If you asked me who my favorite character was in RahXephon, I would be torn between two choices. The first one is pretty obvious — Jin Kunigi. I wrote an entire post about his bluebird and the underlying tragedy of his daughter’s death. He is a character who is torn in a lot of different […]
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