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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 962549" data-attributes="member: 130">I gotta second Evangelion and RahXephon. If you like one you will like the other...unless you're one of those people who gets infuriated when they see similarities between one series and another and screams "Ripoff!"There's some deliberate Eva homages in RahXephon (especially in the first ep, though you'd have to have seen all of Eva to catch them all) but goes a very different direction from an outwardly similar situation.  Both have teenage angst, and both have protagonists with parent issues as well as sharing giant robots fighting stuff, but how they go about it is very different.Be aware that you haven't seen Eva until you've seen the OVAs too. Death & Rebirth and End of Evangelion, in that order. They really help explain a lot of things that went unsaid or hinted at in the series because they ran out of money. If you like ambiguous endings, you may prefer the series ending but if you stick it out through the OVAs you end up with an equally ambiguous ending there. There's some argument in Eva fandom about whether or not the OVAs are the same ending as the series or not, sort of "alternate ending" vs. "extended ending". Personally, I think they are but it doesn't become really clear until you watch them back to back or do a second viewing. There's also director's cuts of the last few episodes prior to the final two, which are less vital to understanding the series than the OVAs, but still helpful for the added fifteen minutes or so that you only get glimpses of in the OVAs.There's supposed to be a movie coming out to expand on RahXephon's ending, but I haven't seen it and don't know if it's even out in Japan yet. The end credits for the last ep of the series include a note that production was set to begin in spring of 2003.</blockquote>

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