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.
This Anime took a good amount of time to deliver the true justice to the characters in a format that is still Anime however it still isnt what many would expect...
The story is dramatic brining in high thrilling action and pushing the X-men abilities to show the shear graphical prowess of the Art team of this Anime....
The voices are done well with a lot of emotion in each line... but I felt that several of the voices where a little odd.. Woulverine for example is done well but does not feel like the verile strong voice the original Cartoon series put into it. A good actor but it doesnt feel like the character it should be...
Like almost all Anime it tries to deveolpe the characters by pushing a long and strong continual story line.... although this is a fresh direction from the original Series.... the first few episodes are long and annoyingly unsatisfing to the curosity of what the heck is going on...
The story in short is new and fresh but deals with directly getting rid of some characters while bluntly showing some abundant weaknesses to many of the characters and while intertaining and humanising it also lacks the sufficant introduction that was necessary to the original Cartoon series...
In summry:
If you watch the originals I would caution you to not judge this series so quickly. It is a good Anime however its a new direction rather than a challenge to the original.. I like to view it as one would view Batman Beyond to the original Batman series... -which is an adept example......I however am still interested in where the story is heading....