Romeo x Juliet

[Munsu]

So here it is, the Japanese anime adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Series should start at some point in 2007, I think early. It's a series done by GONZO, and they are usually pretty good, so hopefully this series will deliver even though I'm not a fan of the Romeo and Juliet story.


Count Paris, a young nobleman, talks to Capulet about marrying his fourteen-year-old daughter, Juliet. Capulet demurs, citing the girl`s tender age, and invites him to attract the attention of Juliet during a ball that the family is to hold that night. Meanwhile Juliet`s mother tries to persuade her young daughter to accept Paris` wooing during their coming ball. Juliet is not inspired by the idea of marrying Paris — in fact, she admits to not really having considered marriage at all. But, being a dutiful daughter, she accedes to her mother`s wishes. This scene also introduces Juliet`s nurse, the comic relief of the play, who recounts a bawdy anecdote about Juliet at great length and with much repetition.

In the meantime, Montague and his wife fret to their nephew Benvolio about their son Romeo, who has long been moping for reasons unknown to them. Benvolio promises Montague that he will try to determine the cause. Benvolio queries Romeo and finds that his melancholy has its roots in his unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline (an unseen character). Romeo is infatuated but laments that she will not "ope her lap to saint-seducing gold." Perhaps most frustrating to Romeo is the fact that Rosaline "will not be hit with Cupid`s arrow/ She hath Diane`s wit". In other words, it`s not that she finds Romeo himself objectionable, but that she has foresworn to marry at all (she has vowed not to fall in love, and to die a virgin). Benvolio tries to snap Romeo`s ruler, to no avail: despite the good-natured taunts of his fellows, including the witty nobleman Mercutio (who gives his well known Queen Mab speech), Romeo resolves to attend the masquerade at the Capulet house, relying on not being spotted in his costume, in the hopes of meeting up with Rosaline.

Romeo attends the ball as planned, but falls for Juliet as soon as he sees her and quickly forgets Rosaline. Juliet is instantly taken by Romeo, and the two youths proclaim their love for one another with their "love sonnet" in which Romeo compares himself to a pilgrim and Juliet to the saint which is the object of his pilgrimage.


http://www.romejuli.jp/
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4832
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7087

[TruthofMistake]

Mmm, I can't wait for this. Basilisk kind of reminded me of this but with more of a focus on action then on drama. Glad were going to get the real thing =)

[Darth Zin]

^ i don't want to be reminded of basilisk, series was very good but sad and left a few scars, but i didn't see this on Anidb's calendar then i see why, thnx for the info Budweineken, i have all my alerts on Anidb.net :)

[Munsu]

A trailer is out, and the anime looks really good... look's like it'll have a lot of action.

http://www.romejuli.jp/g_move.html

[?igma]

This seems to become one kick-ass anime :) I'll keep an eye on it.

[Lucifus]

Though I don't remember Romeo jumping off 20 foot high buildings with sword, cape and his party mask, Looks dang good. Definatly wanna check it out.

[Munsu]

I think this is the same trailer shown on the site, but here's for your download convenience for those that have trouble streaming video:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/i7jmuw

[Munsu]

Umai episode 1:
http://depthstrike.com/~umai/torrent.php/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_01_%5BH.264%5D%5BED5CA47 B%5D.mkv.torrent

[animus]

Hm, there's a huge problem in making an adaptation by such a popular, widely known, and common classic story. Almost everyone knows how it's going to end, unless they diverge and alter it. If they don't, the only interesting thing is in what way are they going to end it.

But watching it, it seems the classic romeo and juliet is just a general backdrop or a skeleton in order to build it on. There's a buncha plot differences already, Montague's in domination? Juliet a warrior? Shakespeare under the guise of just "William" himself plays a role in the story. Well, I guess you can tell from just the intro, that it wasn't meant to be a carbon copy rendition. Then again, that wouldn't be very interesting if it was a complete copy would it? Those things aside, the series is going to be a pretty interesting one probably. Good first episode, too bad it introduced names that I can't remember who they were from the original story besides Romeo, Juliet, and Mercutio due to not reading it in so long.

[Kraco]

Yeah, it should be more interesting this way. And the first episode didn't look bad at all.

[Chaos]

Yeah, it should be more interesting this way. And the first episode didn't look bad at all.

