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Originally Posted by Magus IX

Well, in RahXephon I don't think

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Haruka's death was even meant to feel as tragic and horrible as Asahina's. For me, it was more a case of WTF!?--there's no way they're killing her like that, and then feeling immense relief when she turned out to be alive at the very end. I mean, more time was spent on things like Kim's grief and Itsuki/Sayoko/Makoto kicking the bucket than on Haruka dying, so I'm not sure that they actually intended for it to have a huge emotional impact. It just added to the sense that things were being set right at the very end, since Ayato sort of erased it.

Hmm... considering the ending scenes of RahXephon, I don't think things have been being "set" as "right" as what you seem to imply.

For Saikano manga and anime, I think plot-wise manga is better, but emotional-impact-wise anime is better. mostly because of the improvements on the Akemi character.