Of all of the characters in RahXephon, Jin Kunigi is my favorite. There is a piece of myself that hates this realization. He is exactly the character that I’m meant to like. He’s a conflicted leader, who is trying to redeem himself for his past wrongs. He is a complicated character. On the one hand, […]
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