RahXephon is a Japanese anime television series created and directed by Yutaka Izubuchi. The series follows 17-year-old Ayato Kamina, his ability to control a mecha known as the RahXephon, and his inner journey to find a place in the world. His li ...

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. It was broadcast in Japan on

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from January 21, 2002 to September 11, 2002, which coincidentally was one year after the

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. In keeping with the musical theme of the series, episodes are called "

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". and each volume of DVD is called an "

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". Each episode has a title screen that provides an English title for that episode, which generally does not correspond to a translation from the Japanese title. In addition to the 26 regular episodes, one recap episode was aired, and one episode was released as an (OVA). The original air dates are schedule dates; these are calendar dates until the April series break, when

moved ''RahXephon'' from Monday afternoons into a Tuesday

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block. Episodes 10 through 26 started at 25:55, which is at 1:55 a.m. Wednesday. Retrieved 4 June 2002 and 20 July 2006 This means that the calendar dates of the first and last episode airings are 21 January 2002 and 11 September 2002, respectively. Stations in the Fuji Network System affiliate

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network started airing the series in the late night but moved it to late afternoons after the same series break. ''RahXephon'' thus remained both a late night and late afternoon anime series throughout its original run.

Episode list

OVA

Anime distribution

;Television broadcast and Video on demand Among the

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s and

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(VOD) services and that have broadcast or streamed ''RahXephon'' are:

Home Media release

In Japan, the

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DVD release started while the series was still airing. , containing a "

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" documentary and

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, was released as a prelude on 29 March 2002. Its content was used as bonus material in the international releases. The series itself was released on nine volumes of DVD, the first one on 31 May 2002. The series and the movie were licensed internationally.

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released the show as seven DVD volumes in the

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and

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. In addition to the Japanese bonus materials, ADV included interviews with some of their

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. Other distributors released the show in other regions and languages. ADV Films announced new

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DVDs for release in 2005; each volume was planned have one disc of HD video and another with both DTS 5.1 and

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audio for the standard definition video. However, these were delayed and ultimately failed to be released. Media Factory released a DVD box in spring 2007 which included a HD DVD edition of the movie, new art by

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, and a re-release of the OVA episode. On February 23, 2011, Media Factory released a

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box set of the series that included both Japanese and English audio as well as English subtitles.

References

External links

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