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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4477068" data-attributes="member: 3887">I liked the way RahXephon took what was uncomfortable, paranoid, and neurotic in NGE and made it almost... lyrical. That was a neat trick. I just prefer NGE for what I take to be it's premise and central motif: a) a bunch of dysfunctional people, including kid robot pilots save a self-loathing humanity from a fate that probably would have made them all better and b) bulls*t science is really bullsh*t mysticism at its core. The show seems to poke deliberate fun at act of explaining the fantastic (instead of the common 'magic is really science', we get 'science is really convoluted mysticism... no wait, maybe I'm just really sad'). No argument here. Though I did like End of Evangelion...Also, some recommendations:Last Exile is wonderful, Miyazaki-esque war story about young airship pilots, with great English dubbing.Tengan Toppa Guren Laggan is a giant robot show that will have you shouting expletives at the screen, in a good way.The Melacholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is pure genius. Macross Frontier is almost finished, and it's a terrifically animated distillation of all things essentially Macross; transforming space fighters, pop idols, and love triangles. Oh, and saving the world -- so to speak -- from aliens. Code Geass (series 1 & 2) is an unholy amalgam of heavily political giant robot anime (a la Gundamn), V for Vendetta, and Gossip Girl (despite the fact it's a war story starring a masked revolutionary, it's also partly set in a boarding school full of beautiful rich kids). There's also some Evangelion-esque metaphysical hoo-ha thrown in for good measure. I love it.</blockquote>

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