RahXephon (ラーゼフォン) occurs as science fiction anime television series about young Ayato Kaminthe, his ability to control a god-such as mecha called the RahXephon, & his inner journeying to buy a place by owning the world around him. There exists likewise the somewhat tweaked manga adaptation of the anime, created by Yutaka Izubuchi and BONES, with graphics from either Takeaki Momose.

A television series was by ADV Films, aired from either January 21-September 10, 2002, ran for Xxvi episodes, & Heptad volumes of cd were freed in VHS and DVD. In addition, there is a flick that summarizes a whole story, ingesting virtually all of a scenes from either the TV episodes, however likewise featuring a few recently shots. A anime was freed around Singapore by Odex. A manga is published around English in North America by VIZ Media, and these are published withwithin English in Singapore by Chuang Yi. A novel series is published inside English by DrMaster. The Playstation 2 game has been published in Japan just.

A story has been influenced per writings of James Churchward, writings that Ayato Kamina is familiar with.

Plot
A assumption of RahXephon is a fight between Human being, & pan-dimensional encroacher called the Mulians, short Mu (pronounced "moo", or even "moo-li-ans"). A Mu pop up to exist as individual; a just uniform physical difference seems to exist as their blue blood. A Mu foremost invaded in the late 1990's. Fallowing a bit of fight using Homo involving nuclear weapons, it around 2013 envelope a entire city of Tokyo and some outlying suburban arethe within a transdimensional sphere resembling Jupiter. These are known as Tokyo-Jupiter. This "absolute barrier" appears uncrossable, although it turns out that by owning plenty power & technology these are imaginable to cross & potentially kill it. A Mu control Tokyo, its citizens effectively severed from either a entire rest of a globe & led to think that the rest of the Globe has been destroyed. the barrier has a time dilation effect, with period in Tokyo-Jupiter passing a single sixth when convenient when a normal period. This becomes apparent around TERRA wrist watch that indicate 2 types of period: normal period & a period in Tokyo Jupiter. In the month 2027, Tokyo Jupiter has merely reached 2015.

Although RahXephon is normally located in the mecha category of anime, its "mechas" aren't mechanical at all. It is known as "Dolems". This title is from either a foremost 3 notes in the C major scale, "Do-Re-Mi". It as well sounds rather "golem" and the Italian word "dolere" (to hurt). Dolems come manufactured of clay & come animated by an unknown inflict resembling magic. Farther, from each one Dolem is attached to the Mulian. After the Dolem is destroyed, this Mulian is flushed too.

A underlying theme of RahXephon is one of music & healthy. Dolem pilots come known as "instrumentalists". Every of the Mulian Dolems has an Italian name from musical notation, like "Allegretto", "Falsetto", or even "Crescendo". A ultimate goal of the RahXephon is to "tune the world".

Characters
Independent article: Characters in RahXephon

This segment is a story equally told in the television series. A manga & flick come different within a few respects, including cutting & compositing characters.

At a beginning of RahXephon Ayato Kamina is a modest 17 season old dwelling within Tokyo. Non exactly the exemplary student, he enjoys his spare period painting & existence by using his class mates Hiroko Asahina and Mamoru Torigai. Ayato's mother Maya spends a lot of her period at operate, making his relationship by owning her like distant though however caring.

Reika Mishima, another class mate of Ayato's, meets him when you took an attack in Tokyo & leads him to the RahXephon. Haruka Shitow, an agent of a professional TERRA, requires Ayato & the RahXephon out of Tokyo to TERRA's base at Nirai Kanai in the southern islands of Japan.

At Nirai Kanai, Ayato assists fight Mu's Dolems by owning a RahXephon. He gets to understand a TERRA personnel, Megumi Shitow, Jin Kunugi, Elvy Hadhiyat, and Dr. Itsuki Kisaragi among them, & moves inside sustaining prof Rikudoh, Haruka's uncle. Quon Kisaragi, living with Dr. Kisaragi, occurs as girl that seems to part a select few of Ayato's abilities; she occurs as musician.

Ernst von Bahbem of the Bähbem Foundation pulls strings behind the curtain. Journalists & officials from either a Federation, the new UN, take an interest in the operations of TERRA.

Numerous of a characters keep close at h& personal relations (by blood or even adoption), friendly relationship and romanticistic relationships that come revealed when the series progresses. Occasionally of a two come deeply surprising, however the hints to the children potty typically become obtained earliest around the series & hidden in obviously sight.

