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Ooooof. You're channel acronym sounds VERY similar to a fascist right-wing conspiracy theory "news" channel, aka One America News network, OAN.

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They way I look at him is he is the character that became aware of the stage and didnt like the character he was playing and went out of his way to make everyone aware of it and change the script, even if the the maincast had not caught on yet. It would have been poetic if we saw Schwartz's character be rewritten, recast and replaced by Alan Gabriel or turned into Alan Gabriel, a character who does whatever is needed to fit the narrative going forward, Doesnt care about the truth or have a need for the truth. Only to be haunted by the memories of who he used to be in big Duo.

Bro literally ascends the trappings of his mortal perspective. Returns to the world from this Nirvana with eyes unclouded with singular purpose "Kill God". Then in the crisis of his defeat and the surreal nature of his being/existence revealed he chooses reality for what its true value is; The small moments of love he felt for his family and his daughter who he never had the ability to understand or come to terms with. I couldn't help but fight tears watching him pick himself up with the mantra "Can I see her one last time?"

I agree, feel like the ending was miss understood and the ending was a not continusous loop with the reset but a reboot and all the characters are in a better place than they were before including the director. If anything the ending leaves the story in a happy ending and honestly opening to a future continuation (if that happened the series timeline can be started with a soft reboot and characters can continue forward.)

The crew of second earth like every one on that planet is contaminated to a maximal or mimimal quantity by the blue so that made them insane to attack Miyagi the sane human leader. I like Yuji but he is just a blue in human form just a milimeter from being like Tony. Gaia or whatever it is its appellation is a pathogen infesting the planet inhibiting humans or any intelligent being that harms its hosts that it parasitizes. If this thing is intelligent or just running on mechanical instinct I do not know even if it is natural or artificial eludes me. Gene-steal infestation or dead space marker signal insanity with necromorph outbreaks is the closest example I know akin to it.

Big kiss for this amazing serie of retrospectives to my childhood anime

Raul’s story is a fucking tragedy and it kills me how underrated he is 😭

Pino is the cutest! And she brought joy in every scene she was in, which was critical in an otherwise bleak setting.

Honestly hated it. The wordlbuilding was more interesting than theme-wanking.

the ironic thing here is that evangelion will eventually do the same with rebuild, basically escapist fantasy with everyone living happy ever after with the msot escapist ending (a complete reset with 3.0+1.0).

Would still recommed slay the princess if you want a more unsettling/weird soundtrack.

Almost 5 and a half hours of solid analysis. That is impressive. The fact that the show still makes very little sense even with that analysis is actually also impressive in its own way. Looking forward to your next video and thank you.

This was a really genuine and very pleasant series of videos. I'd never heard of Rahxephon outside of it's mention/inclusion in some Super Robot related material I saw. I never thought much of it, but hearing your thoughts really makes me want to check it out. Once again I appreciate that you don't hyper fixate on the negative like a lot of other videos. It feels sometimes like people are very eager to write things off as either terrible or fantastic. The fact that you go over that it's flawed, and even frustrating at points, but it still has artistic merit is really refreshing. I believe that kind of approach leads to more genuine, and ultimately more enjoyable, discussion around things. Thank you for your hard work! I'm excited to see go over in the future.

Nobody tell him about the weird sex stuff in the uncut version.

People might want to look up the artwork for this show.

Thank you for these! I personally cannot stand a broken story or fumbled characters and themes so my opinion of this series is pretty low. That said it does have a strange appeal that lead me to try watching it again despite it committing writing sins that would get most other series blacklisted. There was a ton of potential with this shoes concept at least and it is genuinely sad that never flowered.

