Texhnolyze made me Emo for WEEKS!

Texhnolyze made me emo permanently. Ever since I saw it, it's been rare for me to wear anything other than black.

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Did you watch a happy cute moeblob show after Texhnolyze to shoo the depression away?

I did.

I watched the alternate outtakes on the DVD, to make me laugh after being bummed out. :)
"Cherry Pie"

Did the word "Theoria" appear anywhere in the show before the last two episodes? Maybe it would've made any sense at all if I'd remembered it, but I don't…

I don't remember, anybody mentioning Theoria except Kano. But Kano was so screwed up in the head. After all, wasn't he was like the result of at least 3 generations of incest?

Theoria is more of a title than a name (and more of a verb than a title).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoria
Wikipedia should help, but the gist is that Kano is referring to Ran's role as seer; as to why he insists she's his sister, it may be more of a symbolic gesture. He's broken into the realm of consciousness she's always inhabited, they are the only ones able to access that state, so he sees her as his "sister" in the sense that any group of people united under anything can be "brothers" and "sisters."

Anyway, I love Texhnolyze. It's a shame there isn't a whole lot of animation anywhere that matches it in depth and style.

> Wikipedia should help, but the gist is that Kano is referring to Ran's role as seer; as to why he insists she's his sister, it may be more of a symbolic gesture.

The show similarly referred to the doctor as Ichise's mother, and it was unclear if it was figurative or not after a while. Wizzu's translator suggested the entire show was meant to be a dream sequence. I'm not sure I disagree.

There are a number of clues that would suggest that (the scrambled text, Ichise meeting his father on the surface... the whole surface in general). I think some aspects of Texhnolyze work better interpreted literally and others work better symbolically, but the two overlap and the whole is both literal and allegorical. That's what I like about it. It's literary animation.

Freud would wet his pants with that show. It gave me unquiet sleeps, but at least something survives in the end. Also, the opening is beast.