Why does RahXephon not have a fanbase when other weird anime like Lain do?

This summs it up perfectly, good one user

It doesn't matter what you believe. It's factual. Most things, such as episode structure, are directly lifted from older shows. Both NGE and RahXephon have an episode with two, differently colored Dolems/Angels that attack the protagonist in a zone that makes it hard for them to maneuver. Oh wow, this already existed in Raideen, the show that served as RahXephons primary inspiration. Rememder the ending sequence RahXephon and EoE share? Directly liften from Birth, an OVA from the 80s that Anno, very coincidentally, worked on as an animator. Akira's mother (protagonist of Raideen) created the Raideen mech and is an autistic superhuman individual who can use magic. Wow, a mother having a special role like Quon and Yui. What a coincidence that this was a concept in 75 already. This goes on and on and on and on.

If you don't know mecha, and if you don't know the history of the genre and anime as an artform, you are in no position to comment on similarities between individual entries. Inspiration isn't linear. Either watch anime, or stop pretending to be knowledgable enough to identify unique similarities. You're quite frankly the sort of person I referred to in that initial post. An entry-level newfag who knows about as much about the genre as the average r/anime user and the primary reason why the show is being shunned in the first place.

>Most things, such as episode structure, are directly lifted from older shows. Both NGE and RahXephon have an episode with two, differently colored Dolems/Angels that attack the protagonist in a zone that makes it hard for them to maneuver.

Yes, please note that none of what you listed are any of the aspects that make NGE unique or a special show

There are relative degrees of similarity. Yes, I don't disbelieve that NGE borrows a lot of things from other shows. But RaxhXephon borrows so much from a single prior work in NGE to the extent that's distracting for most people.

If you think that's unfair and it borrows no more from NGE than NGE does from 'Raideen' or whatever -- ok, haven't seen 'Raideen' - but pretty sure you're lying

What's strange is that it seems very natural to me to simultaneously apperciate that rahxephon is very good while also recognising that borrowing so heavily from the single most identifiable work of the late 90s probably affects the way its perceived. There is no need to pretend like it takes no more than is 'usual'

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>I have no experience or knowledge yet my opinion is still valuable!
I have a hard time seeing how RahXephon takes what makes NGE unique. NGE is a psychoanalysis and character study. RahXephon isn't. In fact, it's the polar opposite. If you think that the visual depiction of introspection is unique to NGE, then we're back to square one since your lack of knowledge once again exposed you as the fraud you are.
>ok, haven't seen 'Raideen'
You should probably add that you haven't seen "anything", otherwise you'd be aware of the fact that Anno quite literally copy pasted dozens of sequenes from other shows and hardly even modified them prior to integrating them into NGE. NGE was made as a love letter to the mecha genre, that's why it's littered with hundreds of references. If you "don't care about mecha", then you're not even in a position to properly appreciate NGE and quite literally disqualified to comment on anything related to it.

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>NGE was made as a love letter to the mecha genre,

You can call me a 'fraud' (though I'm unsure what I'm fraudently presenting myself as -- someone that has watched Rahxephon and NGE???), but this is flat out wrong. In no way is the central idea of NGE a 'love letter to the mecha genre'.

You don't really seem to understand how much the genre shapped Anno, his lifestyle and the struggles he went through. Well, how could you? You're ignorant of his directing and the copious amount of homages found in the show you pretend to treasure. Don't worry, though. You share that trait with the vast majority of western NGE fans.

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OP, this thread is the reason why RahX never got a big fanbase