Yeah, I agree. Does anyone know if this is airing in HD?. Oh and I think Umai did a pretty good job subbing the first episode.

[animus]

Episode 2 h264 by umai (http://depthstrike.com/%7Eumai/torrent.php/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_02_%5BH.264%5D%5BE82F005 A%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 2 XviD by umai (http://depthstrike.com/%7Eumai/torrent.php/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_02_%5BXviD%5D%5B32E5E730 %5D.mkv.torrent)

Good episode, this is definetely a series that'll do quite well. So far, I liked the sweet pre-relationship meetings that Romeo and Juliet have had.

[Shadow Skill]

Ya, looks like a good series to be watching. Watched both episodes and enjoyed them. :)

[Roxy]

this series is def looking good so far. makes me wonder though, how are the capulets supposed to make a comeback, there's like 10 people backing them.

[AsclepiusZ]

Episode 3 XviD by Umai (http://depthstrike.com/~umai/torrent.php/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_03_%5BXviD%5D%5BC155BB75 %5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 3 H264 by Umai (http://depthstrike.com/~umai/torrent.php/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_03_%5BH.264%5D%5B4769F34 5%5D.mkv.torrent)

[Yukimura]

Man this show is turning out great, watch it you fools! Part of the suspense is that you knida know what will happen but you don't know how they're going to go about retelling the story. It's got great visuals, good music and interesting charachters. Watch it!!!!

[animus]

I should probably pick it up again, stopped after episode 3, was a bit bored of it, but seeing your comment might compel me to watch it again.

[Yukimura]

RxJ - 08 - [umai] (http://depthstrike.com/~umai/torrent.php/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_08_%5BXviD%5D%5BB8A02DA2 %5D.mkv.torrent)

Someone else must be watching this, it's quite good. Tybalt has just been revealed and he is as badass as ever. When you compare him to glorified nancy boy Romeo it's a wonder how he'll manage to not get killed by him. Mercutio's role has been fairly small but that could change. The story's delivery so far has been excellent, plenty of twists and the love parts aren't too sappy as you'd think they'd be.

[shinta|hikari]

Im watching this as well, and is one of the episode releases I look forward to. It definitely has a nice twist added to the basic story, and the characters are well fleshed out. The fantasy elements dont seem out of place either.

[Kraco]

Luck favors the innocent and the suffering. But maybe only for the moment for Luck is a capricious hostess indeed.

Episode 9 - umai (http://depthstrike.com/~umai/torrent.php/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_09_%5BH.264%5D%5BFB303AE E%5D.mkv.torrent)
Episode 10 - umai (http://depthstrike.com/~umai/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_10_%5BH.264%5D%5B30F9EC9 5%5D.mkv.torrent)

[Yukimura]

Romeo x Juliet - 11 - [umai] (http://depthstrike.com/~umai/%5Bumai%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_11_%5BH.264%5D%5BAF4CA4A 3%5D.mkv.torrent)

Romantic Art: One Thousand Blushes Technique!!!

[David75]

I'm bumping that one up, cause a number of eps have been out... and this thread wasn't updated.
I'm not sure I'm gonna watch this, that's why I'd like this thread to be a little lively, to be sure this show is still as promising as before.

I admitt I don't want to be deceived on this one, I even read Romeo and Juliet in plain old english... and that took me quite a long time... so I don't want to spoil this.

So let me know ;)

c u

[Yukimura]

So far it's been pretty far from the play. It's more inspired by the play then adapted from it. It's been pretty good so far I think. Stuff happeens, hearts are turned around, but the leads stay hopeful throughout, with Romeo being a bit too cheery for my tastes, but he does work his ass off to try and make the world around him as nice as he says it can be. I'd say forget about the play as you watch it and just think of it as a story with some of the same charachter names and themes as the play but completely separate from it.

[Board of Command]

I don't even know why they bothered to base this on characters from the play. Aside from the names, the two are completely different. They could have used other character names and slightly adjusted the plot, and nobody in the world would be able to tell it's inspired by the Shakespearean play.

[Yukimura]

But then they wouldn't have gotten the audience of people hoping to see a faithful adaptation of the play. I doubt I'd have looked at this show if it was described exactly as it is in its summaries but with different character and place names and called something like Love & Duty.

EDIT: But I'm glad I did start watching it because it's an interesting show in it's own right and worth seeing.

[David75]

Ok... with those details, that I was aware of, I wonder if I'll give it a try.

