RahXephon

RahXephon (ラーゼフォン) is a Anime Japan board of Science-fiction in 26 episodes 24 minutes and a 120 minute old film, produced by the Studio Bones in 2001. In Japan, the Televised series was diffused in 2002 on Fuji TV.

Synopsis

Kamina Ayato, young person student with Tokyo-Jupiter, leaves like the every day to the school with his/her friends: Asahina and Mamoru. Following the accident of their subway, Ayato realizes that Tokyo-Jupiter is in war. Guided by its song, Ayato finds nose with nose with Reika, a girl of its age. With first crossed their glances, Ayato seems to learn its name.

Fleeing the hostility of the engagements, two young people arrive in an apparently secret room and mystic where a gigantic egg is. While the engagements make rage and that two Golems (made clay creatures) come in reinforcement to defend the city, Reika takes again its song. Whereas Ayato seems carried by this song, the egg hatches and reveals RahXephon, a gigantic Humanoïde, which puts a term at the engagements in an expeditious way.

The following day, Ayato is disturbed by the events of the day before. He remembers some images: RahXephon, Golems, a combat… But nothing is yet clear in its spirit. Precisely, Haruka, a strange unknown factor, goes proposes in Ayato of all to explain to him…

Characters

Hero

Ayato Kamina : 17 years old, it grew in Tokyo-Jupiter, before finding catapulted apart from this same city. Recruited by Terra, he will learn with the wire time to bind to the others and to create relations. He will approach Haruka, the girl who will have made it leave Tokyo and who will have already known itself " exit ensemble" there is that 14 years, before the installation of the Jupiter system which will have separated them all two. The muliens benefitted from it to erase the memory of this one and the remainder population to remain it wedged over there. (SPOILER) Lastly, it is not Mulien as have could it believe when TERRA will find at his place a Mû phase in its blood but this phase disappears when it reaches Yol-téotol and reaches under Rah and is transformed into " Rahxephon sacré" , it will inondra the world of music and sound.

Muliens

Quon Kisaragi : Adoptive sister of Kisaragi Itsuki, this teenager engoncée in her combination of survival expresses herself énigmatiquement, in obscure and poetic sentences. Calling Ayato “Ollin systematically”, wished by many men of Terra, it is the subject of strange experiments and has an important place in the conflict opposing Mu and Terra.

Maya Kamina : The mother of Ayato is it responsible for the military section for Driven. Mysteriously appeared with the foot of temple of Kamikakushi with Quon a few years before, it was adopted by Rikudo Shôgo. Dark and determined, its objectives will remain secret throughout the series.

Hiroko Asahina : Friend of college of Ayato, this voluntary young girl will find it when this one returns on Tokyo-Jupiter. Fleeing with the young man on ground, it will be caught up with there by its past of Mulienne. It will realize really of the feelings which it has for Ayato while leaving with him. And it will be to kill by Ayato when Ayato kills Dolem " Vibrato" because its instrumentalist is only otre that Hiroko.

Mamoru Torigai : Friend of Ayato and Hiroko, this young man calm and posed has strong feeling for Asahina and is in fact placed high in the Mulienne army. Arriving on Nirai Kanai shortly after the death of Hiroko, it will espionnera the intrigues of Ayato, and well quickly, will want to face it to be avenged for him which forever known to apprehend the feelings of Hiroko.

Land, members of Terra

Haruka Shitow : Having lived her childhood with Tokyo-Jupiter, where it fell in love, and reciprocally, from Kamina Ayato when they were all the two 14 years old, this 29 year old young woman was separated from her native world at the time of the arrival of Driven, and then grew on Earth, under the supervision of her uncle Rikudo Shôgo, whereas Ayato remains blocked in Tokyo-Jupiter. Appreciated by the team of Terra, where she works as an agent of the information, she will find and develop new feelings in love for Ayato, which she will seek to protect at any price.

