anime: X: The Series episode 0

[meganbmoore]

 

Just watched the first episode, or rather episode 0, of the anime X.  It's essentialy a big promo for the series itself(after this is a regular 26 ep anime, and this seems to be a midseries promo thing)  The first half features a duel between two identical men in uniforms with wings-one with white wings, the other black-and swords and the tragedy of a seer who cannot go outside, and his only source of companionship is to bring people whose deaths he's foreseen into his dreams before they die(or so I gather) and the second half is what seems to be clips for the series.

I'm not entirely sure what it's about except that it's about two identical young men named Kamui-one a force of good, the other, evil-and whichever is victorious determines the fate of the world, and it looks to have several angsty romances.  That said, the visuals are some of the most beautiful I've seen in anime, and the imagery and cinematography are amazing.

Also?  It's in love with feathers.  Seriously.

Went hunting on youtube for a non-spoilery MV, and the MV that made me decide to check out the series.

The one that made me check it out, basically a bunch of anime OTPs, including Kyo/Tohru, Shuri/Sarasa, Aya/Toya, Tamahome/Miaka and several others(including Sanzo/Goku, but we won't go there)

 

 

Non-spoilery vid(I avoided any that mentioned spoilers)
   Youtube or LJ one is being a pain and not including this vid when I post, so here's the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtEnvCXn9ew

I'll try to fix it in the morning.

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Comments

[aoimidori.livejournal.com]

I fell in love with X the first time I saw it, probably because I was a huge CLAMP fan then. The manga, despite being unfinished, is still way better than the series ever was though, IMO. (It was the movie I saw first, actually, and it just made me feel WTF by the end, but X is a series which ends differently in every medium it's available.)

Also, Sorata/Arashi is my Tragic OTP.

[chaos00tryza.livejournal.com]

MV's will do that to "potential fans"
Actually, I wrote my first "ff.net" fic because of some final fantasy 8 "AMV" and the reveiws were all a positve! So much for playing RPGs...