To me Romeo & Juliet is a bit of a myth. And I don't want anything to spoil it.

Geez, it's difficult to fight against curiosity though...

[Munsu]

I need to catch up, but Shinsen dropped it because they received a C&D:
http://www.shinsen-subs.org/

Hopefully umai will continue it.

[shinta|hikari]

@David - Ive seen the whole thing, and this story is really different from the original. Only the names and the very basic premise is the same. This is definitely worth trying. I doubt it will ruin anything from Shakespeare for you.

[ian_sanzo]

I envy you Shinta for being able to see RxJ's ending. D@mn, i really should start learning jap. Anyways, i hope someone out there will continue this series especially if its near its end.

[Yukimura]

http://umai.keepsilence.org/
Umai has officially dropped finally (It's kind of annoying that it took this long to let people
know, but whatever I really don't care that much since they did good work).

Lukewarm consolation prize:
Romeo x Juliet - 22 - [Shakespeare] (http://www.datorrents.com/download.asp?id=27579&name=%5BShakespeare%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_22_%5BABD703 10%5D.mkv.torrent)

The Good: It's RxJ 22 with encoding that makes me suspicious about umai's 'drop'
The Bad: the subs seem to be ALL CAPS which is extremely irritating and made it unwatchable for me. I have mkvextracted the ass file but I can't figure out how to make them not all caps (the text is not in caps in the sub file from what I can tell). If anyone knows anything about ass files and how the all caps state can be altered please let us know.

EDIT: I got the subs changed to plain old Arial with normal capitalization. Near the top of the .ass file where it says Default, change Alberta to Arial (or another font of your choice and you're set). If anyone wants my edited .ass file just pm me.

[ShinobiNeko]

Glad its being continued by someone and I do agree with the above post..kind of suspicious in terms of the format that it isn't Umai..seems likely it's them, with just a different name (which I don't mind) - always sucks when anime is pulled when it's close to the end.

[ian_sanzo]

Does anybody here have the site for shakespeare's site? i wana know if episode 23 has been released yet.

[Yukimura]

Romeo x Juliet - 23 - [Shakespeare] (http://www.datorrents.com/download.asp?id=27965&name=%5BShakespeare%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_23_%5B1DEADA 55%5D.mkv.torrent)

I'm pretty sure Shakespeare doesn't have a site since all the subbers of RxJ got C&D's. Just cruise anime torrent sites periodically and look for their releases.

[ian_sanzo]

Just got eps 24 for romeo x juliet. But there are no subtitles! Shakespeare released it. I need help on this one guys.

[NM]

Um, if you got the Shakespeare version, then there are subtitles. The only line they didnt show a subtitle for was when Romeo shouted out "Juliet!!!!!!" in the very beginning. Keep
watching, the subtitles are there.

I don't want to say anything about it yet since I don't know how many people have seen the last episode but all I can say is that RxJ was a great series to watch. I enjoyed this show from beginning to end. :)

[Yukimura]

Romeo x Juliet - 24 - [Shakespeare] (http://www.datorrents.com/download.asp?id=28625&name=%5BShakespeare%5D_Romeo_x_Juliet_24_%5B9C1427 75%5D.mkv.torrent) It definately has subs.

Another beautiful series gone. The final out come seemed a little weird, but they stuck to their vows "Together Forever" no matter what the cost (even if that cost would be the whole world they knew). I'm glad this got finished off. Props to Shakespeare and umai for bring it to us.

[ian_sanzo]

I'm using vlc but there really is no subtitles. I'll try watching it from another player.

[Barcode120x]

Just finished watching the 5th episode and so far I think it's great. I think that it's good that it's very different from the actual play. I like the fantasy stuff they added to it and it's good they didn't add any type of super magical powers. Can't wait to finish it :D

By the way, Shinsen-Subs has a batch torrent for the whole series.

[xXAshuraXx]

finished the whole series! it was a good twist to the whole plot of Romeo and Juliet... :)

[David75]

Since I didn't have anything interresting to watch, I tried that show.

Well, I can't say I liked it.
I gues the annoying thing was that flying land and Escalus. It did totally screw things for me. Pegasi also, for technical reasons.

Also, it seems that animation wasn't that consistent throughout the show.

They had a good setting, and spoiled it in my opinion. Some characters were worth a better overall show.