I just recently finished the anime (Japanese animation) adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Released early in 2007, I only managed to get to watching it courtesy of a very busy and challenging year and of course, now the advent of the summer holidays. I'm glad i left this series to watch when I had nothing else on. And i have to say, it's THE BEST adaptation of Shakespeare's play I've seen. Every previous adaptation pales in comparison to this anime. While set in a semi-realistic world (with the exceptions a floating city, the existence of pegasi and some strange tree and its respective caretaker) with a real heavy dystopiatic (<-- is this even a word?) theme, the entire story doesn't detract too much from the original work of Shakespeare. Granted, it's still to some extent a tragic love story marred by familial fued (though not your garden variety familial fued)
IN ANY CASE, for all anime lovers out there who doesn't know the existence of this series, I SUGGEST YOU HUNT IT DOWN and watch it ASAP.
In Shakespeare's original work Romeo and Juliet both died by killing themselves which in my opinion, despite the context / circumstance in which they did it, was a really horrendously stupid way for a couple loving each other to die. While in Romeo x Juliet the ending is not dissimilar, it's at least a whole lot better. I've hinted too much about the ending already in my latter sentence so I'll shut up and let all of you watch and find out yourselves.
Personal enjoyment rating: 9/10
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