Raxephon
#1 : Threshold
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125 minutes
English/Japanese
English Subtitles
03/25/2003
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Raxephon
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I don't care. I just don't care. Whatever they were trying to do with this scene they just HAD to know that it wasn't proper. I mean, come on! Look at it! While Joel might try to defend it, and Jerry might try to defend it, I know that there's only ONE thing that position signifies and frankly it's one I'd rather not have to imagine anyone taking, not even a giant sexless robot. That just makes me think that there's a giant SEXED robot out there and he's got plans for poor Raxephon's tail port. Which is pronounced Ra-se-fon instead of Rocks-ZE-fon like I would have guessed. Maybe my skills at the English language were temporarily put on hold when I was first introduced to this show. I remember it well, staring incredulously at the wallscroll situated right above Jerry's computer. There it was, Raxephon, a giant robot and a rather impressive looking one at that. And what was he doing? Why, coming out of a giant Faberge egg! |
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I am not shitting you, though sometimes I might wish I was. Raxephon the giant robot does indeed come out of a Faberge egg for reasons I don't think I'd be able to communicate to you even if I knew what they were myself. And now that Joel's abandoned me with his long harange about how he likes how an anime can try very hard to "create a persistant world" or something like that with inventive names for episodes and the horrid overuse of the word "suffuse" in EVERY FREAKING PREVIEW I'm all by myself in laying the hate down on this show (Though Joel took it upon himself to correct me. Apparently he wasn't defending Raxephon, but refering more to the excellent Cowboy Bebop, which is perfectly acceptable). Listen to me. I hate giant Faberge eggs and, by association, I hate the giant robots that come out of them. It also makes me really mad that the characters in this show have pretty blatant counterparts in Evangelion. Kamina Ayato (or possibly the other way around. Dubbing studios can never seem to decide which way they wanna use people's names) is the kind of loner-kind of shy "I'm almost Shinji but at least I've got a more solid head on my shoulders and I've actually got a friend or two" character, rescued from the alien "Invaders" by Haruka "I could be Misato except I'm a little more cute than shapely but I can be just as ditzy when the situation calls for it, also I'm a drunk, like that was a surprise. On top of that Dave has some obession with calling me a pirate that's really weird and he keeps leaving messages on my answering machine" Shitow. |
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Anyway, this Haruka tells him that the Tokyo he's been living in has sealed itself off from the rest of the world inside a giant shell that looks like Jupiter. Yes Jupiter, the planet. That's what I could understand anyway. Then she takes him back to a giant boat that's kind of analogus to the van-base David Hasselhoff would drive Kit into in Knight Rider. It's here that he meets the pink-haired emotionaless "I'm like Rei Ayanami in that I'm pretty emotionless only with a little bit of some retarded romance drama about robot computers in the form of woman who want to learn about love and ends up embarassing my 'master' because I want to get naked all the time" girl whose name I can't remember. Fortunately he's whisked away from her rather quickly, but not before having to get dangerously close to her bosom while doing up her vest, and being embarassed by her total lack of common decency. Of course, pinky is unaware that wanting to be naked while having your hair cut isn't exactly proper decorum, but fuck that! This is ANIME! Next stop is the house where Ayato will be staying. Here he meets Megumi "I'm like Asuka because I'm loud, annoying, selfish and rude, though probably a little less of a TOTAL PSYCHO, also my sister is Haruka so I'm actually REALLY different than my counterpart" Shitow. Megumi warms up a little faster than Asuka did, so at least there's a BIT of a change here. But that's a future episode kind of thing I guess. Then Ayato meets an older man who doesn't actually seem to be a carbon copy of anyone, at least...nobody from Evangelion anyway. I haven't seen every anime out there. |
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But this is quickly ameliorated to fans of the show because we learn that Ayato is moving in with not only the Misato clone (who's also a sexy pirate in my book) AND the Asuka clone. If things go as planed Asuka-II and Rei-II will also be pilots of the crazy looking giant robots who, by the way, except for Raxephon have designs I don't really care for. I mean, they're just WAY too weird for me. They all just float around with no arms and have these weird doll masks. Though you'll find no argument from me about robots with electric halos that shoot lasers. I might be harshing on it a bit too much, but Raxephon has a lot to harsh on. I don't like it when shows purport themselves to be serious and then just take these huge 180s by introducing these goofy whiney characters. Haruka has an absolutely amazing twenty second fight scene in the very first episode. However in the THIRD episode she picks up a cat and says in her whiney voice to the much younger Ayato "Can I keep him? Please please can I keep him?" This is not to be expected behavior from a woman who not long ago beat the hell out of three men twice her size. Unless there's an off screen lobotomy then I have no interest in crap like that. I can't respect a pirate that's not tough.** |
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