I might as well say it straight out – I hated “Evangelion”, once I’d completed it. As one reviewer put it, “it keeps you on the edge of your seat until you just don’t care anymore.” It substituted tasteless humor for anything resembling character development, and the concepts for the “angels” were among the dumbest looking monsters I’ve ever seen.

“Rah Xephon” doesn’t have any of those problems, overall I really liked it… but it seemed to suffer from what I’ve termed “Dark Tower Syndrome”, after Stephen King’s series of novels: the scope of the plot got too big, until there was no really satisfying way to conclude it. But they did the best they could.

Not withstanding, I loved the character development, the animation, and the eerie “Dolems” that Kamina battles. Overall I’m glad I took the time to check it out.