List of RahXephon episodes
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". Each episode has a title screen that provides an English title for that episode, which generally does not correspond to a translation from the Japanese title. In addition to the 26 regular episodes, one recap episode was aired and one episode was released as an (OVA). These are placed in the list according to the series chronology.
The original air dates are schedule dates; these are calendar dates until the April series break, when Fuji Television
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moved RahXephon from Monday afternoons into a Tuesday late night anime
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block. Episodes 10 through 26 started at 25:55, which is at 1:55 a.m. Wednesday. This means that the calendar dates of the first and last episode airings are 21 January 2002 and 11 September 2002, respectively. Stations in the Fuji Network System affiliate Tōkai Television Broadcasting
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network started airing the series in the late night but moved it to late afternoons after the same series break. RahXephon thus remained both a late night and late afternoon anime series throughout its original run.
Episode list
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Other anime
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio: (2003), 116 minutes, television movieTelevision movie
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. An alternative version of the story, with substantial plot changes and some new scenes. Original release dates: 19 April 2003 (TV) 25 September 2003 (DVD)
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s and video on demand
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(VOD) services and that have broadcast or streamed RahXephon are:
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DVD video
In Japan, the Media Factory
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DVD release started while the series was still airing. , containing a "making-of
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" documentary and trailers
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, was released as a prelude
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on 29 March 2002. Its content was used as bonus material in the international releases. The series itself was released on nine volumes of DVD, the first one on 31 May 2002.
The series and the movie were licensed internationally. ADV Films released the show as seven DVD volumes in the United States
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and United Kingdom
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. In addition to the Japanese bonus materials, ADV included interviews with some of their voice actors
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. Other distributors released the show in other regions and languages.
ADV Films announced new High-Definition
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DVDs for release in 2005; each volume was planned have one disc of HD video and another with both DTS 5.1
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and Dolby 5.1
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audio for the standard definition video. However, these were delayed and ultimately failed to be released. Media Factory released a DVD box in spring 2007 which included a HD DVD edition of the movie, new art by Akihiro Yamada
Akihiro Yamada
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, and a re-release of the OVA episode.
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