{"id":500,"date":"2002-05-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/05\/24\/ask-john-how-much-x-is-there\/"},"modified":"2002-05-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-24T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-how-much-x-is-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-how-much-x-is-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: How Much X is There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nIs X only a manga? I know that there was an X movie made, but is there a television series of X?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nX of course began as a manga series.  At present, there are 17 collected volumes of manga, and the series is still ongoing. In 1996, Sony released a 30 minute &#8220;OAV&#8221; titled X<sup>2<\/sup>, pronounced &#8220;Double X.&#8221;  This video consisted of roughly 25 minutes of slideshow stills of X illustrations and paintings by CLAMP set to the music of popular J-pop rock band X-Japan. The final 2 and a half minutes of X<sup>2<\/sup> was an anime music video directed by Rintaro with character designs by Nobeteru Yuuki.  This Double X music video, set to the pulsing beat of X-Japan&#8217;s rock anthem &#8220;X,&#8221; was a bloody and action packed summarization of the X manga into 2 minutes of anime. Three years later Rintaro and Nobeteru Yuuki expanded the Double X music video into the feature length theatrical X movie. The movie is commonly praised for its stunning art design and animation, and commonly criticized for its lack of characterization and its massive exclusions of plot points from the manga.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2000 plans for an X TV series were announced to the Japanese press. It would be over a year before the long delayed TV series actually premiered in Japan.  In preparation for the TV series, a 30 minute OAV titled X: Yochou (X: An Omen) premiered on the Japanese market in August 2001. This OAV introduced Japanese audiences to the X TV series characters and production staff through an all new prologue episode starring the &#8220;dream gazer&#8221; prophet Kakyou. This prologue led into the X TV series that began on October 3rd, 2001 and continued through 24 episodes. With well over 10 times as much running time as the X movie, the X TV series has the ability to be a much more faithful direct adaptation of the original manga story and, as a result, has met with great praise from fans.<\/p>\n<p>Pioneer will begin releasing both the X: Yochou OAV and TV series in America this September.  There is still no American distribution license for the X<sup>2<\/sup> OAV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is X only a manga? I know that there was an X movie made, but is there a television series of X?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}