Far Beyond Eternity

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"Far Beyond Eternity" "Time Enough For Love"

Creator:	Yutaka Izubuchi
Country:	Japan
Network:	Fuji Television^[2]
Director:	Tomoki Kyoda
Writer:	Hiroshi Ohnogi
Episode Length:	23 minutes
Episode Code:	Final movement
Episode Airdate:	2002-09-10 (s) 2002-09-11 (JST)^[1]

"Far Beyond Eternity" (遙か久遠の彼方, Haruka kuon no kanata^?, Original English: "Time Enough For Love") is the 26th, and final, episode of the RahXephon TV series.

Title references: Time Enough for Love by Heinlein; Far away (遙か, Haruka^?) and Eternity (久遠, Kuon/Quon^?), the names of two of the series' characters.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Plot
- 1.1 Locations and items
2 Production
- 2.1 Guest cast
3 Reception
4 References and notes
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Ayato wakes up on the modified La Grande Famille by René Magritte and enters the subway station, finding Quon. He asks her what to do, and promises to be gentle in the tuning.

Sayoko stabs Itsuki to death and Bähbem reveals that Sayoko was programmed to love Itsuki. Nevertheless, Itsuki says he has found his blue bird and dies content.

Prodded by Megumi, Haruka joins the tuning; as a consequence, Maya joins as well. Maya comes to terms with the fact that Ayato wants Haruka more than he wants a pure Mu world. Bähbem is robbed of his view of the tuning by a bullet from Takeshi.

Ayato defeats Quon and re-tunes the world to one where he was not separated from Haruka. They are married and have a daughter named Quon. Haruka gets off the phone with Megumi and Hiroko and Mamoru are invited to a class reunion. Ayato has just finished a painting of a girl in a yellow dress looking out over the sea. Haruka asks coyly who the girl in the picture is, and it is explained through a Coda that the girl that Ixtli copied her appearance from was a young Haruka.

[edit] Locations and items

The church and cemetery from the previous episode remain as important locations.

The intersection at Manseibashi has a metro station that has been closed since 1931.

The subway station from the first episode is again shown to be Manseibashi Subway Station. This station is in reality a temporary station in Akihabara which remained open for less than two years and has been abandoned since the early 1930s. Manseibashi means Eternity Bridge, or even more literally Ten Thousand Worlds Bridge.

[edit] Production

[edit] Guest cast

See List of RahXephon characters for regular cast appearances

Character	Japanese actor	English acting

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[edit] Reception

Cris Beveridge of Anime on DVD found the final episodes beautiful both in visual style and story, "with the raw emotions coming out of it, in both languages".^[3] Huxley also liked the conclusion: "Despite falling short of the mark in a few areas this is a satisfying conclusion to a good series."^[4] On the issue of plot resolution he wrote that RahXephon "keeps the audience guessing right up until the final credits and beyond" but that "the clues are all there" for the viewer to piece together.^[4] Anime News Network columnist Zac Bertschy called RahXephon a "paragon of responsible storytelling (...) No loose strings are left; we see the conclusion of every character’s storyline." He added that the English voice work "raised the bar across the board."^[5]

Christian Nutt thought RahXephon:Pluralitas Concentio had a better ending than this episode.^[6]