I always loved this show for being so experimental and esoteric , with a bunch of awesome fighting robots. but one thing always got me. If the event (universal amnesia) was 40 years ago, that makes him (and everybody else) basically 60 or 70 years old. The storyline would make much more sense with the 10-year memory Gap

I've always found it funny and interesting that in SRWs, Big-O is one of the featured mech that gets to interact with all the other series that has similar themes about existentialism. The Super robot series might be colorful but they have always been bleak and grim hence the existence of mighty magical robots powered by the infinite will of the pilot and some "dark energy source" that resembles the concept of nukes. Even with Go-Nagai's Mazinger series, the mech genre has always been dark and that humanity has questioned their existence against the vastness of the universe. Getter Robot would also have the same theme of building power only to cast or create what would be a universe eater. The influence even reached the more "realistic" mech animes like Votoms in which there is a super AI capable of managing an entire galaxy or Gundam in which humans through robots and wars will spell humanity's reset once it reach the peak of human evolution amd peak of technological innovation paved by war. Even Metal Gear has these themes albeit more political. I think Japanimation in itself respects the dreams of a future full of powerful machines that can make the work in our life easier. But such power can be daunting to the hands of the imperfect humanity. The discovery of Nuclear energy is testament to this and Japan itself. There has always been an anti-war and anti-nuclear messages in most of these mech animes. And while Big-O only has this as a plot device, the same concept remains where when a time comes that a big machine weapon becomes a necessity then the world will be meeting its end.

Its been 16 parts? Well, thats... a lot of attention.

One thing that occured to me watching this vid is, did Ayato and Haruka go to the same school or not? In the after credits scene where we see them meet it seems like they don't, but earlier in the series I think its mentioned they did. Small point, but I think indicative of the lack of forward thinking by the writers.

You can see what they were doing with the Meso American imagery, they saw how subtle and on the nose references to religion worked for Evangelion amd tried their hand and failed miserably especially by comparison

Dornkirk biggest sin was hubris.

I think timbre is pronounced with a flatter “a” sound, like the “a” in Baben. At least that’s how I reconcile with it being a French word that I can never hope to pronounce properly. Pronouncing it like “tamper” sounds appropriately American. Also fate can also be a positive theme. Where instead of the struggle being about coming to terms with a cruel fate, the struggle can be about improving oneself in order to accept an important fate and the responsibility that comes with it. Probably in the format of a coming-of-age hero story.

Your point on the romantic relationships is spot on. It is honestly amazing so many problems with the writing in story and themes made it to the final draft. Obvious problems no less.

It makes so much sense, that the creator of Yandere Simulator is a huge fan of RahXephon.

I don't subscribe to the notion that the reset reflects the nature of "life going on". Life going on would be taking the good with the bad and moving forward, not going back and hoping for a better roll of the dice. It's easy to imagine how to solve a problem if you have the option to start over. The real judgement of one's character is how they deal with the hand they are dealt. A far bolder story to me would be one where the person with the power to reset the world is convinced NOT to, even when everything is seemingly lost. The whole narrative revolves around people dwelling on the intangible phantom of an unknown past. A wholly better moral to me would have been learning to let go of that past and moving forward. To take account of what was lost as a reminder not to squander what remains in the here and now.

Another thing I never understood is why none of the cast questions why Quon says such strange things or what her role at Terra is?

I always wonder, how did Haruka even know where to find Ayato in episode one?

I'd only watched this one once back in the day and found it disappointing. Finally revised a couple years ago, and while I don't love it this was better than I remembered. Armitage and Ross are still great characters, which help carry it, but other than their daughter I never felt much investment in the new cast.

I watched the movie cut of this over a hundred times back in the day, loved it, but wasn't aware or able to watch the OVA version until much later. Always glad to see someone covering it in any positive way, rather than immediately dismissing it as I've seen tons of reviewers do. A pretty flawed but still very enjoyable series imo.

I love blue gender it’s one of my all time favorite anime’s. I’ve watched atleast a handful of dozens of times. It still aggravates me that they didn’t make at least one more episode after let me I mean I know yuji was able to take control of the entire blue and ultimately take back the earth but still would have been nice to get the last part what if the blue sorta helped rebuild earth and through the process the blue get fed up for being controlled and rebelled and it was up to yuji and Marlene’s kid to try and fix everything again. Because we all have to remember everything evolves including the B cells or better known as the blue cells.

