Rah Xephon Discussion - Television Tropes & Idioms

GDwarf: "Bishoujo", looking at the article the term links to, I'm not certain Rah Xephon qualifies. Having romance and/or having young attractive girls isn't the same thing, it would seem, and Rah Xephon certainly isn't a fanservice show with an absence of older characters.

Sneebs: It isn't a Bishoujo show, in that the age range of the cast is broad and the purpose of the majority of the female cast isn't Fan Service. However, just as the "half the male cast" are Bishonen (attractive males), the same can be said for the entire cast - attractive females.

Sneebs: Wasn't there a character sheet for this? it was sub-par, yes, but given the Liveblogging experiments

going on, surely some of our number would be able to fill it up.

prescience: There was definitely a character sheet for this. I made some minor edits myself. For some reason all evidence of it has disappeared from the history. I wonder WTF happened...

Sneebs A Nyhow, it's back up now.

Sneebs: Would Hiroko Asahina count as a non-violent example of Yandere or Yangire? During episode 18 and 19, she desperately wants to leave Tokyo due to the Mu Phase of her blood kicking in. Over the course of episode 19, she becomes more and more attached to Ayato, due to her alienation from the world she knew and the effects of Mu phase. Some of her behaviour in the latter half of the episode seems especially odd and unstable. Would this count as yandere/yangire?

I don't think I'd call her a Yangire, and if she is a Yandere, it's a loose application of the trope...she's not really full-blown crazy so much as she's terrified of what's happening to her, and possibly a bit unbalanced because of her fear and confusion. That's the way I interpreted her in that episode.
Yeah, she didn't fully fit. She's not vicious with it, she's just desperately, desperately clinging to Ayato because she has nothing else. I suggested Yangire because the element which causes her to go loopy was external rather than a mental problem. Her love for Ayato struck me as somewhat unhealthy (she uses only one thing to define herself after her escape from Tokyo, i.e. Ayato) and when I put the words unhealthy + love together i either get the words 'Venerial Disease' or 'yandere'. Can anyone think of a better trope that fits her situation, then?

UnlimtedRestorationWorks: The Tokyo Fireball doesn't really apply here as the nerd district Akihabara seems to remain destroyed, and other ruins are also shown.

Looney Toons: It's been a long time since I was back on this page, which I originally wrote, and I see that the line for which I got a Made Of Win has been excised. Simply on the grounds that it did get a Made Of Win, I'm putting it back.

From current revision: "Nuclear Weapons Taboo (No, no, it wasn't a nuclear bomb that was used against the Mu in the first Mu-Human war! It was a fusion bomb! Completely different.)". Did the troper who wrote this forget that a fusion bomb is a nuclear bomb, or is this just a comment on the word the dub uses for it? —Document N

GDwarf: Indeed, I was wondering about that. A "fusion bomb" is just another way of saying a nuclear weapon, and given the grave seriousness this action is given in the anime it's pretty clear it was supposed to reference Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I'd say it likely doesn't really count.

Sikon: Actually, a fusion bomb would be a thermonuclear bomb. Conventional nuclear bombs are fission bombs.

prescience: Listing as averted. In any case, the distinction between "conventional" fission weapons and thermonuclear weapons is irrelevant here.

Ununnilium:

Because Destiny Says So (Semi-subverted. Kind-of.)

A completely useless entry!

prescience:

Shipping (Makoto and Isshiki)

Wait... what? I'm pretty certain that Isshiki Makoto is a single character (unlike several other people in the series).

Indeed he is. Perhaps Haruka and Isshiki was what was meant?

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