Influences
RahXephon has numbers of information to the Mayan culture. A Dolem's control models appears to consist of the pilot wearing the helmet molded prefer the face from either the Mayan sculpture [http://www.ratware.plus.com/Travel/Mexico/LargePics/MayanSculpture.jpg]. Besides, a cities of the Mu contawithin graphics that appears to exist as Mayan in origin. Additionally, a date that a RahXephon awoke was December 21, 2012, which is a prevent of a Mayan long-count calendar (Based on data from a Mayans, December 21, 2012 marks a prevent of the Age of the Panther, & the transformation of Globe into the fifth & hone phase). Potentially a leader of the Mu is known as Maya. This is probably non coincidential since a series draws numerous of its information from either James Churchward's 1931 novel The Wasted Continent of Mu, the story just about an advanced ancient race from either a big island in the South Pacific which experienced sunk, similar to the legendary continent of Atlantis.

TERRA is depending around Kanai City in Nirai Island, a portion of the Ryukyu Islands. These pages use at times been known as as a paronomasia in Nirai-kanai. Around traditional Ryukyu beliefs Nirai-kanai, too known as "Nira-hara" or even "Niraasuku" is a place retired mazed in which the gods survive. These gods come believed to visit a islands of human being when you took certain religious festivals.[http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/022/en/study/022_e46.html] Within RahXephon, Mu is suggested to become the real-globe basis of the Nirai-kanai legend.

Comparisons to Neon Genesis Evangelion
Numerous fans compare RahXephon to Neon Genesis Evangelion (NGE), usually favourably, especially when regards a proactive nature and severity of the RahXephon protagonist & a clearer nature and severity of its lone ending. However there are besides blackball comparisons. A select few say that since RahXephon was manufactured many years when NGE, & because of similarities in the various protagonists & in the style & execution of cases, RahXephon is non when original or even innovative when NGE. It besides contend that a series visibly lacks NGE-director Anno's strong and psychology-filled writing. Of these aspect of RahXephon seen favourably by a select few is that it devotes less period to battles than NGE does, counterbalancing this by owning further character development, & an ensemble of characters that keep close at hand complex relationships.

A music inside RahXephon might likewise become within comparison a music in Neon Genesis Evangelion as they keep close at h& pleasantly similar rythmic system and instrumentation, though it is does'nt per equivalent composer. This will bring higher an additional issue when to whether or even does'nt it wasn't only a writer world health organization was influenced by Neon Genesis Evangelion, but a composer besides. within case thus nevertheless, it may sole become a music played when you took battle sequences & scenes which develop high tension because a music played when you took scenes which display calmness & relaxation come normally jazz & weak or even fusion authoritative which stand there is no similarities to people played in similar Neon Genesis Evangelion scenes.

Cultural commentary
A impermeable barrier between Tokyo and the rest of Japan with a Tokyo-Jupiter result may exist when interpreted as representational of the perceived ethnical barrier between the urbanised, ostensibly further Westernized primate city of Tokyo & the comparably other rural and traditional rest of the united states.

This analogy would produce a Mu into a representation of the Japanese look at of Westerners from either good prior to the Meiji Restoration to the reconstruction following World War II: similar anatomically except for even even the few minor variances, an invasive inflict, each compulsive & unfeeling, an at first technologically superior enemy that drives a Japanese (or inside RahXephon, homo) to postulate rapid advancement inside military technology, & a whipping boy utilized to inflame nationalistic (or inside RahXephon, non-Mu) jingoism.

The Dolems
For an explanation of what a Dolem is view a Plot section. This occurs as listing of personal Dolems featured within RahXephon:

Allegretto - a Dolem that defends the capital of Japan. It has big bird-birdlike wings & resembles the mechanical man female figure. These are respire to create the shield & attacks utilizing the head-mounted optical maser that pivots 360 degrees.

Alternate - Both 161 foot Dolems that, ab initio, appeared when 1. Spell split inside both, it trapped Ayato & Elvy within the mirrored phase space. Fallowing killing it it used to be that, RahXephon turns back period, bringing it back to life. These are defeated again by Vermillion.

