to put it simply these anime's have very blatant similarities for which I will not get into the details of but just as a bit of warning to any one that really liked NGE and sees this anime and gets a little upset that they did kinda take a few attributes from NGE as this came out about 7 years after NGE and it seems like a blatant copy cat, that is not particularly true as the story goes in a different direction than NGE, but I am only writing this to let you know, because I may mention Evangelion from time to time but I will try not to mention it to much.
O.K? lets begin
Impression:
The set up of this show is pretty good however maybe a little confusing at first as it is not intirely clear who is the actual enemy and what is actually going on until around episode 4 when the series really gets rolling and you finally get everything, though they do take you on a bit of a ride while doing it.
The show like evangelion does go over psycho analysis but in this series the psycho analysis is not as crucial or is not given as much attention but is still entertaining to watch. The over all setting is an interesting one as things are a little normal but not really as humanity still has to fight off the "Mu" who are an advanced civilization from another dimension and have occupied tokyo aka "Tokyo Jupiter" for it's out ward appearance. This anime does a pretty good job at keeping things interesting and the whole thing seemed pretty well planned out with character development and the it didn't get repetitive and episodic with a monster of the week sort of deal and there were defiantly parts that I thought were all around genius in execution.
the only cons in my initial impression was that this wasn't the greatest anime, I didn't feel like a great anime but as I like back on it now, I thought it was pretty damn good, but not perfect.
Characters:
I will admit that the characters of RahXephon were a little hard to warm up to at first but as you get to know them and you get see them more you come around to really like them.
The first character is Ayato Kamina aka Shinji ikari with a back bone. one thing I liked about this character is that despite his fears of piloting a giant robot to protect humanity he does understand the importance of such a task which was kind of a refreshment in comparison to some of Evangelion's characters.
Next is Huruka Shitow aka Misato with short hair, I didn't get particularly attached to this character in particular as she seemed like a copy and paste Misato from evangelion.
The last one I'm going to mention is Quon Kisaragi, who was actually like none of eva's characters, she was happy, curious, and was a rather unique character as she would say things in some cryptic manner that made her interesting.
Final verdict:
I'm going to give this one an 8 out of 10
and I would recommend this to anyone with an empty after noon or is looking for an alternative to evangelion.
