RahXephon

Interesting, considering the creators were only given a very general story outline and worked on it completely separate from the show. Has anybody seen the last volume in English outside of Australia? Because I don't want to import a $10 manga.

I've seen it in a Barnes and Noble in New York City, if that counts.  The one near St.Mark's. 

have you seen the tv episodes and the film? because in the manga they changed everything and i didnt liked it at all.

maybe it was just the first. hows the story after all? does it keep up to the anime or have they incorporated more evangelion ripoff. or maybe they removed them all together.

Actually, they changed the anime, not the manga. 99% of the time, mangas come first, anime comes later.

I'm rather certain you're wrong in that assumption, Ferahgo - though the guesswork is good.

RahXephon is an original work by Studio Bones, like was the case with N.G.Evangelion and A Vision of Escaflowne. Or so I liked to believe from everything, and if my memory serves me right the anime came before any manga adaptation.

In searching for some proof or indications, I did fish out this Anime News Network entry profiling the manga as an "alternate re-telling" of the anime: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=3390

Anonymous in comment 1's theory seems plausible:)

Either way, I haven't read the manga, so I can't make an argument on it's merits. I did like the anime a lot, despite it's influence from Evangelion.

From what I understand, Bones' original choice for character designer for the show, Takeaki Momose, was busy when pre-production for the show as starting. Towards the end of pre-production, they were looking for someone to do the manga, and he was free, so they gave it to him. He was basically given the pre-production liner notes - these are the characters and their personalities, these are the themes of the show - and told to go with it. So the manga was produced entirely independantly of the show, hence the radical differences.
The story is - very different. Much more of a difference from the TV show than the movie was. Things pick up in volume 2 of the manga as far as differences go.
Does anyone know anything about the novelt hat's coming out? I can't read japanese, so I can't hunt for real info, but Barnes and Noble has a preorder for a novel called RahXephon written by one Hiroki Ohnogi.

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