things (if not everything). I don't understand how folks can say that it's a 'mess', perhaps some elaboration will enlighten me. The ending wasn't nonsensical, it makes sense if you've followed the story closely enough.

From the general tone of my experience with Evangelion, it seems quite a bit depressing as a whole. They kept talking about how humanity is so pathetic or whatever, got on my NERVs a bit. Eva from what I've seen was definitely more of a psychology and philosophy lecture than a piece of entertainment. It's something you also have to pay close attention to in order to grasp fully, but it's very different from RahXephon in that manner.

If there's stuff about RahXephon you don't get, I wouldn't mind answering questions as best as I can.