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This was a terrible show...Let's talk about a better show, X-MEN ANIME

posted 14 years ago by zombiehax
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I watched the pilot today. What are your thoughts on the X-Men anime. Here are my thoughts:

I thought the pilot was loyal to the characters and setting but I did have a few complaints. My first complaint was Storm...they seemed to have made her much younger and she has a very young voice actress. I don't have a problem with they are attempting to portray a young Storm, the one that was recruited right after she met Xavier, or if this is just the traditional style of Japanese anime making everyone younger with giant breasts.

Her character so far seemed loyal to the comics. She's one of the few who can tame Wolverine and she's not taking a backseat to everyone else like she did in this show. She has a good amount of lines and input.

Cylcops - Another one of my complaints. He was mopy in The Last Stand and mopy in this...But hopefully he'll have his chance to shine. This is the third time we've seen the "mopy Cyclops" so I'm getting a little tired of it but hopefully they don't bring up Jean much in the show.

Xavier - His school seems rather empty and it's never explained why...For some reason just no one's there.

Action - Wasn't much action in the pilot and I'm hoping they will have some very nice fight scenes.

Animation - Was a little stiff at times, especially in the airport scene with Wolverine the animation just seems...off...hopefully since it's just the pilot the quality will increase over the course of the episodes.

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[–] SilentDues 14 years ago

X-Men Anime is pretty awesome, not my favorite of the animated universes, that honor still goes to 90s X-Men. What I love most is the amazing animation quality, every episode seriously looks like the production of a big budget 2D animated film. Also, the fact Logan doesn't over-shadow every other character like in most of the live-action movies and the Wolverine & X-Men series, big plus. But I do have negative feelings for it:

-Nowhere near enough levity. Other than a fun moment in the pilot involving Logan at an air-port, it takes several episodes before genuine levity is touched on in this series, which I think is a must for an X-Men story. This results in a very dark and damn depressing story, now I'm not saying tone it down for kids or act like there's gonna be a happy ending, but find a nice balance of iconic X-Men humor and drama.

-Cyclops. His whole "Captain Depression" status, as I call it, just seems very old by this point after X3: Last Stand and the Wolverine & X-Men series. I mean come on, it's been a year since Jean was killed and just like the start of Wolverine & X-Men, he's brooding in the middle of nowhere doing ziltch. Give the guy some damn zoloft, a slap upside the head, and tell him to move the hell on.

-The U-Men. I really hate this concept for a "big bad" in general, the U-Men -- like Sebastian Shaw in First Class -- just seem to be evil for the sake of it with no real motivation. They couldn't have picked a less cliche name for their group than one ripping off the X-Men and seriously need to find better lives for themselves than what they do. At least if it were Magneto, I'd know where the bad guy is coming from.

-Only 12 episodes. Really limits the story, especially compared to the prior animated universes, going as high as 76 episodes and as low as 26.

On the subject of Wolverine & The X-Men, I really like this series. Sure it's got some eps obviously toned down for kids, but then we get others like the first episode with some surprising mature tones. Seeing Logan save a mixed family (in addition to how the white side subsequently treats him), torture of an innocent man, and the seeming demise of two main characters. I also really like the elements borrowed from the movies, such as the Cerebro set, Logan's character design, voices/personalities of Charles and Erik, as well as Gambit not being a member of the team just yet. The entire 26 ep run also tells a very intriguing mystery and arc that while leaving an open-ended cliffhanger-ish end, still wrapped up nicely.

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[–] Browncoat_26 13 years ago

Are you talking about the x-men anime that's going to be on G4? All I can find on the guide is Wolverine and Iron Man no Blade or X-men. Are you guys located somewhere else where it's showing i'm in the U.S. Please point me in the right direction? haha

[–] GrownUpKid 13 years ago

The subs streamed on the net way before the English dubs premiered on G4.

[–] Browncoat_26 13 years ago

oooh!! could you perhaps point me in the right direction?
please and thank you

[–] Leonhart_v2 13 years ago

oooh!! could you perhaps point me in the right direction?
please and thank you

I sent you the link in private message.

[–] Browncoat_26 13 years ago

Thanks!!

[–] zombiehax 13 years ago

The X-Men anime is so good! Especially compared to this god-awful crap!

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[–] wantutosigh 13 years ago

Any clues if they will make another season of this? I would really need an introduction of Gambit and Rogue to get interested in this.

