The story of Two Watches and RahXephon — an #AniTwitWatches post

So I’m writing about RahXephon again. A few months ago, we finished up watching RahXephon as part of #anitwitwatches. What is #anitwitwatches, you might ask? Well, it’s a group watch led by Jon Spencer Reviews where we watch episodes of a show every Monday and tweet about them. I’ve been participating since 2019. It’s a […]

RahXephon does NOT equal Evangelion

I am writing this post in the hope of ending a needless and futile debate. I’m writing it knowing that I’m talking about the anime community, and unnecessary and futile debates have been their bread and butter since Harmony Gold first licensed Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross. But I’m writing it anyway because I feel like I’ve […]

The Cry of Hope at the end of RahXephon

Here I am at the end of RahXephon. Have you ever had a series that you watched at a pivotal time in your fandom, and it will always be a show that you love? For me, that is RahXephon. In a lot of ways, my relationship with this show has reached the stage where my […]

The Odds and Ends of RahXephon

I’m nearly at the end of talking about RahXephon. Well, maybe not. I’ll probably never stop talking about RahXephon, but I’ve spent three months on my blog largely focused on this show, and I would like to finish talking about it this month. That said, I have a lot of small things I really wanted […]

A boy, his pet rock and Makoto Isshiki’s Operation Downfall in RahXephon

If you asked me who my favorite character was in RahXephon, I would be torn between two choices. The first one is pretty obvious — Jin Kunigi. I wrote an entire post about his bluebird and the underlying tragedy of his daughter’s death. He is a character who is torn in a lot of different […]

The tragedy in Episode 19 of RahXephon

I don’t think I can write an entire series about RahXephon and skip out on talking about Episode 19, or really the tragedy that surrounds Hiroko Asahina. By necessity, I’m going to need to talk about spoilers here. Sure the fact that I’m saying that she is involved in a tragedy is a spoiler, but […]

The portrait of an artist as a young man in RahXephon

The longer I watch RahXephon, the more I become convinced that this is not a show about the human condition. Sure. There are elements in the show that speak to the human condition especially when you look at how the trauma of the war affected various characters, how Ayato reacts to being lied to and […]

If you meet the RahXephon on the road, do you kill it?

I’ve spent most of the morning trying to decide what I wanted to say about the most pivotal moment in RahXephon. If there is a single episode where the show turns from a sort of mecha show into something else entirely, it’s Episode 14 “The Boy in the Mirror/ Time after Time.” I think I’m […]

Is RahXephon a mecha show?

When I was writing about Evangelion, I said the angels don’t matter. Perhaps it could be better stated that the angels are only important to the story when they tell us more about the four main characters. For example, we have an angel who splits into two separate bodies because the writers wanted to put […]

Rejecting the letterboxed world in RahXephon

Way back at the end of December, when I started these posts, I said I would likely revisit the themes of RahXephon. Well here I am, one month and 11 episodes later, and I am back talking about the struggle between having the world that you want and having the world that is provided for […]