Romeo X Juliet

[amanuensis1]

I finished the anime series Romeo X Juliet. The series feels like a cross-breeding between Romeo and Juliet, Zorro, Dune, and Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and the effect is really, really fun. I think I enjoyed it more than I would have another straight adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, because while I love clever changes in setting and interpretation for Shakespeare adaptations, I also love the original text and have picky standards if one is going to deviate from it.

So, yeah, give me a royal house betrayed and an infant smuggled away in secret, give me a masked crusader to fight injustice, give me illegitimate siblings, winged horses, a sacred tree that sustains the heart of the world, and, sure, why not, give me Shakespeare himself as a character in his own story and you can still call the characters Romeo and Juliet if the romance is as sweetly, beautifully done along the same original lines and if the story's themes are still eternal love and how love, not vengeance, breeds peace. And do it with animation this gorgeous, yes, please.

Comments

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

I've already downloaded it. It's on my 'to watch' list. But keep up the good job seducing me with the anime you liked :) I'm watching that Maou thing now. Not done any well but is very entertaining. I'm enjoying it :)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Yes, I admit I don't think KKM is ground-breaking in the way of animation or of plot, but, migod, the amount of "We know our core audience is here hoping to be teased with the yaoi so we'll give it to you at every turn" is just not to be missed. I hope you like R x J as well; it's really beautiful!

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

The stills you posted look very well-drawn. I expect to like the animation. We'll see how I like the "new and improved" R&J :)

[rzncu.livejournal.com]

best thing about this anime for me just had to be their outfit!!! XD i wish there's more cosplaying going on

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

They had lovely clothing--I love Juliet's outfits as Odin, particularly; she's so cutely gamine in them.

[mosrael.livejournal.com]

Hey, so, um... I know a show you might like? It's only 13 eps long, v. manageable.

Full disclosure: I saw Fandomsecret's #129 and something just clicked in my brain... It's hard to explain. Lemme know what you think. :D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Today's 129? The CyberSix one?

[mosrael.livejournal.com]

*nods* That's the one. It made my mind go all kinds of places, and it occurred to me that you might enjoy that sort of thing... Not to mention, it's one of my oldest fandoms, and I love introducing it to new people. <3

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I'll have to take a look at it, thank you!

[mosrael.livejournal.com]

Cool! ^__^ It can be difficult to find the eps themselves, since it's been off the air so long, but I got mine here (http://community.livejournal.com/cyber6/25049.html#cutid1/) and they're decent quality-wise. If you're interested in the graphic novel it was based on, I have a link to the first volume's scanlation.

*I'm not obsessed, I swear. I just have a lot of free time. :)*

[theexecutioner.livejournal.com]

You are such a dirty, dirty person.


I Love EET!!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Isn't it lovely? *loves being dirty dirty*

[robotlove.livejournal.com]

How embarrassing is it that I only looked this up sometime back in the first place because ROMEO is ROLO? x3

I need to properly watch it then, if it's really as good as you say it is 8)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Romeo is Rolo? How bad a fangirl am I that I didn't know that?? :D