X/1999

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Synonyms: X 1999, X (1996)

Japanese: エックス, X/1999

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Aug 3, 1996

Producers: Kadokawa Shoten, Victor Entertainment, Marubeni, Movic, Sega, Shelty

Licensors: Manga Entertainment

Studios: Madhouse

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Theme: Super Power

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 1 hr. 37 min.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 6.58¹ (scored by 18,755 users)

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Ranked: #6548²

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Popularity: #3584

Members: 38,960

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At the millennial edge, the concluding battle for humanity's future is staged. Kamui Shirou's destiny has been decided as he returns to Tokyo to face his ultimate challenge. The Dragon of Heaven, defenders of the Earth, stand ready to protect the world from the Dragon of Earth, the seven angels of legend, who embrace the devastation of the planet to bring about its purification. Now Kamui must decide which side to fight for although he finds the idea utterly unappealing. It isn't until realizing that his two childhood friends, Fuma and Kotori Monou, are in grievous peril that Kamui decides to step into his fated position in the climactic struggle of the Year of Destiny: 1999.

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Shirou, Kamui

Main

Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Monou, Fuuma

Main

Narita, Ken
Japanese

Sumeragi, Subaru

Supporting

Miyazaki, Issei
Japanese

Sakurazuka, Seishirou

Supporting

Furusawa, Tohru
Japanese

Arisugawa, Sorata

Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Kishu, Arashi

Supporting

Shinohara, Emi
Japanese

Kasumi, Karen

Supporting

Koyama, Mami
Japanese

Monou, Kotori

Supporting

Iwao, Junko
Japanese

Nekoi, Yuzuriha

Supporting

Yukana
Japanese

Yatoji, Satsuki

Supporting

Mitsuishi, Kotono
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Maruyama, Masao

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Rintarou

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Endou, Takuji

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X Japan

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"Forever Love" by X Japan

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Jul 16, 2021

ReallyBigMistake

Recommended

The movie is a much better adaptation than the series. It has excellent storytelling, huge proportions, and one of the best endings of its time. The entire point of the movie is that human actions are ultimately pointless. Keep in mind that I saw the movie before the horrible anime series that was a complete betrayal. The movie is very dark and fatalistic, it is about the future being inevitable and human actions being insufficient to prevent it from coming about. Everyone who is pulled into this cycle of death and destruction in the never ending war between the Dragons of Heaven and the Dragons ... of Earth is killed, and they are killed simply so that their deaths can have no meaning. The only ones who ever know that some people died to save mankind from the people who died to try ending mankind are the ones who kill each other. For everyone else, life moves on as if nothing happened. All the loss is encapsulated and known only to Kamui. Kamui himself has only two goals, to protect his childhood friend Fuma and his childhood love Kotari. His choice to become a Dragon of Heavens is based on his desire to protect the only two things he cares about, his childhood friend Fuma and his childhood love Kotari and yet this very choice also dooms those two to die. Kamui must kill his best friend in order to protect his best friend. If he refused to kill his best friend then he would doom his best friend to death.

Or looked at another way, Kamui must choose to kill the only two people he cares about in order to protect the billions of people living in the world he doesn't care about. He must lose everything and everyone he has ever known in order for everything to stay the same. In that sense the story is as much about fatalism as it is about a misinterpreted prophecy. The actual eternal war between the Dragons of Heaven and Earth becomes merely the fever dream of a false prophet, a false prophet who sends out people to die simply so that everything can remain the same as it would had they not died. There is no eternal war, just 7 people who kill each other because they believed that a little girl could see the future. And the future she saw was simply them dying. Thus the locations she believes are the lynchpin they need to protect in order to protect Tokyo are actually the places were the two sides will kill each other. The prophecy is self fulfilling, but it wasn't a prophecy about dragons and some eternal war, it was just a prophecy about 14 people dying because of a prophecy about them dying.

The movie has many many levels to it. The tv series is mostly all surface.

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Jul 24, 2019

Starfleeting

Mixed Feelings

So, I finally found a full version of this movie and I can't say I like it much more than the first time around. The only reason I'm giving this the overall rating that I am is because the animation and art is lovely to look at. If you love animation, this is a great-looking movie.

Aside from that, I can't say it does well as a film. Even if I was more familiar with the characters (and had watched the tv show prior to this), I don't think I would be all that satisfied when barely anyone has a decent amount of time. It just ...

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Sep 22, 2010

IceAndCream

Not Recommended

Let me be clear: this review is NOT for the 24-episode series "X", or even for the short prequel that was released just prior to it. Both of those are excellent animes. This is for a full length movie version that was released even before that.

Frankly, it looks like a class project done by animation students. Seriously. If a friend of mine was studying animation, and showed it to me as part of his "demo reel," I would be impressed. But it's nowhere near the quality you would expect from a distributed anime made in the 90's.

Secondly, the ...

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