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plot analysis help *TREMENDOUS SPOILER ALERT*


I just finished watching this series and I have to say it's one of the most *beep* up videos I've watched. A lot of the presentation here wouldn't be possible on a live-action flick. Every episode I watched just kept prepping my mind for overdrive. Still I had a hard time piecing the plot together:

1) What happened to the human race in Texhnolyze? What's the history?

2) What is up with the surface world? Why all the weird dudes? Why don't they need Raffia anymore?

3) Why is it implied over and over again in the series that texhnolyzation will evolve mankind (which "has already reached a dead end" according to the characters)? Why is it needed?

4) What were Yoshii's motives for inciting a spectacle?

5) Since all of the underground city's inhabitants died at the end, does that mean that the human race is extinct?

6) Why did Doc choose Ichise for her experiment? Did she really die in the surface world?

7) What really is Raffia?

8) What is up with Kano and Ran?

I know I got a lot of questions but its hard filling in the blanks when I'm still having a hard time recovering from all the mature things that was stuffed in my mouth while viewing Texhnolyze.

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1) What happened to the human race in Texhnolyze? What's the history?


If i remember correctly, the upper world had seen that he was evloving technologically so in order to keep a quiet life and society he exiled all the transgressors and troublemakers to the underground of lux. From there is all the talk about the changing eye color of the first generation of lux inhabitants in the series. It is a symbol of the fake destiny of the people of lux. They try to change from their transgressor bestial nature to the more civilised behaviour and to suite themselvs into the high level of technology they got, But in reality they never change.

2) What is up with the surface world? Why all the weird dudes? Why don't they need Raffia anymore?


The surface world is in a kind of dead state. The "weird dudes" are the memories of the live people that used to live there. After the leaders of the surface world got rid of the hooligans there was no one to support life there so they sunk into apathy until all the people in the surface world became a memory. The surface world is also a kind of dream that the people of lux go through after they had died. Like Ichise's framed father. It is a dream within a dream, after the death you sink into a skylike bluelike dream. Only kano is the way out of this. But more on that later.


3) Why is it implied over and over again in the series that texhnolyzation will evolve mankind (which "has already reached a dead end" according to the characters)? Why is it needed?


This is a belief of the doctor, the inventor and developer of Texh.she believes that Texhnolyze will develop mankind into a next stage of evolution. And it did, but not the way she expected. Why is it needed? to live a better life, to improve society or to find the "truth" i guess.

4) What were Yoshii's motives for inciting a spectacle?


Yoshi wanted to enlighten the common people into rebelling the class and to find a true leader among tham that will prevent their comming extinction. He knew what was going on in the surface world (because he came from there) and wanted to prevent lux from becoming like the surface. His methood was a big skirmish that engulf the whole city, and he who servives is the strongest of all and will become the leader. and here is a nietzschean idea.

5) Since all of the underground city's inhabitants died at the end, does that mean that the human race is extinct?


It could be. Or that the killing of Kano (the king of the new world) liberated the people of lux from dream to reality (Because everything in the series is a dream).

6) Why did Doc choose Ichise for her experiment? Did she really die in the surface world?


She chose Ichise for her experiment because she seen him as the most complete person in the city. I guess that's because he was the most bestial and premitive in the city that she saw him as perfect guinea pig for her experiment to turn the most bestial person into a civilised one. and so to demonstrate what the real purpose of texh is. Ichise, according to her, was supposed to be the finest example of how the people of lux should adopt texhnolyze.

What really is Raffia?

Raffia is a kind of flowers that produced from the bodies of the dead in lux. The surface world does not used tham anymore because he wasn't alive, and lafia is something that enliven dead metal organs (texh), because they waren't alive they does not need lafia (dead vs alive theme)

8) What is up with Kano and Ran?


Ran is the seer so kano captured her after he had seen she is jeopardizing his plan (by telling people the future (ep 18)). Also she is his theoria, because she is connected by her seering ability to the real reality (which is not lux and not the surface world) so i think that he saw her as a vehicle to connect to the real reality.

Of course, all i had written here is my pesonal interpretation (except what is totally obvious). The "true" interpretation is found only in the hand of the creator.

for more on this look at my thread here. and on wikipedia.

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Whoa! I didn't expect the entire series to be a just a bunch of Kano's fantasies. Is that a proven already?

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No, nothing is proven, all is theory.

Read this http://somehow-someday.com/Texhnolyze/index.php

go to the FAQ and read what the trabslator of wizzu has to say.

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Man, Texhnolyze is as ambiguous as hell. I guess that's where intelligence shines its beauty.

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Nice interpretations! I'd like to add to your thoughts on why Doc choose Ichise for her experiments: aside from his bestial nature, Ichise showed that he actually wanted to live. Think about how often people talked about his eye color and how different it was. Ichise represents someone who is willing to change. As opposed to the apathetic and stubborn characters around him who have either given up on life (people above) or are so obsessed with their own ideologies that it leads to their doom (practically everyone in Lux) Ichise shows that he is willing to change himself, to grow as a person. He goes from a completely instinctive being at the beginning to a man who is capable of loving and caring for others. Unfortunately he is the only character who truly embraces this willingness to throw off "destiny" (if you want to call it that) and humanity is arguably doomed (of course there are those new life forms). But judging from his smile at the end the act of truly and selflessly caring for another (Ran) made his seemingly brutal and meaningless life worth it. Which is why I think the ending is ultimately uplifting in a very dark, existential kind of way.

But crazy idea bout the Dream-world. Never thought of that.

