Audience reviews
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RegiGiygas
Even some of my least favorite X-men comic arcs I've read aren't as bland as this anime. Completely lacking in 'cool factor' with only an artificial lightheartedness that results in zero charm. The cast has an old school X-men level of one dimensionality—every character boiled down to their basest and most cliche form, and Wolverine isn't even a quarter as badass as he should be. Also irritating is the closing credits visualizer being a slow scroll upward of a bunch of cool as hell classic X-men villains, none of which will be making an appearance in this show. Weak animation, generic tier score for the intro and outro, and not bad enough to even be funny. X-Men anime sounded sick on paper, so this is an impressive fumble.
Read at the sourceBrave_Owl
Now, I am not the biggest X-Men fan, but they are great when done right; I loved the Claremont run as much as the next guy and even things like Children of the Atom, but the mutant team is prone to some iffy writing.
I started this series while waiting for new episodes of X-Men '97 so jumping from Erik's "hat keine angst" to this series's more anime-ish tropes was a bit jarring.
The series has some really good designs finding a middle ground between 2010s anime, the original comic book material and the 2000s X-Men movies: the uniform is a leather jacket for everyone except Storm, Wolverine doesn't have his mask except for a flashback yet Beast looks fenomenal and by God Almighty is Storm looking FINE in this anime, one of my favourite designs for Storm ever.
The art style is on the "let's…
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To Madhouse's credit, they could do no wrong in creating an Marvel anime, and a X-Men anime is a neat idea...on paper. Upon execution, it was a golden turd that was all over the place. Let me explain why:
Story:
Let's talk about the elephant in the room and that is the story starts off at the end of the Dark Phoenix Saga. At first, I was like "oh, this show is going to adapt the Dark Phoenix Saga? That should be interesting". But then reality hits you and then you truly see what it's not what it seemed like. Instead it's an all original plot that has somewhat a bridge to the Mid 2000s X-Men movies and I was like "seriously"? TBH, I do think that the Dark Phoenix Saga, in the comics at least, was one of the most overrated story arcs in comics history. I do think that Messiah Complex, House…
Read at the sourceTrashDax
I don't know much about X-Men, I'm not a comic book fan and I don't watch the movies. But maybe your interested in how an "outsider" feels about this anime.
Story:
Not every story in a comic can be of epic proportions, so picking one that has ties to Japan for a 12 episode anime adaptation was probably a good idea. Of course I have no idea how well it was transferred into this. The story itself is interesting, it does not rely on the "evil appears, fight it" formula, which is nice. Some things in the latter parts were a little weird logically, but in a world with mutants I guess you just have to accept some things.
7/10
Art:
X-Men tries very hard to be both, a western cartoon and an anime. This leads to some rather ugly facial expressions, but on the bright side, the action sequences loo…
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Part of a 4-series deal between Marvel and Madhouse, I eagerly anticipated the X-men anime. Based off a comic that features my favorite Marvel Comic team, the X-men anime focuses on the titular group as they re-form several years after the death of a teammate (for your comic fans, guess who gets to kick the bucket). In the process of investigating the exploits of a psychotic cult known as the U-Men, the X-men recruit two new female teammates and discover there's more to the U-Men's plot then meets the eye . . .
Story (6/10): The story of the X-men anime is a mish-mash of various comic book story-lines, only set in Japan instead of the U.S. The story is fairly well-structured, and each episode leaves viewers guessing at what the outcome of the next episode will be. It keeps you hooked to t…
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Let's go back to our old friends at Madhouse in their attempts to adapt Marvel comics. I've already looked at Blade, which was okay, but let's look at another attempt. In this case, the X-men, a super hero team that hasn't been well written in the comics proper since Chris Claremont's run ended. Which is a pity since Claremont's run made them my favourite super hero team. It's not like they've gotten all bad writers either. They got Grant Morrison and he can do really well when writing original works or when given proper oversight. Unfortunately, they let him off his leash for his run on the book and he piddled on everything, as Grant Morrison is wont to do. Can Madhouse succeed where so many have failed? I'm going to go full blown nerd and take a look.
Story:
Our tale opens up with the…
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OK, we are into one of the last Marvel Anime series for me to review (Yeah, yeah, I know the Blade anime was the last one but I already reviewed that one first) and of course, this one is about the X-Men, one of Marvel’s first team of mutant superheroes created at the time of Civil Rights Movement and also touching upon reflecting social issues that are still present to this very day. The comic book series is created by Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby and the franchise lasted over 50 years and counting, spawning over countless animated TV series, videogames and of course, the popular film franchise that’s still going today with the (at the time of writing this review) upcoming movie Days of Future Past and Apocalypse in 2016.
