X-MEN Animated Series by Madhouse (Part One Launched) *UPDATE* Video Has Been Pulled
UPDATED: If you check my blog regularly, you would have been able to see the video of the first episode, which has since been pulled from Youtube (closest you'll get are the screengrabs shown below). Instead, we have the opening credits of the serial shown above instead (please do not pull it).
Jean Grey in "Dark Phoenix" rendered in Anime-style = awesome experience! As is the viewing of Episode One of the Japanese animated X-MEN, shown here in 2-parts, booth with English-subtitles. We jump into the world of X-Men in a flashback of a battle which ended with the death of Phoenix, and the story resumes a year later. "Drama", Much? Am pretty jazzed Hisako aka "Armor" is in this, with the characters and premise following much of Joss Wheldon's version of "The Astonishing X-Men", which delights me even more (Best X-Men Run Evah!)
Made by Japanese animation house "Madhouse" (who also did Wolverine and Iron Man), the animation series has debuted on Animax-Japan on April 1st (we posted a teaser HERE previously / and re[posted below), and this is an animated X-Men I would love to see to the end. Crossing my fingers this reaches Animax-Asia in Singapore cable
Plot Summary: The X-Men are a team of elite super-powered mutants gathered by Professor X to protect ordinary humans even as they are persecuted by them. In the wake of the death of one of their own, however, the team has stopped operations for a whole year. Then Professor X receives word of a mutant girl's mysterious disappearance in Japan. Sensing that something larger is afoot, he reassembles the team and sends them to investigate. They uncover a connection between her disappearance and an anti-mutant group known as the U-Men.
