X is the name belonging manga created by CLAMP, but was also made into a anime film and anime series. There was a music media made with power metal group X Japan using images from this title. This title can be also named as X/1999. X deals with the end of days, the year being 1999. A young esper, after six years of absence, returns to apocalyptic Tokyo to face is destiny as the man who has in his hands the fate of humanity. Dark as it it, it deals with various ways of the end of the world, taken from popular secular and religious lore, but with their own mythos. It's generally action paced, and increasingly graphic due to its violent nature seen in X.
This title was released as a manga,with the anime film following after. Eventually, X/1999 was made into an anime TV series, created in the studio Madhouse, and published by Manga Entertainment in 2001, the same time the OVA was created. Funimation licensed the OVA as well as the TV anime, called X TV. I saw this and was stunned by it, though much like Witchblade, the ending didn't meet my fancy, though it ended the worst of scenarios. X gets a 6.5. While it was indeed interesting, it was too dark and bloody for my tastes. It speaks of the end of the world, but in a more... fictional way. Still, I sort of liked it, but it's not good to watch if you're not the type that can bear excessive violence.
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