Ranked #2550

X OVA

X is basically about an underground war between two opposite, er, cults. It's all very dramatic, sweeping, and extravagant, but I felt that this movie had unfulfilled potential. For example, the story was fascinating, but the ending, while dramatic enough to suit such a fantastical film, was ultimately unsatisfying and made useless all that effort taken to build the audience's interest in the plot. Expect a great deal of angst along with themes of sacrifice, duology, etc. It's not a light anime. The art is pretty and elaborate, typically CLAMP. Each character is painstakingly drawn and varies widely in age (which is nice). I don't particularly remember the music, but the same composer produced the X TV music (which was a grand orchestra score very suited to a war in a magical/fantasy setting), so it can't be bad. I would have liked to delve more into each character's story, but not bad for a movie. read more

To me, X the movie was far more enjoyable than the series, contrary to the belief of many viewers who will criticize on first thought what I just said

But this is true partly due to the f act that the (Shoujo) flair that was so prominent -and in my humble opinion- needlessly abundant in the variety of scenes in the series, was nearly diminished in the movie.

Truth is, I lamented -after seeing the movie- that the series was no so portrayed, but nothing is perfect, had the series been so much as close to the movie, the whole thing would have differed.

To me, it was unfathomable why people favored the series, and not the movie adaptation.

That being said,

Story:
The story represented a big part of the series, the tragedy of one's struggle against his destiny, which comprised two counterparts, the choice of raging against destiny, and the choice of accepting destiny as it is, and the conclusion in the end which is left to the viewer's sense of interpretation.

Art:
the art was so much entertaining, and (in my opinion) was much more enjoyable than the series, it felt explosive and unique to that era of artwork, considering the action scenes and the magical abilities and powers illustrated in the beautiful sprites portrayed on the screen.

Sound:
the audio was somewhat weird, not like the series which presented a wider variety of soundtracks in the intro and the scenes in the episodes themselves,
but it was that kind of weird that befits an eerily tragic atmosphere, being a middle-eastern man myself, I found it totally similar to an old Arabic movie which comprised tragedy as its major component.
so magical and strange in impact especially when the content was so much in tune.

Character:
just like the series, the characters were very much interesting, and though there were new characters introduced or missing from the series, the fact remains the same, which is that the plot takes place, and the tragedy circles all the characters in a twisted fashion appropriate to the main theme and main dilemma the series AND the movie approaches.


Enjoyment:
I truly enjoyed the movie, wish I could say the same about the series, which had it been away from the guy x guy heavy references, would have in my opinion a more literal impact on the world of anime read more