Reflections: What I’ve learned in 250 posts

Welp, here I am. This is the 250th post to go up on In Search of Number Nine. I’m not sure if I should celebrate or if I should cry or if I should just hang my head in shame. Well I mean, I am writing about this, so let’s just celebrate. Woo woo. I […]

Why we need to stop comparing RahXephon characters to Eva

One of the first things I ever wrote on this blog was about the common comparison between RahXephon and Evangelion. In a nutshell, people will often go with a simple straight-line comparison between the characters in the two shows. They’ll say Haruka is Misato, Quon is Rei, Megumi is Asuka, Itsuki is Kaji, and sometimes […]

School Days is complete and utter BS and it doesn’t matter — An #AniTwitWatches post

A long time ago (in 2006), I worked in a Blockbuster video store. Around the same time, Rian Johnson’s first movie “Brick” came out. When I watched that movie, I loved it, but I realized that the premise of the movie is ludicrous. On paper, the plot is the kind of high school power fantasy […]

The War of Misunderstandings in RahXephon

For the past few days, I’ve been struggling with how to explore the larger war in RahXephon. Unlike other shows, RahXephon seems to be difficult for me to break into discrete chunks. Partially, it’s because of how familiar I am with this series. I know how the themes of the war between the Earth and […]