Eva fans, your thoughts on RahXephon

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Postby Radio_Free_Mars [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:12 pm

Simply put Eva is a great, awsome, and then some. I have only seen 5 ep of Rahxephon, so most won't care now, but the series seems a little too much like eva. So eva wins hands down.Image

don't hate me i'm just posten so I can use a costom avatar.

Originally posted on: 06-May-2003, 03:44 GMT

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Postby GandalfsWhisper [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:12 pm

Radio_Free_Mars wrote:don't hate me i'm just posten so I can use a costom avatar.


just a tip, you can post just to get an avatar, just don't say that your doing so.

Originally posted on: 06-May-2003, 04:24 GMT

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Postby elfwannabe [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:12 pm

i really want to know how raxephon ripps off eva. i heard people say that and it doesn't fly with me. raxephon was awesome, but it wasn't as ambigous as eva. but i loved both

Originally posted on: 12-May-2003, 18:44 GMT

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Postby Marshall Banana [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:12 pm

Here's my deal on Rahxephon:

Ok, about a year ago or so I bought some Rah episodes on VCD. At the time my computer couldn't play them and my DVD was definitely not compatable. Recently I've upgraded computers and now have the chance to play the VCDs. So yesterday I checked out episode one. It made me want to watch Eva and I can't watch another episode of Rahxephon now. Today I gave it a second chance, but still, it draws me to want Eva.

Note: I bought the VCDs before it was liscensed. I do not support bootleggers.

Originally posted on: 13-May-2003, 00:18 GMT

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Postby saiyajin prince [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:12 pm

I guess because of how similar it is to Eva. I only saw the first 4 eps so I can't really say but from that 4 from what I saw, it made think "hey I've seen this before....."

Originally posted on: 13-May-2003, 00:25 GMT

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Postby elfwannabe [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

im really having trouble findgin similarities between raxephon and eva. i've seen the whole eva series twice, and i own the first raxhephon dvd, and im getting nothing. the art styles are very different, the plot lines are different, adn the characters are completely different. they both have big robots (if you consider the evas robots) adn the both have aliens. that's about it

Originally posted on: 14-May-2003, 13:29 GMT

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Postby GandalfsWhisper [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

angels aren't aliens.

Originally posted on: 14-May-2003, 18:28 GMT

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Postby elfwannabe [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

GandalfsStudent wrote:angels aren't aliens.


oh my god, fine they're extra-terrestials. happy? thay came from outer space

Originally posted on: 29-May-2003, 12:10 GMT

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Postby ToxicToast [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

Umm all of them did not come from space... I mean the one they found in like lava pit thing wasnt from space.

Originally posted on: 29-May-2003, 17:40 GMT

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Postby GandalfsWhisper [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

do we know where the Angel's actually came from?

Originally posted on: 29-May-2003, 17:58 GMT

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Postby ToxicToast [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

Hmmm I dont think they ever say we do exactly know where they come from...

Originally posted on: 29-May-2003, 22:13 GMT

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Postby Shin-seiki [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

I wonder whether all the Angels were in a dormant, embryonic state like the one in Magma Diver (Sanda-sumpin-or-other?) and were somehow stirred up by 2I; I think people would have noticed if critters that big were running loose all along.
Also, I find it very interesting that the Magma one is found as a humanoid embryo (rather like the Adam embryo), but once it awakes it quickly morphs into a weird, invertebrate form; I would guess that the wild, almost unlimited potentiality of form that the Angels possess is somehow related to their partaking of the Fruit of Life.

Originally posted on: 29-May-2003, 22:55 GMT

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Postby saiyajin prince [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

The fruit of like is basically their S2 which gives them unlimited energy. When you say humanoid, what you mean? The Adam what we saw was from 2I, he was just sleeping, and wasn't just "born" or whatever the word is.

Originally posted on: 29-May-2003, 23:22 GMT

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Postby Shin-seiki [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

saiyajin prince wrote:The fruit of like is basically their S2 which gives them unlimited energy. When you say humanoid, what you mean? The Adam what we saw was from 2I, he was just sleeping, and wasn't just "born" or whatever the word is.

By humanoid I mean it looks more or less human, with two arms, two legs etc.

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but then it turns into something completely different:

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Actually, the Angel looks more obviously human than Adam does:

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or at least more fully developed.

Originally posted on: 30-May-2003, 00:42 GMT

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Postby Joe24 [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:14 pm

ToxicToast wrote:Hmmm I dont think they ever say we do exactly know where they come from...


According to the Evangelion faqs at www.evabeast.com, the Angels (aside from Lillith) were "born" from Adam in a similar sense to the Lillims (humans) being "born" from Lillith. I don't know if the show ever clues us in on this, but it does seem to make sense, at least to me.

Originally posted on: 30-May-2003, 05:43 GMT

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Postby saiyajin prince [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:15 pm

Shin-seiki wrote:Actually, the Angel looks more obviously human than Adam does:

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or at least more fully developed.


That's Adam after the humans reduced him to embryonic state, who knows if he looks the same way in his own natural embryonic state. After all, Adam is an angel, he doesn't have to look like a human.....

Originally posted on: 30-May-2003, 10:08 GMT

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Postby arimil [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:15 pm

I think Evangelion is much better, but that is just my opinion.

Originally posted on: 30-May-2003, 16:51 GMT

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Postby TK [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:15 pm

I love them both but i prefer to watch RahXephon if i had the choice between them

Originally posted on: 30-May-2003, 17:51 GMT

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Postby GandalfsWhisper [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:15 pm

Joe24 wrote:According to the Evangelion faqs at www.evabeast.com, the Angels (aside from Lillith) were "born" from Adam in a similar sense to the Lillims (humans) being "born" from Lillith. I don't know if the show ever clues us in on this, but it does seem to make sense, at least to me.


but in eva mythogolgy how were human's born from Lilith.

Originally posted on: 30-May-2003, 17:54 GMT

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Postby Orin_Quon [ANF] » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:15 pm

MDWigs wrote:Then name me another anime series that has done something similar. Name me a series that contains the breadth of ideas that Eva has (old ideas they may be) and combines them all into a unified story.


Utena.

Originally posted on: 30-May-2003, 22:58 GMT


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