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Indeed it does need intepretation. Now quit bitching.
I followed Texhnolyze through it's fansubs, waited patiently for each DVD to come out. <
>You don't have to sit and ponder, look hard and deep to find a meaning in Texhnolyze. It hits you right in the face from the beginning. <
>There are some people out there that society likes to forget. Likes to shove to the backburners and ignore. In this tale, they are a whole race of people - the people of the underground city of Lux. <
>And even within them, sides are chosen. You're either in or your out. Ichise is one of these outcasts and he lives by what he knows. The only thing he knows - his strength, his brute force. <
>This point is particularly brought out in one of the last episodes, when Ichise makes the decision to protect Ran. He's come to feel something for the girl and, perhaps, in a way she reminds him of the mother he could never save. So he goes to offer the only thing he's sure of having - his body. That's always been his bargaining chip, always been what everyone wanted. <
>Anger, rage and fighting. Though are all Ichise knows. How do you expect him to act any less animalistic than the animal this society made him become? It's clear through most of the show that he doesn't know how to react to people. <
>Likewise, it's the same old sort of theme out of many a popular sci-fi movie - man bringing about an end to his own world. Ichise inadvertantly is thrust into all of this by his texhnolyze, Ran is thrust by her visions and everyone else by some intricate connection. But eventually, Lux collapses because of technology, the classic warning given in so many Apocalypse movies. <
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>Not each episode requires such in-depth searches for meaning. It all fits into the grandier scheme and message of the series itself. This series, as a whole, is a very good series. It does require connecting together pieces and keeping larger themes in mind, as well as a little psychology but what good series /doesn't/?

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Well, could be worse.
Be kind to me, go mark down that horribly pretentious review on Unite: 02. <
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>Texh is something that demands interpretation, taken at face value, it is nothing. It has to be noted that all of the characters are types, in a way, representing an aspect of the human psyche. If you want to interpret the negative(?, might actually be positive or ambivalent) conclusion at the end, it is the result of the fact that every particular character is incomplete. <
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>Ichise is f*cking stupid. He has an animal drive, which is why the powerless Ran takes to him. In some episode, Ichise remarks that to avoid Ran's prognostication(You will destroy everything, and you will be all alone in the end), he must take sophistication. Civilization, to rise above the animal nature that is the core of his person. He remarks to Ran in 25, or was that 26, as he rushes back to Lux, since he's met Ran, he's changed. Before, whenever he met a difficulty, he would do as critics of Texh claimed: "Punch Punch!" Episode 26 makes its response: Ichise hasn't changed in the least. When Onishi is ordered by Ran to kill her, and the ravaging mobs of Lux obliterates Onishi, leaving only the lumps of texhnolyze that are his legs, Ichise breaks into his signature rage. It references the first episode: we cut to a flashback of Ichise living as a pit fighter. He punches the mob, crushing their skulls in, to the cheers of a crowd long since dead. Blood pours on the floor as a rainlike torrent, a staccato of bullet fire. Someone shoots his arm, severing the control nerves. This is the extent of his change: the least he can do, is accept his new body. He accepts his new arm, accepts his new leg. Doc's ghost from on high, returns to her lab and reactivates his texhnolyze. Ichise, once more capable, slaughters the mob. Ichise, now without direction, searches for nothing but Ran. He heads to the Opera House, to seek Kano and find a direction he does not have, of himself. <
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>He meets Kohakura on his way up, and sees the rooted bodies of the shapes, unable to kill, and reduced to staring at their reality until the end of time. <
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>He meets Kano. Kano goes off on a long rant, about how he never wanted to go to the surface world in the first place: apparently, the Class had manuevered for their descent into Lux, with a vast population of guinea pigs. One doesn't know if Gabe is indigenous, or was brought down by the Class. This is all a method, and it is possible to speculate that Kano had raped Ran. In the world of Texhnolyze, the semen of the man apparently can be virulent poison at times. Yoshii killed the hooker in the second volume by coming in her. His life energy overwhelmed the woman, who only wishes to live, who is deprived of any hope. Here, Kano might have driven Ran insane by raping her. Here, Abortion Is Murder: Ran may have ordered Onishi to abort a pregnancy by killing her. Ichise, seeing Ran's corpsehead, attached to an obviously useless shape lifesupport unit, freaks out. He rages at Kano, ignorant. He punches Kano's head off. In the end, he is resigned to his fate. He is badly wounded, and will probably die. He will be all alone in the end, after all. He can't be allowed to talk to Shapes rooted in the ground, and steal their battery packs to ensure their mobility. <
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>Onishi is an arch conservative, as that other reviewer said of his organization. He really can't effect any change, he cannot create a future for himself, the Organ, or Lux(Lukuss is very funny, I'm told the Japanese version transliterates directly to Ruku9su or something. Lukuss is very similar to lux, which is: " The International System unit of illumination, equal to one lumen per square meter." In episode 26, Kohakura uses what is apparently a japanese pun: Lukuss is the ninth sphere of the reviving hell. http://buddhism.inbaltimore.org/threeheaps4.html). When you see that, Yoshii's brutality against the Organ(killing Onishi's wife, randomly sniping Organo members) is a tad more understandable. Texhnolyze is kind to Onishi: when there is nothing left for him, when what he has guarded is destroyed, Ran conveniently asks him to kill her before a screaming mob. Euthanasia, am I rite? <
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>I am tired, and I am out of insight. I have no time to interpret this any more, and it would be nice if you could get a Joycean scholar to work on this for us. This piece is extremely full of symbolism, from the regenerative lizard in the first episode, to the train streaking through the darkness, only to meet a dead end above, to the dragonfly(hmmm, what does dragonfly mean in a Japanese context? The color of Shapes are also weird, I know that in Japan, black is the mourning color, but in China, white(which I find a tad more appropriate), is the color of death. <
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>Texhnolyze, ultimately, is very flawed. If the symbolism is not properly considered, it's wholly unenjoyable. And sometimes the symbols may be excessively trite, and there are some displays of Japanese bias(Mizuho being excessively stupid). The characters, it has been said a thousand times, are obviously flat. They are not completely sympathetic, because they are all flawed. Why are they in Lux in the first place? It is, quite possibly, the ninth sphere of the reviving hell. They are all tragedies.

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The end of texhnolyze
Wow... that is the only way to describe this ending. With most cyber-punk films, you get a dreary conclusion that is steeped with philosophy with a sense of rebirth and renewal. Usualy hope is reborn in one form or another, even if depressing sacrfices are necessary for it to happen. That is not thew case here. There is no great showdown or no great philosophy discussed with the future of humanity is at stake. A boy has begun to change and desires to be different then what he was. He wants to save a girl. The ending seemed hectic and didn't fit the usual cyber-punk ending. At first, I was shocked at what appeared to be mass violence and gorey deaths signaling a lack of a outline for the plot. Nothing is further from the truth. Watch these last two episodes, ponder on what you saw, then when you are ready, rewatch them. You will be glad you did and you will see the reasoning behind what was once apparent anarchy. The ending is not typical or happy or life affirming, but it is realistic for where the show was going and probably one of the best thought out endings I have seen in a while. Certain people will hate this ending regardless of what I or anyone else sayts about it. It is dark, depressing, disturbing, and quite sad. Most of people who hate this would have probably been weeded out in earlier volumes. To those that are left, brace yourselves and watch. Give it a chance, you will be glad you did. It is quite interesting to look back over the boy and how he has changed from the beginning. Its a great series with a flawless ending. A classic series, despite a slow beginninbg that lacked a detailed plot and a middle that tended ignor reality during the boy's fight scenes despite a stronger sense of reality everywhere else.