My favorite anime review channel; the Rahxephon channel

As the one who retuned the world, I always assumed that future/new Ayato kept some admin privileges so to speak. Both memories from the previous world, and powers over the new one. Memories carrying over might be a possibility, considering Baben went through a great deal of effort to live long enough to see the RahXephon system activated. If no memories retained whatsoever, what would even be the difference between the Mu and the Humans? Just retune the world so they’re both living on the same planet, without any nasty history between them. The ending is too free to end in a perfect “happily ever after” that it lacks punch. The climax about rejecting Reika Mishima’s machinations could be interpreted as rejecting his fate as a Mulian to retune the world for Mulians, though this one is much more of a stretch. I think the weakest part about the world retuning, assuming it’s known by Ayato that the dimension merge will destroy everything otherwise, is that we don’t get a glimpse into how the world is retuned. A lot of stories with an innate conflict between two peoples have a hard time creating a good solution, but it can be done. The Hero is Dead was working itself towards some sort of tragic conclusion before I stopped reading, one of the Aquarion shows (Evol?) had this too, where the lives of two groups of people are mutually exclusive because of some terrible fate. Either make a tough decision and doom one group, or strike a flawed compromise and try to live with a tumultuous status-quo that might end up dooming both groups. Sometimes rebelling against fate itself is the answer, be it overthrowing god or making a new world, or maybe the characters try to innovate their way to a brighter future, like how we avoided the Malthusian crisis. RahXephon could have headed towards a tough decision like this, and doing so would have fleshed out more of Baben’s intentions, and of how this creations worked. Maybe the intention would be for an Olin representing each species would fight, and the winner would create a world for only their people, but Ayato and Quon would choose peace and retune the world together. Ignore the Oedipal implications.

Megazone isn't obscure, just old.

My thoughts on the relationship between Eva and RahXephon are similar to my thoughts on A New Hope and The Force Awakens. The real problem isn’t that it copied Eva, it’s that it didn’t copy Eva ENOUGH, or more accurately it didn’t copy the things that were worth copying. For example, a number of the Dollum battles are visually very similar to some of the Angel battles, but they lack the elements that gave those Angel battles a sense of tension. Additionally, I think Eva’s small cast size would have been more worthwhile emulating, in comparison to having their own “Rei character”, just for the sake of imitation.

I think the final speech was about art affecting the creator, how it can speak to its author(in this case literally) and help to go through personal crisis

One of my favorite anime. Its some Eva and some AOT kinda mashed together and it's great.

Another example of RahXephon taking inspiration from Eva in a totally thoughtless way. Rei serves a purpose in the plot prior to instrumentality by piloting Unit zero. She might talk in an abnormal, but most of what she says to other characters makes sense in context. They missed all that though, and just decided that "Eva had a strange supernatural pale girl who ended the world. Lets do that too, but make her even MOOOORE strange!!"

I remember really liking this show when I first saw it, but every time I’ve tried to rewatch it, I always get caught at around episode 5. And then I just skip to Blue Friend because it was the one time I felt completely engrossed in everything that was happening. And I think the reason for that is despite Asahina’s lack of screentime, even with that one episode (but also the preceding bit back in Tokyo Jupiter where everything starts to unravel for her) you know enough to understand what she’s going through. And it’s arguably the one time where the show’s insistence on keeping the viewer in the dark worked to its advantage. Because you immediately empathize with this girl. And it’s heartbreaking. Also while I think it would’ve been cool for her to get more screentime, I think the lack of it works to the drama. Because as she realizes, her whole life was a lie. There’s nothing built for her outside of Ayato because she was a tool to nurture him. He was the only real thing in her life.

She was one of the few characters that stood out for me in this bland, overly large cast. Granted, I haven't watched this show since it first came to the US.

