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Mar 16, 2010 10:39 PM
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mind- rape episodes are allways good.....
this episode was epic!!!
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Jun 30, 2010 2:02 PM
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Crazy stuff. It was okay, but slow and hard to swallow :P
Jul 28, 2010 9:48 PM
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seriously will this anime ever make any sense?
Oct 17, 2010 6:09 AM
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This episode conveyed Ayato's emotions very well.
Apr 7, 2011 9:32 PM
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Wow, this show just got heavy! This reminded me a lot of those "subconscious exploring" episodes in evangelion, but much more theatrical and understandable.
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Mar 18, 2013 4:48 PM
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Best episode so far.
Apr 4, 2013 2:07 PM
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Damn that scene when she pulled that thing out of Ayato's mouth..
Jun 13, 2013 3:18 PM
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Having a bad acid trip, damn...

Anyway interesting episode.
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Oct 31, 2013 2:20 PM
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Hope the series doesn't do more episodes like this . . . Not that I entirely hate it, but I don't really love "trippy dreams"
Mar 23, 2014 7:45 AM

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mrbits said:
Best episode so far.
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Idc if you think its weird, I have a life and friends and an income of money.

Nov 7, 2014 4:31 AM

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this was eva / lain level

I am glad I gave this show a shot haha
Jun 5, 2015 8:24 AM

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mrbits said:
Best episode so far.


Absolutely.
Aug 9, 2015 3:53 AM
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I like stuff like wondering in your own mind, but that one was sometimes really hard to comprehend
Sep 3, 2017 3:29 PM

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Re-watching: I like how this 'internal' psychological episode seems to relate to something going on externally. In this case it seems more substantial and purposeful than just 'here is his subconscious.' The cafe scene was very artistic.

I didn't want to bring up NGE, but this is more anti-Eva than anything.
Jan 23, 2021 4:35 PM

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So the Mu are betting on Ayato's desire to return home to Tokyo and inserted him into a fake dream one.

The graphic portrayal of how that dolem was mindfucking him...

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Sep 9, 2021 5:48 AM

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The transition from EP10 to this was really confusing.. I had to go back and re-watch the previous episode and the intro to this, but no, the sudden toss into the battle still made no sense. I did dig what was done with the inner world in this episode, especially with the television program part, but yeah, this was just the Leliel fight from Evangelion EP 16 all over again. They even had the audacity to replicate the 'dim empty carriage' angles from Eva, but this time with an empty bus instead lol
Sep 27, 2021 2:32 PM

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The pace and dynamics of this series are all over the place, it feels almost like no one involved in this project actually knows how to link a few episodes/arc together. Everything is mishmashed to the viewer with no sense of artistic direction/will. The not so great writing doesn't help obviously.

Aside from that there a lot of unneeded cheesy romance plot and, above all, ripped things from Eva. In just 11 episodes the similiarities are way too many.

That said this one was probably the best episode thus far, pondering if I should drop it or not. Does it get better towards the end?
Nov 22, 2021 8:47 PM

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Amazing episode!

I do agree that the sudden mid battle at the beginning was confusing at first. I thought I skipped an Episode or so.

I kinda knew that he was getting mind fucked by that "Angel" due to the fact that it keeps appearing briefly in ever scene.

The flashbacks really REALLY reminded me of Evangelion Flashbacks. Back when Shinji couldn't pilot EVA-01 anymore and just shut himself up, then started having visions.

I also love how intimate this scene was. With Hiroko and Haruka. Would not be surprised in the real world. Hiroko actually likes Ayato even more than Mamoru.



That scene with Haruka though O__O



Is like the same dream with Shinji and Rei/Asuka/Misato :X

So Ayato may have been an experiment as an Instrument for Rahxephon?

His mother may have not be her biological one afterall.



Also I literally lol'd when Mishima started to pull that long big log/thing out of Ayato out of nowhere. I thought she choked him at first, but was getting something in his mouth.

I'm like, WTF XD



Quon going crazy as well. I guess she really is connected to Ollin (Ayato)




May 30, 2022 8:50 AM
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It's not an Anime Orignal Mecha by bones without weird shit.

I would've had actual sympathy for Ayato if he had an actual personality. Or the voice acting really just sucks, I dunno. Kind of a shame, the directing for this episode is pretty good.

Edit: Wtf? That's Hiro Shimono voicing Ayato?
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Transition from last ep to this was like jumping onto a freeway. Suddenly thrust into a situation and already our MC is losing and gets engulfed. We then proceed to see him wandering around and wishing for reality over a dream.
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Sep 19, 1:06 AM
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The idea that Ayato is suffering deeply from fighting in RahXephon is so incredibly unearned. Like, in episode 6 or so he says "no way I'll ever fight in that thing" and then for multiple episodes after he's shown fighting without any serious complaints or difficulties. Granted, the fighting is just a few random scattered battles that don't seem to be difficult at all and involve no risk to anyone, civilian or military. And then suddenly he's in some mind world where the greatest pain in his life is all the suffering from battle he's endured. What a joke. "Show, don't tell" is not an iron-clad rule but "Don't show, and then tell the opposite of what you're showing" is moronic writing.

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