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[–] flaredare911 13 years ago

I honestly hated the X-men anime. I hated how weak they portrayed Storm (most of the time), I hated Storms look and voice, I hated how just about every episode had a disturbing, and very unpleasing transformation of some sort into some gross bug type looking creature. X-men is not supposed to be about big monsters attacking the planet. It's supposed to be about mutants fighting for the rights, and fighting sentinels and other mutants. Personally I loved X-men Evolution and Wolverine and the X-men. I slightly liked X-men 90s, but absolutely hated X-men anime. Only thing I liked about X-men anime were the sound effects, and how Emma Frost looked in her Diamond Form.

[–] Viltrumite 13 years ago

I don't much care for the X-Men anime. Granted, I've only seen a couple of episodes, but it looks damn ugly, I don't find it all that engaging, plus I'm still pissed off about W&TXM's cancellation.

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[–] legendkillinpeopleschamp 12 years ago

X-Men anime is boring. I watch the 1st 5 eps and dropped it, I don't care about the new character or the U-Men. This show was better and wrongfully cancelled.

[–] DarthBill 12 years ago

I'm only 3 episodes in on the anime and I already find it more compelling than W&TXM. At least Cyclops and the X-Men who aren't Wolverine have some heart and soul to them here, and the anime actually gives me reason to believe in the grief Cyclops feels over losing Jean - two things W&TXM failed to do.

[–] tim_cantebury 12 years ago

The anime is cliche. The dialogue is contrived with too much mellow dramatic posturing(typical pretentious anime dialogue). It's just... Bad (well the writing was). The art style is top notch though and the animation is excellent when there are action scenes.

Despite of what some of you might think of W&txm characters should have been based on the comics, it had a well crafted story arc with dynamic characters.
It's a shame there won't be a second season.

[–] DarthBill 12 years ago

Despite of what some of you might think of W&txm characters should have been based on the comics, it had a well crafted story arc with dynamic characters.

Hard to believe when most of the characters were left under-developed and precious screen time was wasted on the X-Men being punked by ninjas and G-rated fights with the Hulk. I say good riddance.

[–] tim_cantebury 12 years ago

Its season one. The characters were introduced and their interrelationships were made apparent. The frame work was laid out and the fleshing out would have come in the subsequent seasons. It's called character "development" for a reason. It doesn't happen in one episode or one season. Characters development happens over a period, and should have an arc.

If it was intended to only be one season, then yes, I could agree they were under developed. But it wasn't. Characters have to undergo a change, over time, and this is how their individual stories (development) unfold. It doesn't go; "boom", Character developed over with, now we can concentrate on the plot. This is what the anime did. If you look at how the team assembles in the anime, it just happens in one episode. It was contrived. In w+xm, it was methodical and it was the plot that drove them from their individual motivations to come together. That is good writing.

You have to keep in mind this is intended for younger viewers. It would have been a bad idea to give season one a back story overload. Character development has to be intertwined with the plot narrative or else it just becomes contrived. This is, I find, is the flaw many anime series suffer from, not just the x-men one.

[–] wantutosigh 12 years ago

"Hard to believe when most of the characters were left under-developed and precious screen time was wasted on the X-Men being punked by ninjas and G-rated fights with the Hulk. I say good riddance."

^^^This.

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[–] zombiehax 12 years ago

bump

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[–] nitrourea 12 years ago

The anime was cringe worthy. Lets see the mystery at the beginning was good, cold dark mountain, in a isolated town doing secret experiments sounded interesting but then the end 3 - 4 episodes were a let down starting with the fight were mastermind gets beaten by emma, interrupted by i forgot who, but when she was going to finish him off, whoever it was just kept on interrupting. Dont you hate it when that happens. And then his goon shows up, one ugly u men after another, more wolverine screaming, and took another episode for it to be over.

So now they are at the final door where all the mystery will be solved, but no lets stand around and observe the door, come up some theories as to why there is a door there, ignore the fact that the villain boss just escaped past it, and then until they finally decided to open the door, that lady professor comes in, tells them to open the door.

Oh yeah so the secret behind the door was that stupid kid, just couldnt stop screaming, oh man so very very annoying. And whole thing with the world ending because of the kid, thats cliche. The whole time I was like someone please just kill the kid, they killed Jane a couple of times when she was phoneix, this is not that different.