Do it. I know you want it too. Mirai Nikki; The Future Diary Open then pandoras box. Embrace the pretentious schlog. Go down into the abyss of convolution and rise about it. xD

Even though people say this an Eva copy show. It’s a really good mecha anime I loved it the music, the mecha and monster designs and animation are phenomenal and a must watch as it is a very underrated anime

Given the show’s huge flaws, it’s shocking how universally positive and uncritical reviews/discussion were for this in the period it came out. Shows how different “geekdom” was back then, and what they were willing to accept/overlook. I think if it came out today the reception would be way more negative.

I think the Raul and Pino storyline is far-fetched. He didn't do anything, knowing Pino was to dispose as a cogito-infected autorave and at the same time being the chef of security. Plus he didn't look for Pino after she left the city, although he personally witnessed it. He didn't care about Pino at all...untill he saw MCQ show. For some reason he saw her with Vincent, as if he "stole" her. Confusing...On the other side Pino's attitude towards Raul makes more sense to me.

You are fully right about the design. Initially he looked much more mature, but his design was changed to what we see (one of biggest changes actually) Here I am referring to the Ergo Proxy artbook At first i even felt sorry for him, because he literally created 2 women and both left, and moreover to the same guy, but after rewatching Ergo Proxy it seems to me that he is just creepy

It’s like the Matrix. But one where all humans died in the Final War. The machines were lost, without purpose, and could only lament their creators deaths. All they had were their memories.

Man just writing this comment at 2 am as I finished the anime 30 minutes ago. It was worth the loss of sleep of though. Also the first anime I've ever seen besides the Studio Ghibli movies. I really loved this from beginning to end. It reminded me of several different sci fi franchises. Yuji and Marlene's relationship might be my favorite in all of fiction. And that's probably due to how it develops through the entire season. They definitely play with quite a few themes in this anime. One such theme is the loss and regain of one's humanity. Soldiers on second earth are trained to completely ignore and even downright kill civilians if they get in the way. It does seem kind of odd as with a dwindling population, sacrificing the people that are left doesn't make that much sense to me, but whatever. It's fascinating how Marlene though seems to regain her humanity thanks to Yuji, as well as Yuji's descent into madness thanks to his b cells controlling him. And of course, the action is really cool. The animations are crisp, they kind of remind me of youtube clips of the pokemon show. I know somebody else said that this looks like Starship troopers. Sure, at the surface it does. But beyond fighting bugs and even some of the soldier uniforms looking exactly like the ones from ST, I don't see a lot of similarities. As you've said though, it's not perfect. I think my biggest complaint is that it really needed a second season. Im not sure if they weren't allowed to make another one, or if they chose to, but I felt like I had mental whiplash with how fast everything was happening. A second season would've been perfect to let the plot breath. I'm sure there a lot of people that disagree with me on that though. Another thing this reminds me of a little is Starcraft BW. Just in that I was kind of confused if the Blue were a creation of humans, or if the Earth created them. I'm pretty sure it was the latter. But anyway I got a strange bit of nostalgia because I experienced a similar feeling with Starcraft BW being a little confused at first about how the Zerg came about. One of the terran missions suggests that the Zerg might have been created by the confederacy as a weapon. My second biggest complaint is the quality of the sound effects. I think there were a lot of stock sounds being used. And I think the soundscape for the show could've been a lot better if they had more original sound effects. Music and voice acting was fantastic though. The music starts becoming more industrial, louder, and bopping whenever a blue was about to approach. And then ominous atmospheric music outside of combat. It reminded me of video games that do the same thing when you encounter enemies. I can't believe I wrote a whole essay on something like this so late in the morning. But I guess I just liked this series that much. I love it, even with it's biggest flaw of not being long enough. And I'll probably watch it all again soon.

I loved both shows *because* they were so different from each other

Great video. Despite my love for the series, i agree that Knives and Legato could've been more fleshed out(mostly due to manga being unfinished) i do think Legato is still quite effective and has air of mystery that i find intriguing in the anime, despite not having detailed backstory, but it is somewhat subtly hinted, but not fully realized. However, i disagree with every villain needing to be relatable. Understandable, maybe, but not outright justifying their actions. Frieza is iconic, yet he is the most pure evil of a villain he can be.