Arpeggio - Appeared high inside orbit above Nirai Kanai. TERRA's attacks were unable to email it, when Arpeggio was away from their attack range. It emmitted the D-One Aria that lone Ayato & Quon may hear. It sent the babies the message from either Maya. RahXephon yet shoots it down using an arrow generated from either its palms.

Dotem - 82 foot free to roam weapons carried by Forzando.

Falsetto - The 393 feet tall Dolem that resembles the cuttle. It attempted to drink RahXephon.

Fortissimo - The mechanical man female figure that resembles the tuning fork. It attacks by owning high-frequency acoustic wave.

Forzando - The Dolem that is Triad miles hanker & acts such as the swimming fort. It carries Dotems in of it which may be launched intent on attack. It has functionless legs which are then easy destroyed per Vermillions. Its upper immune system was hidden in the clouds. It attached RahXephon around the cloud that it controlled.

Grave - A number one Dolem found outside Tokyo Jupiter. It's the squid-rather Dolem shaped rather the stringed instrument. It attacks from either underwater by having its tentacles & easy rips apart ships.

Larghetto - a 328 foot Dolem that fought RahXephon above the Pacific Ocean.

Largo - One.Sestet miles. A largest of all the Dolems. Its entire moo surface works as a elephantine beam weapon & might kill entire cities. These are defeated once these are encased around the barrier similar to the 1 that encases Tokyo Jupiter. Attached to Kuki.

Metronome - Guards a within of Tokyo Jupiter. Although it float inside evidently sight, virtually all population seem to exist as unaware that it is there. It tried to prevent RahXephon once it was lark autonomously, however failed.

Mezzoforte - 56 feet. Appears inside big cost & might crush fighter jets.

Mud Doll - "The life form that was living underground, beneath Bähbem's mansion. It grows by eating special rock made of a particular kind of mud. It is capable of attacking by using sound and able to resonate with Isshiki Makoto." -From either Orchestration Four booklet

Obbligato - The android Dolem that has sharp claws in its paws. Has the third arm around its chest. Attached to Mamoru.

Ritardando - The 951 foot Dolem that appeared in the Aurora Borealis. It appeared 14 years ago & destroyed Viii cities within Australia, killing numbers of population. By researching a D-One Aria wave shape, TERRA was a cappella to predict its path & attack pattern. When unsuccessfully trying to sop up RahXephon, it attempted the final attack, & RahXephon shattered it.

Schwarzer - Similar to Vermillion, its the black, piloted Dolem using "overtechnology". Looks prefer Vermilliin using there is no fins on its head or even hips.

Sforzando - The Dolem that was antecedently bonded to Forzando. It was found as a crystal inside Forzando's remains. When Itsuki gave a crystal to Sayoko as a Christmas gift, it grew & assimilated sustaining her & was suspire to control a atmospheric condition. It stimulated snow so an unbearable blizzard when it grew from either a crystal.

Staccato - Accompanies a high-upper-level Mulian officials at Hiranipra.

Vermillion - Unknown Dolem sustaining "overtechnology" built onto it for mortal pilots to control. Armed by using the rail gun and a wave-optical cannon known as a Baus-Ghazal. Mechanical man by using big wings in its head & a tail of its hips. These are carrier-launched and flies by an unknown method.

Vibrato - Dolem that resembles the girl wearing the hooded sweatshirt & is attached to Asahina. It attacks applying the sharply, tentacle-such as extensiin on its bottom. While these are smitten by RahXephinside, it is the causal agent of the city lights to turn on in a wave.

Vivace - The bird-birdlike Dolem by using the halo above its head. It engulfs RahXephon inside its wings, disappears into the void zone, & forces the Dolem-stone into RahXephon's (& Ayato's) mouth, inducing RahXephon to prevent virtually all functions & Ayato to hallucinate all about existence back within Tokyo Jupiter.

Super Robot Wars

A Rahxephon characters & mecha keep around appeared in the Extr Robot Wars series by Banpresto. It has therefore far l1 appeared inside one only game, Extremely Robot Wars MX. the Rahxephon occurs as Very mighty unit, using the power of a Super Robot however very much of the nimbleness of a Real Robot. This processed it highly fatal. Although non quite when overwhelming when a Zeorymer (which occurs as about imbalanced unit anyway), these are one of a further efficacious units in the game. Rahxephon's plot line when well got a major role in the games overall mixed plot, as the series' climax was likewise a climax of the game.