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I disagree with you on this point, Ichise maybe wanted to change and to throw off his destiny, but the only one he was capable to really love was Ran. The proof that he doesn't changed a bit was in the end. When lux inhabitants shot Onishi to nothing but his texh legs, Ichise, instead of realizing he can't do anything about it and that he should now focus on saving Ran, is breaking into his old berserker self and kill and revenge the inhabitants. But in the end when he is about to die he is smiling perhaps because he is now liberated from all this.

Oh, and the idea about the dream world isn't mine. But i suggest you read my thread here, it has alot of my interpretations of the series.

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I would say that the dream world interpretation is true, or at least has a lot of merit. Such as apparently you can't read letters in your dreams, which would explain the somewhat English language that kept appearing (Looked English but not quite English?) and also Kano's spiel about Lux being byproduct of his own mind. However he could've been delusional. But then the dream theory would support the existence of ghosts on the Surface World. Another thought I just had here about the dream world theory.

Most areas in the Surface World directly mimic Edward Hopper paintings? The man who looks like Ichise's father even looks like the man from the Nighthawks painting by Edward Hopper. Most shots of the countryside look like paintings of New England by EH also. Also, the shot of Doc sitting half naked on a bed while looking out the window in profile is a direct copy of his painting "Morning Sun"

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/05/04/arts/04hopp_CA2.600.jpg

My theory is that what happened in Texhnolyze wasn't a dream but was real. I believe that the Theonormal (surface dwellers) sent away those deemed bad to an underground city so that they could further evolution on the surface. The man who talked to Ichise before he left the Surface World (with the strange braces on his legs) had I think, orthotics. Since Texhnolyze was all about improving the human body, I believe that the Theonormal found a way (either by using Raffia or otherwise) to evolve the body, so much to the point that hey had no need of bodies anymore and became spirits instead. I think what supports this idea are the quick shots of the fountain that is seen when Ichise, Doc and Saginuma(?) arrive on the Surface. The fount itself is the top half of a body, except with the head, arms and legs cut off; cut off the arms, cut off the legs, cut off the head, your body is no more use anymore. So maybe this limbless body statue was a symbol of their view of the human body; that it is useless and no longer needed. I believe that the Theonormal's strange happiness is because they know that life is pointless and has no meaning anymore, meaning they can no live how they want too. Except they just replay older, simpler times forever.

I do believe that Kano is delusional and was not dreaming the entire scenario. Mainly because if this was the case, Kano could've controlled his own destiny especially via Texhnolyzation, and it wouldn't make sense for him to lose his own mind if he was in complete control of events. However, this may throw up another idea of multiple-personality disorder. That each of the main characters could represent a different person, each all vying for consciousness. That the entire scenario was an attempt by Kano to wipe out his personalities to become the truly dominant one. This would make Yoshii the other dominant personality (as he initiated the entire war) or maybe Yoshii was the person with the disorder, trying to curb the others away and fighting amongst themselves. Oh who knows, it's this kind of theorising which makes this anime amazing.

One thing I'd like answered is, does anyone have any idea what those pure white people in the tank that Shinji killed. Or the Three Old Women?

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The white people in the tank that Shinji killed are probably life devices that are providing life to the city and her people. They are raffia pits. The class uses raffia to enliven the people of lux so they are symbolic robots of a man life device supported by raffia to to produce the lifes of people both texhnolyzed and untexhnolyzed. And if the robots are their life support the three old women are the city unconsciousness. I wrote more about the old women in the thread that i started here.

And about your theory, pretty smart. But Kano himself said that the kano that ichise sees is just a manifestation of the kano in the world beyond the limits of the world ichise knows. That is telling us that lux and the upper world is an illusion and that everything in it is a manifestation of another, more true world. The idea that the world we live in is a dream is an ancient idea, it appears in few culturs and religions, in Buddhism and in the Mayan civilization of native america and thats probably from were the idea were taken. But even if your theory is true and his delusional the reason why he is insane is because it is known that reign is turning people power hungry sometimes to insanity power hungry. So if this is true he is already insane, and insane persons cannot control nor their mind nay their destiny.

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Who knows really. I think it's the vagueness the show has that makes it that much more interesting. Now if only I could get that music that plays when the gang walk toward the town on the Surface World (just before they meet the girl with the ball)

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Oh, ryushi dude, i just had reread your comment on this song. There is a lot more music i didn't find in the soundtrack. For example, There is a really beautifull japanese flute (sakahuchi i think) playing in episode twenty. Also there is some music on the first episode (when yoshi follows ran) that isn't in the soundtrack.
And there is this music in episodes 9 and 14 with ambient sound and a little hand drum (i don't remember how it is called in english, but i have a marakeshian group in my city and they call it tarbuka). Also there is this music before the skirmish in episode 8 (and appears in another episodes too). There is some music with sound of bubbles and really cool ambient sound in episode 7 when an union member shoots a few organo ones. And you can hear the full song (Number 18 in the first soundtrack in the series) a couple of times in the series (like in episodes 10 when yoshi is about to shoot the class member and 9 when yoshi kills mana)

In short i wonder why they don't put those in the soundtrack too. I hope that one day the crew of the show will decide to release another soundtrack with these songs like they did with lain.

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What makes you think that all the inhabitants died at the end?
There were still people alive that weren't turned into those machine freaks. Like the one's that shot Onishi, the guys that were raping his secretary, and that one old guy who I think was in the Organo... who said that Lux would no longer see daylight, if that is true?


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