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Gyaaah! I totally get the Subaru thing now! He wasn't all the interesting in the manga, but that was probably because they didn't have a super nifty episode that was all atmospheric and moody and beautiful focused on him and his pain!
Has anyone vidded this?? With the cherry blossom petals and the puddles of rain and the rain pouring?
Um. That was really all I had to say about that.
But, eeep, so cool!
Has anyone vidded this?? With the cherry blossom petals and the puddles of rain and the rain pouring?
Um. That was really all I had to say about that.
But, eeep, so cool!
X, ep. 00-03
Sat, Aug. 7th, 2004 01:58 amI'm very confused... did episode 0 air before the first episode in the TV series? Because it's very spoilery, plus, it makes absolutely no sense at all if you haven't seen the series. I mean, I was pretty baffled, and I've read the manga. The boy was just sitting in utter confusion, wondering who all those people were.
It was also incredibly strange seeing the characters animated. As always, the style is different from the manga, and though the characters all still look like the CLAMP characters, there's a sort of flattening that happens whenever manga is animated, a reduction of all the fine inky lines of the original. Also, Kotori's bangs look very silly animated, while they look all right as squiggly lines in the manga. It's also very, very strange hearing the characters. I've seen the X movie twice, but that was five years ago, and I've been reading the manga for the past six years (or, er, rereading when CLAMP stopped writing it), so none of the characters really had voices for me.
Kamui sounds much older than I thought he would -- he actually sounds incredibly like Heero in Gundam Wing, which makes sense. I had forgotten just how homicidal and antisocial Kamui was in the first few books. But he sounds very tough-guy-ish, and I guess I was thinking of a younger, higher voice. Fuuma sounds about what I would think. Kotori, amazingly, sounds less annoying that I thought, but then, I never liked her in the manga. The anime version is faring much better with me so far, but then, I suspect that's because there has been much less interaction between Fuuma and Kamui and Kotori so far in the anime. If I remember right (which I probably don't, because I haven't reread the first 15 some books for a really long time), the first five books at least spent a great deal of time on the three, and way too much time idealizing Kotori as the perfect girl. Bleh. Gah, even her name is cute -- "Little Bird."
I wince every time Sorata speaks. He is too high-pitched. I don't mind the accent, which is actually kind of cool, but there's a nasalness to his voice that is extremely irksome. I'm actually considering listening to the dub because it annoys me so much... Sorata was one of my favorite characters, so the voice incompatibility saddens me. Arashi is much more expressive than I thought she would be -- I was thinking of something more along the lines of the monotone Ayanami Rei in Evangelion. Hinoto also sounds a little strange, but I can't quite pinpoint why (and I love the whole Arashi-dono, Yuuta-dono, etc. thing. Now I want to dig up the original language manga and see if that's there... actually there's one in the store, I should do that). I liked Nataku's voice.. I think it's a female seiyuu doing a male impression (like Kenshin and Quatre's), which is a nice way of portraying Nataku's asexuality.
I'm amazed at how much of the imagery is the same as the movie -- feathers, sakura petals, the clockwork gears. I don't remember if the imagery is in the manga originally, though it probably is. And if not, I'm quite sure it's in the artbooks. I do sort of miss the images of a glass globe shattering in the movie (and the manga?). Wow, I really should reread the manga sometime.
Speaking of which, I'm still irked by the way they brought it over. I wish they would reissue the first few volumes -- they all have those silly music-themed subtitles that are nowhere on the original, and I think they're missing the neat Tarot card imagery. Plus, I loved the starkness of the giant colored "X" on the cover and associating the color with the character on the Tarot card and the spine and the Tarot imagery. And I liked how the little spine images all flowed together into one long mural thing.
( Spoilers for the eps and the X movie )
It was also incredibly strange seeing the characters animated. As always, the style is different from the manga, and though the characters all still look like the CLAMP characters, there's a sort of flattening that happens whenever manga is animated, a reduction of all the fine inky lines of the original. Also, Kotori's bangs look very silly animated, while they look all right as squiggly lines in the manga. It's also very, very strange hearing the characters. I've seen the X movie twice, but that was five years ago, and I've been reading the manga for the past six years (or, er, rereading when CLAMP stopped writing it), so none of the characters really had voices for me.
Kamui sounds much older than I thought he would -- he actually sounds incredibly like Heero in Gundam Wing, which makes sense. I had forgotten just how homicidal and antisocial Kamui was in the first few books. But he sounds very tough-guy-ish, and I guess I was thinking of a younger, higher voice. Fuuma sounds about what I would think. Kotori, amazingly, sounds less annoying that I thought, but then, I never liked her in the manga. The anime version is faring much better with me so far, but then, I suspect that's because there has been much less interaction between Fuuma and Kamui and Kotori so far in the anime. If I remember right (which I probably don't, because I haven't reread the first 15 some books for a really long time), the first five books at least spent a great deal of time on the three, and way too much time idealizing Kotori as the perfect girl. Bleh. Gah, even her name is cute -- "Little Bird."
I wince every time Sorata speaks. He is too high-pitched. I don't mind the accent, which is actually kind of cool, but there's a nasalness to his voice that is extremely irksome. I'm actually considering listening to the dub because it annoys me so much... Sorata was one of my favorite characters, so the voice incompatibility saddens me. Arashi is much more expressive than I thought she would be -- I was thinking of something more along the lines of the monotone Ayanami Rei in Evangelion. Hinoto also sounds a little strange, but I can't quite pinpoint why (and I love the whole Arashi-dono, Yuuta-dono, etc. thing. Now I want to dig up the original language manga and see if that's there... actually there's one in the store, I should do that). I liked Nataku's voice.. I think it's a female seiyuu doing a male impression (like Kenshin and Quatre's), which is a nice way of portraying Nataku's asexuality.
I'm amazed at how much of the imagery is the same as the movie -- feathers, sakura petals, the clockwork gears. I don't remember if the imagery is in the manga originally, though it probably is. And if not, I'm quite sure it's in the artbooks. I do sort of miss the images of a glass globe shattering in the movie (and the manga?). Wow, I really should reread the manga sometime.
Speaking of which, I'm still irked by the way they brought it over. I wish they would reissue the first few volumes -- they all have those silly music-themed subtitles that are nowhere on the original, and I think they're missing the neat Tarot card imagery. Plus, I loved the starkness of the giant colored "X" on the cover and associating the color with the character on the Tarot card and the spine and the Tarot imagery. And I liked how the little spine images all flowed together into one long mural thing.
( Spoilers for the eps and the X movie )