Kamui Shiroh
Fuma Monou
Kotori Monou
The Seven Angels, the Dragons of the Earth
The Seven Seals, the Dragons of Heaven
Nataku's Shrine
X has to be one of the most depressing animes I (Kachi) have ever seen, and yet it's certainly one of the most amazing. It is a story of love, death, the struggle for hope and the struggle for the Earth, and it may change your life, or at least make you cry (if you're a softy like me).
When I put in the video I was expecting some appalling American dub where all the characters speak with a Californian accent and the speech itself is changed to fit in with the ideas of some narrow-minded men in suits (Kachi has an authority 'thing'), and yet, I was wrong. The seiyuu are obviously skilled, and the speech is wonderful to just listen to. Though the actual animation is not to be discounted, because those wonderful people called CLAMP have done it again. It's fluid and impeccable, and the eyes can be so intense...
Anyhow, enough of my enthusiasm, here's the film:
The story is about a young man named Kamui Shiroh, and his destiny. When he was younger, his best friends were Fuma and Kotori Momou, who are brother and sister. Slowly his friendship for Kotori blossomed into love, and when he returns to Tokyo in 1999 after a long absence she is, to me, apprehensive but happy. But it seems that he has returned for a purpose, that destiny has something special in store for him. His mother had died, and told him that he has to return to Tokyo. It appears that Kamui has to make a choice important to the fate of the world...should he become a Dragon of the Earth, and join in the quest to destroy it and start anew, or should he become a Dragon of Heaven, and fight to protect the very world that the Dragons of the Earth want to destroy?
He becomes a Dragon of Heaven after he finds that becoming a Dragon of the Earth could put Kotori in danger, but it is soon revealed that she must die no matter what choice he makes. But the choice affects his childhood friend Fuma, who is occasionally referred to as 'the other Kamui'. Whatever Kamui becomes, Fuma is destined to become the opposite, the other side of the coin.
