I read the series as being interested in questioning how group identities are constructed, and using main characters' own reconstruction of himself as the foil for this. For the main character to take an equal portion in the story to the larger dynamics at work (who will win total control? Hint: no one, there is no such thing) was a nice change of pace.
Ultimately, for me, it says a lot about stories and our relationships to them. How we force narratives to be responsible for our whole sense of self. And how needing to enforce the 'truth' of any narrative on a scale beyond your individual self can be destructive and violent, no matter what the ideology is.
Often in relation to themes like this, a story will obligate itself to show the viewer what is ultimately "real" or not. Oh, the transhumanists were right. The magic people were right. I don't think this show did that to itself either. Everything just sort of happened and kept happening. Something about the way it broke up sequence of events and vascillated between fast pace and stillness makes you lose the time and seems to, not Negate any rationalizing, but simply not preoccupy itself with presenting a throughline until much later when you've already been dipped into the atmosphere of this world.
What is clear at the beginning is at least that this is a sort of science vs religion thing, but Texhnolyze ultimately is like. Why does this question even matter. In the end, regardless of the trueness or realness of any of them, wielded in the same way they do similar destruction.
Anyway. Paired very well with learning about the CIA.
