So, after a certain little show came out , it was rather popular for mecha shows to have a psychological or philosophical bent, rather than just acting as vehicles to sell toys or model kits. Not that they couldn’t still push merch in a lot of cases, but lots of folks wanted to cash in on the success of what remains one of the most dominant anime franchises. We’ve seen entries like this before, most particularly RahXephon, the 2002 attempt to do… exactly what its predecessor did.
In 1999, however, we got a series that did clearly aim somewhere in the same spectrum, but that was also clearly doing its own thing. The Big O clearly owes some to Evangelion, but it’s also drenched in film noir and presages Demonbane more than it does RahXephon.
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