The Japanese X-Men opening sequence
 

For those of you who have not seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/w/X-men-Anime...=x-men%20anime

Basically, when they ran the 90's X-Men cartoon over there they replaced the American opening sequence with the Shuki Levi theme with something more anime-ish...and with some goofy hair metal.

It's actually quite cool, animation-wise.

The loading is kinda choppy so you're better off pausing it first and then just waiting for the thing to finish otherwise it'll keep freezing and it'll be annoying.

Anyway, CRY FOR THE MOOOOOOOON!!!!!

Darn.

Both this and the 1980s' X-Men pilot episode had some of the best animation Japan could have ever produced for a stateside release.

Whoa, Magneto looks really badass in that first scene of his. Thanks for finding this!

...and I still don't like youtube.

Funny that Magento is summoning those alien "Family" members, they only appeared a grand total of once, and they are'nt magenetic. Magneto was also a de facto good guy half of the time before turning badass again in "Sanctuary"

As a kid I had one of those creatures as an action figure, think they are called the Brood. Very nice find, I like the appearence of Cable and Omega Red... kinda random characters.

Pretty awesome, but totally random choice of characters for them to be fighting with... and Wolverine can fly :-?

Man, They look like they came straight out of a comic book. It's a shame the show itself was never animated this way, 'cause they never looked better (On TV, that is).

Incredible find, Dr Spengler. :)

BTW, is there any way to save this?

That's like one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

I don't think so. At least I haven't found a way. And that's just what annoys me with Youtube and Google-Videos. I prefer to download videos, then watch them and then delete them again. That way I don't have to deal with streaming. Thatvideosite.com is really good when it comes to that.

You could look for it in your Temporary Internet Files folder (start/run/local settings) if it saved as a video file while you streamed it.

Thing is, those aren't videofiles. They were converted to flash-things. And they're not in my Temp files.

Yeah, Magneto summoning the Brood to do his bidding was a little out there. But I doubt the Japanese knew any better. And the Brood only appeared in one episode, as mentioned by Zarius, and they weren't even CALLED "the Brood" and they didn't even look quite right.

So it was nice to see some decetly animated Brood monsters. And it was really nice seeing them get their heads chopped off.

I remember they used to play this as the ending sequence for the ninties X-men toon on UPN in the mid ninties. They didn't have the Japanese lyrics though.

Good find DrSpengler, it brings back memories.

Downloadable version:

http://www.isparkdesign.com/Japanese...g_-_Rising.avi

http://www.geocities.com/howdysnacky/x-pimp.jpg

Just thought this image was funny.

hahahaha!!!

That came to mind at that part also.

wow that was actually pretty cool, much better then the x-men cartoons we get here.

I actually quite liked the American opening sequence with the Shuki Levy theme (he's a very underrated cartoon musician). It wasn't quite as dark as the Japanese one but Akom's animation was good and it was choreographed quite well.

That being said, I STILL think the Japanese one was cooler. But I liked em both.

Yes both were good. I just downloaded it adn watched it. It was really good.

haha.. I was going to say this, but I wasn't sure if I would be the only one with that impression. Its so comforting that other people think like I do!

I thought the opening was interesting, i'm just curious... did Beast ever fight in the series? I don't remember him ever actually fighting.