Jin Kunugi : The commander de Terra, to the design close to Gotô ( Patlabor ), carries in him heavy last. Under the orders of Kuki Masayoshi, it had to launch the nuclear weapon during an attack during the first war against Mu, when it worked for national defense, thus killing out of the million innocent, of which his/her own girl. Apparently cold and distant, it will show with the wire episodes a more human aspect towards its subordinates.

Shirô Wasari : Big boss of Terra, Wasari appears sporadically, preferring to delegate the power to Jin. Having played a crucial role for the installation of the drama, he prefers observant being of the outcome of this one. Some call it also Dr.Kamina.

Itsuki Kisaragi : Former boyfriend of Haruka, the scientific leader of Terra deals with research on RAhXephon. Always obliging, he gets along with all the team of Terra including Makoto Isshiki, however haï by the others, which he knows since childhood. He has a mark of birth similar to that of Ayato.

Megumi Shitow : Little sister of Haruka, this teenager will guide Ayato in her discovery of the world at the time of her arrival on Nirai Kanai. Energetic and generous, Megumi will be able to be erased by discovering that the two boys with which it will fall successively in love (Sôichi and Ayato) are enthusiast the other one than it.

Makoto Isshiki : Sent by alliance to supervise the intrigues of Terra, arrogant Isshiki is well quickly made hate of all the base, except Itsuki, his/her friend of childhood. Taking the orders of Terra following the reference of Jin, it will start the outcome of the drama what will lead it to its loss.

Sôichi Yagumo : Opened, smiling and available, the right-hand man of Jin will take little by little an increasing importance within Terra, and will have to make cornéliens choices whereas the conflict intensifies with Mu. It is the character being considered nearest to Ayato character question. It have a little the same vision of the relations between human. Lastly, it will be made kill leave Ayato towards the oddment.

Hadhiyat Elvy : Captain of the flotilla flying of Terra, this friendly young woman at the height temperament and better of Haruka will have much evil to accept than Ayato becomes essential to the combat and takes all the risks with Xephon. When it apprendera that Ayato is Mulien, those against which it fights permanently, it will have evil to accept it… but this resentment will quickly be blurred.

Sayoko Nanamori : Assistant of Itsuki, with which it is in love, it will not support the relation privileged between Haruka and Itsuki. While wanting to help Itsuki while being combined with Isshiki it will produce only the opposite effect. Had by Dolem, it will keep serious after-effects and will darken of them with the wire of the series.

Land, others

Reika Mishima : This mysterious 17 year old young girl guides Ayato until Xephon. Apparently died as of the troisème episode, it will reappear however curiously when our hero deals with Xephon. Called Ixtli by many other people, it will play a key role in the course of Ayato.

Ernst Bahbem : Creator of the Bahbem foundation, which has the alliance of Terra, this old old man several centuries, even of several millenia, is at the origin of all the history and draws well the strings in the shade. He is the creator of the Rhaxephon system.

Helena Bahbem : Niece of Ernst, it is her voice and her eyes in the center of Terra where it will impose the decisions of her uncle. Having passed its childhood with Itsuki and Isshiki, it is particularly close to the two men.

Jôji Futagami : Journaliste authorized by Watari to inquire into Terra, this man crafty one will be able to bring the answers to the questions that the various protagonists are posed, but never free, while hiding its play for the final part. It will help Kamina Ayato also with its manner.

Distribution of the voices

Japanese voices

French voices

  • Fabien Briche : Ayato Kamina
  • Agnes Manoury: Haruka Shitow
  • Celia Carpenter: Kuon Kisaragi
  • Eric Peter: Jin Kunugi
  • Alexandre Olivier: Soichi Yagumo
  • Martial Leminoux: Itsuki Kisaragi
  • Cyril Artaux : Makoto Isshiki
  • Patrick Bethune: Oji Futagami
  • Bérangère Jean: Megumi Shitow, Sayoko Nanamori
  • Nathalie Homs: Maya Kamina
  • Suzanne Sindberg: Elvy Hadhiyat

