Romeo x Juliet

[Yukimura]

Romeo x Juliet - 11 - [umai]

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]

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]

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] 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

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.