My interest in X-Men didn’t stem from the comics like many other fans of the franchise but actually from watching the Saturday morning cartoon while growing up and collecting the toys which along with those from transformers were all the rage during my childhood. All my friends had their favourite characters and we’d go on for hours explaining why that chaacter would own that character – like a true boring geek I was a Professor Charles Francis Xavier fan.
X-Men is the latest of a string of Marvel franchises getting the “anime” treatment and debuting in Japan after Iron Man (which I forgot to review o.O, but will shortly) and Wolverine (which looked too metro-sexual for me but I may still watch). Check out a trailer, character art and screenshots below.
Your thoughts and Favourite X-Men character?
I surfed into some character art and screenshots today that I thought I’d share. I’d also love to hear what you think about this upcoming series as well as who is your favourite X-Men character.
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I think the last character is Armour. She’s Japanese in the comic so would kind of explain why they included her! when I bagan reading this I was so ready to boast about how Cyclops is my favourite character but after seeing his character art … maybe not! Only joking he is still as awesome as ever (even in skinny jeans!)
Thanks for the post!! I’m actually really looking forward to see if they do X-Men justice because I’m a massive fan, but only time will tell!
a Japanese teenager mutant huh? Thanks for sharing this, looks like I have another reason to check it out.
At least Wolverine does look like an emo anorexic teen like in the Japanese Wolverine [shocked]
I love xmen because of the cartoons over the years as well. Just disappointed in the quality of them since the original. Will definitely watch this 1too even if Cyclops looks like he turned gay because Jean dumped him. Lol
Madhouse is doing this and if it’s anything like IRON MAN it’ll probably be as exciting as watching water boil plus If they wanted a Japanese character I would’ve chose Surge (Noriko Ashida).
On the topic of my favorite x-man.. I guess it would’ve have to be X-23. My favorite mutant Nyx doesn’t count because she isn’t an X-Man.
X-23 would definitely be my 2nd favourite! and hopefully this is nothing like Ironman or Wolverine coz they were the worst!!
I hope Jamaica survived the Tsunami.
Greetings from friends in Rwanda
Tsunami? We don’t experience those natural disasters in this region, or at least not to my knowledge where are in the realm of destructive “Wind Forces”
Am I the only one that thinks Armour looks like Hinata?
Next time more info! I originally thought your where talking about Himawari! but then quick google gave me the Naruto character.
But yes they do share a resemblance.
Armor is a pretty interesting character from what I’ve seen of her in the comics. Her power is pretty cool, if you ask me.
I think the anime will be better than both Iron Man & Wolverine because of the universal appeal of the characters. Though it’s a wait & see.
Cyclops looks effeminate because Japan seems to like him a lot.
I’ve never heard of Armor before this post so looking forward to learning about her
About to watch the first episode you want first impressions here or will you be doing one and I
can just tag on my slightly larger than average comment there?
So I watched the first episode and I’m impressed so far at least with the Artwork and the kind of destructive power scenes that animes execute so well, what I have noticed from this anime that may make it one of the best X-Men ever is that most X-Men are locked in a specific X-Men Universe and a limited to certain I dare say rules.
The little girl is from “Astonish X-Men” (or at least that is where I first saw her) which is one of the newer comics and from the intro and outro I have seen “Onslaught” & “Genocide” so far right there we have already seen a combination of several different X-Men Universes into this one anime which is something that is not usually practiced and that is why if done well this may 1. Have the ability to produce a lot of episodes and 2. The ability to have several different interesting variations that the other X-Men Universes could not produce because they were all individual entities.
Didn’t the scene when they drive onto a patio annoy you? How does one even fit a car up the stairs?
I have only seen the first episode so far CS and I’m use to watching animes where Swordsmen cut buildings in half with their swords [smile] (which has yet to come in physical contact with the building I may add) so I don’t think a car being driven up a patio would have deterred/annoyed me in anyway, but only time will tell I’ll let you know when I come across that scene.
13 mins into the first episode.
Hhhmm I think I may have mixed up the episodes or you may have their was no real action in the first episode just flash backs of what occurred with the incident (which I shall not mention just for those who have yet watched it.)
It’s not an action scene just a normal physics defying motorcycle and car pull up then everyone, well almost everyone, comes back and says hello to chuck.