English voices

  • Chris Patton : Ayato Kamina
  • Monica Rial : Haruka Shitow
  • HKira Vincent-Davis: Kuon Kisaragi
  • Mandy Clark : Reika Mishima
  • Hilary Haag : Megumi Shitow

Data sheet

  • Realizer: Yutaka Izubuchi
  • Music: Ichiko Hashimoto/Yôko Kanno
  • Scénarion: Fumihiro Takayama
  • Character design: Akihiro Yamada
  • Matched design: Mitchiaki Sato and Yoshinori Sayama
  • Design: Shingo Takeba
  • Direction of animation: Hirotoshi Sano

Episodes

  1. First Movement: Invasion of the Capital ( OVER LORD )
  2. 2nd Movement: Awakening of God and the Man ( AWAKENING )
  3. 3rd Movement: A City for Two ( Welcome to our town )
  4. 4th Movement: Its Own Watch ( Watch the year hand )
  5. 5th Movement: Nirai-Kanai ( One Earth Ace It Is In Heaven )
  6. 6th Movement: Destroyed cities ( Lost Song Forgotten Melodies )
  7. 7th Movement: The Day of the Gathering ( Phantom in the Cloud )
  8. 8th Movement: Cold Night, Holy Night ( The Dreaming Stone )
  9. 9th Movement: The Temple of Time ( SANCTUARY )
  10. 10th Movement: Sonata of the Reminiscence ( War In The remembrance )
  11. 11th Movement: The Circuit of Kyoja ( NightMare )
  12. 12th Movement: The Black Egg ( Resonance )
  13. 13th Movement: Human specimen N°1 ( Sleeping Beauty )
  14. 14th Movement: The Boy In the Mirror ( Time After Time )
  15. 15th Movement: The Night of the Children ( Child Hood' S End )
  16. 16th Movement: The Island of the Others ( The Moon Princess )
  17. 17th Movement: Return to the Labyrinth ( Ground Zero )
  18. 18th Movement: Blood ties Blue ( The Memory Of has Lost City )
  19. 19th Movement: Blue friend ( Ticket to Nowhere )
  20. 20th Movement: The Battle of the Craftsman ( Interested Left )
  21. 21e Movement: The Seal of Xephon ( Good Bye My Friend )
  22. 22e Movement: Operation Annihilation of Jupiter ( Down Fall )
  23. 23e Movement: From here with Eternity ( Where The Sweet Bird Song )
  24. 24e Movement: Passage Towards the Agreement ( Twin Music )
  25. 25e Movement: Dubious Music of God ( Deus ex machina )
  26. Final Movement: Well Beyond Eternity ( Time Enough For Coils )

Derivative products

Film

  • Rahxephon Tagen Hensoukyoku (2002)

OAV

Manga

  • Yutaka Izubuchi and Takeaki Momose, RahXephon , Generation Comics 2002

Art book

  • Rahxephon BIBLE (2003)

Video game

  • 2003 : RahXephon: plusculcus

Music S

  • Original RahXephon Soundtrack 1 SOUNDTRACK , of Ichiko Hashimoto
  • Original RahXephon Soundtrack 2 SOUNDTRACK , of Ichiko Hashimoto
  • RahXephon Motion Picture O.S.T , of Ichiko Hashimoto
  • RahXephon O.S.T. 3 , of Ichiko Hashimoto
  • RahXephon Sound Drama

Comments

Influences

This animates strongly is marked by legendary inspirations and more particularly of the civilization of Driven. To the wire of the episodes, the series invites us to follow the inevitable ones and indissociable destinies of Ayato and world.

Comparison with others Manga S

RahXephon is sometimes compared with Neon genesis Evangelion . Both animates although having some points commun run (all animates them in have with others) are however completely different, it acts of two animates intelligent treating kind matched with for base of the more or less known legends. According to experts, RahXephon is original and Evangelion is itself similar to its predecessors. However the most obvious influence is that of Yuusha Raideen, series of Sunrise of 1976 whose robot titrates and Raxhephon share many common points: Mulienne origin of the pilot, arc as principal without forgetting the sonic attack " arms; God Voice".

See too

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