Following the death of Jean Grey (who was being controlled…
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The third of the Marvel Comics-based anime titles made by Madhouse, this is perhaps the best of the adaptations they've done focusing on the titular group dealing with an anti-mutant group called the U-Men causing troubles for mutants in Japan. This is perhaps the better plot-driven title among the Marvel/ Madhouse animated collaborations as the X-Men come across hints that things aren't as they seem on the surface with U-Men activity as they come across a virus affecting the local mutant populace and a part of Japan that is mysteriously cloaked from electronic and telepathic detection. It also has some character developments focused on with Cyclops as he slowly tries to move on from the loss of his girlfriend, Jean Grey, who is seen killed at the start of the series and tries to gain trus…
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I liked the art style for sure, it's what initially drew me in. That and seeing a trailer that showed basically the first 5 minutes of the first episode. I thought, "If they're going to follow the Phoenix story, this will be freaking amazing." I was sorely disappointed.
Before I dive in deeper, i will say i did actually enjoy the show. I had fun watching it, mostly due to how over the top and campy it seemed. I'm not a stickler for what's canon and what isn't and thus, I just chalked it up as a side story or alternate universe story and had fun with it.
That being said, I did have a lot of problems with it.
Generally, I hate the plot device of "An old friend in *country* called and we must now spend all our time there." It seems like fishing for fans just to say, "See? It's not about *c…
Read at the sourceVoidHawk
As someone who saw ALL animation versions fom the X-men since the 80's, and free of any animations puritanism over antiques, I must say this was BY FAR the best X-men adaptation I have ever seen. Art, characterization, sound...all melded perfectly and I just do not score it higher because the story itself was common...but given that Marvel creates some Universal Threatr every week or so, that was not something to blame the anime, but more the Ethos of Marvel characters and Universe.
I loved this anime, and I sincerely hope they make a Season II, then III and so on...
I would like to see Phoenix again, then Lilandra and the Shiar Empire and others...lets see.
I really think this trend with heroes is a really refreshing one using the real masters of animation to create something better…
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To say X-Men is the best of Madhouse's Marvel anime is to damn the series with the faintest of praises. Yes, it's better than the likes of Iron Man, but there's still something vital missing here.
I want to say that that something is heart, but each episode's so lovingly animated that this time I can't really accuse Madhouse of not trying. Indeed, I kept up with X-Men for that reason: this is a fluid and excitingly drawn series that, in the end, just never convinces us that these characters are worth caring for.
Cyclops is the angsty pretty boy and Wolverine the wise-cracking bastard; that's all we get from them. This wouldn't be problem if the series didn't go out of its way to try the viewer's emotion, but there's just too much empty melodrama here, and as it gradually becomes clear…
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I gotta say. Marvel's efforts to bring their property to the Japanese audience is not exactly paying off. With low sales, continued hatred against anything non-Japanese, and "OH HEY THAT STORM IS SEXY!!"
But IMMHO, what's created between Marvel and Madhouse continues to be the bright spot amongst the garbage of animu created for pedophiles, NEETs, players of virtual novels, haters of real life, and jerks in general.
There was a lot of stuff that (didn't) happen: Sunfire (another Japanese mutant) didn't appear. The "guest appearances" didn't take up a good chunk of an episode like Logan did in Ironman and Cyclops did in "Certain Mutant Logan." And didn't Xavier had another son named David? (You know... Chuck seems to "get around" a lot for someone stuck on a wheelchair. :P )
I mean, hey.…
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I'm a huge X-men fan. What makes that rough for me is that I'm also a big believer in canon and continuity. In other words, movies like Wolverine: Origins and the First Class movies just make me angry, as a fan that spends half the time trying to get backstories right. Which is why I was so happy with the two X-men based anime, Wolverine and X-men. They were perfectly done, perfectly converted from West to East.
STORY: I had to laugh out loud. When the anime started it was like reliving my childhood, watching an updated (and non-English) version of X-men: The Animated Series. The thing about continuity in comics that are long running is that you can't simply can't explain things like the Phoenix in 5 minutes. So they manipulate stories, characters, and the like to use them in their own w…
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