X: The Movie

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X: The Movie

Copyright: Kadokawa Shoten

Length: 90 minutes

Genre: action / fantasy

Rating: NR, Parental Guidance Suggested

Format: Original Japanese Dialog (LD/VHS)

Original story by: CLAMP Director: Taro Rin Character Design: Nobuteru Yuki

The year is 1999, the Year of Destiny, and the beginning of the end of the world. The future of humanity rests on one young man, Kamui, who must destroy either the Dragons of Earth or the Dragons of Heaven -- two opposing armies. He alone must decide whether humanity should be destroyed to create a purified universe, or whether it should be protected to preserve civilization

Parental Guidance Advised - Extreme violence

'A Parent's Guide to Anime' summary

X is probably one of my favorite anime movies of all time. It's based on a manga of the same name by CLAMP. However the movie version tells a slightly different story than the as yet uncompleted manga (which is currently compiled in 10 tankabon).

The shojo animation by CLAMP and the character designs by Nobuteru Yuki are absolutely beautiful and are far better than the animation in some of CLAMP's earlier OAVs (i.e. RG Veda and Tokyo Babylon). The music is also excellent with the dark and gloomy soundtrack complementing the gothic feel of X perfectly. However the movie's plot suffers from two major problems. Firstly, the plot is rather slim in comparison with the X manga, sacrificing a lot of the character interaction and backstory to fit the whole manga series onto one 90 minute video. Because of this it also suffers from the same problem as RG Veda, in that there are a few parts of the movie which are seemingly unrelated to the rest of the film. It would have been much better if X had been made into a series of OAVs instead of a single movie to preserve the manga's story in its entirety. The only other problem that I had with X was that the main character, Kamui, came off as a wimp because of his voice actor. The other characters were voiced excellently but Kamui seemed to lose a lot of resentment against his fate and because of this the feeling of angst that pervades the manga series in less evident in the movie version of X.

- JH, 98.02.24


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